Months after telling the American people that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency had no access to Americans’ sensitive Social Security data, the Trump administration has finally admitted in court that DOGE illegally accessed and agreed to share that data. According to a filing by the Department of Justice last month, an advocacy group looking “to overturn election results in certain states” made contact with “two members of SSA’s DOGE Team with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired” and one of them signed a “‘Voter Data Agreement,’ in his capacity as an SSA employee, with the advocacy group.”
The Trump administration allowed what may be the most reckless breach of public trust in Social Security’s history.
Under the guise of “cutting costs,” the Trump administration allowed what may be the most reckless breach of public trust in Social Security’s history. A whistleblower from Social Security had already said during the summer that DOGE had transferred Americans data to a vulnerable server and that the team’s actions constituted “violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and safety.” Then last month we got the government’s acknowledgement that the data may have been shared with a group working to overturn election results.
While Americans may think that the “DOGE” task force Elon Musk oversaw has been disbanded, nothing could be further from the truth. He’s gone, but DOGE staffers remain inside the Social Security Administration, in position to access Americans’ most sensitive personal information, including birth dates, home addresses, work histories, and more.
That is why I am calling for any DOGE employees responsible for the reported agreement with the election-denial group to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law—and for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to stop blocking our inquiries, legislation and calls for investigations. Protecting unvetted insiders who appear to have broken the law and certainly broke the public trust is shameful and a betrayal of their oath.
When you grow up in a project like I did, you learn how important it is to stand up to a bully. I will not stand by as Musk, President Donald Trump, or any of their MAGA allies raid the data compiled by the Social Security Administration or diminish the benefits that Americans have earned over a lifetime of work. If Republicans refuse to defend their constituents from this unprecedented overreach, then the American people’s demand for accountability will only grow louder.
Social Security isn’t the only system being targeted. The Trump regime also reportedly granted unprecedented access to taxpayer information at the Treasury Department to Peter Thiel’s data-mining company, Palantir.
These efforts are not isolated. They form a coordinated attempt to breach systems that safeguard Americans’ economic security.
Though Trump insisted he would never touch Social Security, Musk called the program a “Ponzi scheme.”
To understand what’s happening, follow the money.
Before Trump took office in 2025, he enlisted Musk to identify $2 trillion in cuts, and he sent DOGE into federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Though Trump insisted he would never touch Social Security, Musk called the program a “Ponzi scheme,” and he said, ““Most of the federal spending is entitlements. That’s the big one to eliminate.”
The reason they’re targeting it is simple. The Social Security Trust Funds hold $2.7 trillion of Americans’ earned benefits, the largest pool of public capital in the federal government.
For the billionaire class advising Trump, that fund is not a safety net, it is a target.
DOGE’s actions follow a familiar playbook: Break the system, declare it unworkable, and then argue that privatization is the only solution.
Career experts inside Social Security were pushed aside within weeks of Trump taking office in 2025 because they refused to hand over protected records. At the time, I warned that DOGE had nothing to do with government efficiency and everything to do with ensuring the billionaire class controls the levers of power.








