White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt scolded the “fake news” media for, what she said, are its attempts to frighten people into believing that President Donald Trump’s administration is going to take people’s Social Security from them.

“And now you see the Democrat party and the mainstream media spiraling out of control about a very simple promise, rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse from our federal bureaucracy. This is a promise President Trump campaigned on, he is now delivering on it, and I’ve been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington D.C. swamp who are trying to fearmonger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard-earned tax dollars and their hard-earned social security checks. So I want to set the record straight on your show tonight, Sean, and I’m very grateful for the opportunity to do so,” the press secretary said to Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the DOJ team to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration. They haven’t dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent social security payments. And so their goal in going into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things,” Leavitt continued.

“Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them. Number two, to identify payments that are going to deceased people who are no longer living and should no longer be receiving that money. And number three, to protect the integrity of this system for hardworking Americans who have been paying into it their entire lives,” she told Hannity.

“So rest assured to all of the people watching your show tonight, if you paid into the system, honestly, you will continue to receive your social security checks. Do not buy into the lies from the legacy fake news media who are trying to fear you and scare you into believing otherwise. This is what we’ve seen them do about President Trump for years with every promise that he has made, and he’s going in there to protect your hard-earned money. That is the ultimate goal,” she said.