'Would you let me continue?' CNN host frustrates GOP lawmaker with fact check to his face

Texas Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), who sits on the DOGE oversight subcommittee, was thrown for a loop Thursday when CNN's Boris Sanchez challenged him on his Social Security claims.

Sanchez asked, "I do wonder how they're going to get to $1 trillion without cutting into those entitlement programs. Can you guarantee that there won't be a reduction in benefits?"

Gill said one way DOGE will make a dent in that $1 trillion is through removing dead people from the Social Security roles.

"President Trump laid it out in his... joint address the other day, that we've got people on the Social Security rolls that are listed as being over 150 years old," Gill began.

"That was a coding error, sir," Sanchez interjected. "That was proven to be a coding error. Elon Musk acknowledged that those numbers were off."

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"Would you let me continue? Because I want to address that," Gill said.

Sanchez let him speak.

"One of the things [Musk] laid out was how illogical the federal bureaucracy is. That we've got multiple federal programs and agencies that are not communicating with each other. So, the problem with the Social Security entries is that you can identify people who are dead, who are still receiving unemployment benefits, for instance, that shouldn't be. And you could solve that simply by allowing [agencies] to communicate with each other."

Gill said this miscommunication has gone on "because we've allowed the bureaucracy to metastasize with virtually no oversight. And we're finally getting oversight and accountability back to Washington. That's something that everybody, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, should support."

Sanchez remarked, "I do want to just point out for our viewers the allegation that there are 300-year-old people receiving paychecks from the government has not been verified by DOGE. It's believed that that was as a result of a coding error. CNN tried to verify the information that was provided and received no response."

Gill countered, "They did find those listings in there. And to your point, if there is a coding error, that is precisely my point."

"Sure, but that doesn't mean that people are receiving checks," Sanchez shot back. "That doesn't mean that they're receiving — that doesn't mean that there's a 150-year-old person who is receiving checks, sir, to be clear. They haven't verified that those people received any payments, those theoretical people."

Watch the clip below via CNN.