Musk describes the limestone mine that takes over the pension papers of the federal workers

Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) in Pennsylvania is investigating a limestone mine in which the cost of reducing costs states that retirement of the state is processed manually with a system that could take months.

Musk told the reporters on Tuesday during a performance with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the Mine, when the President prepared to sign an executive regulation on the work of the billionaire, who led Doge.

“And then we are told that this is actually a big anecdote because most people who may be retired in a month,” said Musk.

“We are how, what? Why is that?” It is calculated manually and written on a piece of paper. Then it goes to mine and likes what do you think, a mine? “

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This photo published by Doge on February 11, 2025 shows the old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, where the organization says that around 700 workers are more than 230 feet underground to process around 10,000 applications for old -age provision per month. (Doge/X)

On X wrote Doge that an old limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, operated around 700 workers in the subsoil to process around 10,000 applications per month.

The applications are processed by hand with paper and saved in Manila envelopes and cardboard boxes, said Doge.

This photo of Dogge on February 11, 2025 shows shelves and cardboard boxes that, according to Dodge, use the workers in the underground mines to store federal pension documents. (Doge/X)

Washington Post described the facility in an article from 2014 as the “Sinkhole of Bureaucracy”. At this point, the report states that the total edition for the retirement system was 55.8 million US dollars.

According to the report, several attempts to digitize the system have been carried out since 1987 since 1987. Each attempt largely failed and was finally scrapped. The reported costs of over 130 million US dollars.

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Musk said the facility was founded in 1955 and looks “like a time distortion”. He noticed the slow processing speed, which, according to Doge, can take several months.

Elon Musk mentioned the limestone mine to reporters during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“And then the speed, the limiting factor, the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move is determined how many people can withdraw from the federal government,” said Musk. “And the elevator burns together and sometimes you can’t retire. Doesn’t that sound crazy?”

Musk said the faulty system to “wear manila envelopes to carry boxes in a mine shaft” could be remedied with “practically anything else”.

“This is an example of how at a high level when you say how we increase prosperity that we make people change from roles that are low to negative productivity to high productivity roles,” he said.

In the past few weeks, Democrats have largely criticized the work of Musk and Doge to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in the federal expenditure and to bear more than 2 million staff.

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Musk pushed back and reported on Tuesday that “people voted for a great reform of the government, and that is exactly what people will get.”