‘My opinion is that this is the tip of the iceberg,’ Antonio Gracias says.
A member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in an interview this week that the task force has discovered illegal immigrants who have voted in U.S. elections.
“We have found [illegal immigrants] who actually voted … we already had three arrests in Florida and one indictment,” DOGE official Antonio Gracias, an investor who is worth around $2.2 billion and who also founded Valor Equity Partners, said on the All-In podcast.
Earlier this year, Gracias was tapped by DOGE and tech billionaire Elon Musk to look into Social Security records and other government data, Musk said in an event last month alongside Gracias. Musk currently serves as an adviser to President Donald Trump and has been the de facto head of DOGE, although his time in the government is limited by his status as a special government employee.
“Yes, this is actually true,” Gracias said on Wednesday, responding to a question about whether DOGE has discovered whether illegal immigrants were registered to vote in U.S. elections. He cited DOGE’s efforts in sampling “a handful of states,” their voter rolls, and noted that those records were cross-referenced with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) investigatory arm.
DOGE found there were illegal immigrants “registered to vote” and those “people have actually voted,” Gracias said.
Those people were able to register because they were given a Social Security number, Gracias said.
“My opinion is that this is the tip of the iceberg,” he said, referring to their findings on voter fraud. “How big the iceberg is, I don’t know.”
Trump established DOGE in January in a bid to root out fraud, waste, and abuse inside the federal government. The task force has a deadline to complete its work by July 4, 2026, but Musk said this month that it may remain for the president’s entire second term.
While the task force has gone from agency to agency, issuing recommendations, it has been blocked in court orders from accessing data and records in several federal entities, including the Social Security Administration, the Treasury Department, and others. Earlier in May, the Trump administration submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to permit DOGE to access Social Security’s systems after a U.S. district judge earlier this year blocked the organization from doing so.
