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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, the largest and fastest growing conservative youth activist organization in the country with over 250,000 student members, over 150 full-time staff, and a presence on over 2,000 high school and college campuses nationwide. Charlie is also the Chairman of Students for Trump, which aims to activate one million new college voters on campuses in battleground states in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. His social media reaches over 100 million people per month and according to Axios, he is one of the "top 10 most engaged" Twitter handles in the world. He is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” which regularly ranks among the top news shows on Apple podcast charts.

Charlie Kirk Exposes Underground Mine Where Federal Retirement Paperwork Is Processed in Pennsylvania

Charlie Kirk reveals a shocking discovery made by Elon Musk in the Oval Office: federal retirement paperwork is still processed manually in an underground limestone mine near Pittsburgh. Only 10,000 federal workers can retire per month because the limiting factor is the speed of a mine shaft elevator that transports physical paperwork. Kirk examines how the federal retirement system has remained frozen since 1947 despite half a century of computer technology, costing over $100 per retiring employee and taking months to process. He highlights additional revelations from the Department of Government Efficiency, including Social Security payments to people listed as 150 years old and payments with no identifying information, as President Trump and Elon Musk work to eliminate waste and potential kickbacks in government contracts.

February 13, 2025

The Underground Mine Processing Federal Retirements

The federal government's inefficiency has reached extraordinary levels. Elon Musk revealed in the Oval Office that federal retirement paperwork is processed in an underground limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, just a few miles north of Butler. The limiting factor for how many federal workers can retire each month—currently capped at 10,000—is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move paperwork up and down. When the elevator breaks down, retirement processing comes to a complete halt.

Hundreds of people work in this former limestone mine, hundreds of feet underground, managing millions of pages of physical paper stored in thousands of file cabinets and manila folders. The entire federal retirement process remains manual, written down on paper, calculated by hand, and physically transported through mine shafts.

A System Frozen Since 1947

Personal computers have existed for half a century, yet the federal retirement system operates as if it's still 1947. The Washington Post reported on this issue a decade ago, interviewing a Reagan appointee who was shocked the system wasn't computerized in 1981. Forty-four years later, nothing has changed.

This antiquated system costs taxpayers more than $100 per retiring federal employee and takes several months just to process the paperwork. Kirk argues this represents how frozen in time Washington DC has become, and why the Department of Government Efficiency is necessary.

The Real Scandal Beyond the Mine

According to Musk's findings, the mine shaft itself isn't the real scandal. The deeper issue is how government departments operate on a principle of complaint minimization rather than fiscal responsibility. Elon Musk explained that everything is geared toward approving all payments because approved payments don't generate complaints, while denied payments do. Fraudsters complain the loudest and fastest, creating perverse incentives.

The system has massive accountability problems:

  • Payments lack categorization codes, making them essentially blank checks that cannot be reconciled
  • Comment fields are blank, with no explanation for why payments were made
  • A "do not pay" list exists for terrorist organizations and known fraudsters, but can take up to a year for an organization to get added
  • Even once organizations are on the list, the list is frequently not used

Social Security's Shocking Revelations

A cursory examination of the Social Security Administration revealed what Kirk calls a "smoking nuclear weapon." Elon Musk discovered that Social Security has people on record who are 150 years old receiving payments. Musk quipped that these individuals should either be in the Guinness Book of World Records or are probably dead.

Additionally, numerous Social Security payments are being made where there is no identifying information whatsoever. The absence of any identifying details raises obvious questions about fraud and waste.

President Trump's Theory on Kickbacks

President Trump stated his belief that many government contracts involve kickbacks, saying nobody could be stupid enough to give out some of these contracts without receiving something in return. He emphasized that exposing this fraud and abuse was a major reason he got elected, along with securing borders and strengthening the military.

Trump expressed hope that the court system will allow his administration to do what needs to be done, noting that finding fraud and abuse was part of his electoral mandate.

The Call for Young Tech Talent

Vice President JD Vance spoke at the AI Summit in Paris, France, emphasizing the administration's desire to bring talented young people from the tech sector into government to modernize systems that haven't been updated since World War II. He made clear that the administration centers American workers in AI policy and refuses to view AI as purely disruptive technology that will automate away jobs.

Vance stated the administration will fight for policies ensuring AI makes workers more productive, with workers reaping rewards through higher wages, better benefits, and safer, more prosperous communities.

Fighting for Taxpayers

Kirk addressed working Americans directly—plumbers, hairdressers, welders, teachers—thanking them for their hard work and acknowledging that their taxpayer dollars are being wasted. He positioned President Trump as someone who cares about everyday workers and is deploying Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to save money every single day.

Kirk frames Trump not as a threat to democracy, but as the fulfillment of democratic norms and principles—the manifestation that people get what they vote for, with no secret agendas. He characterizes the effort as going after the nerve center of the regime and deep state.

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