Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have American's Personal Data
Summary:
Donald Trump’s interim Social Security chief suggested Thursday night he will effectively turn off the agency that manages the essential safety net program for seniors and the disabled, if Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal information and data of hundreds of millions of Americans, based on a judge’s order.
“My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,” said Lee Dudek, acting Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner, arguing the order was too broad, according to Bloomberg News. “As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems,” he said, adding: “Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.”
Dudek’s threat to block SSA employees from using the agency’s IT systems — a move that could halt Social Security payments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order in a case brought by the AFL-CIO labor union. The order bars Social Security Administration officials from allowing DOGE, including Musk, and the SSA’s DOGE team to access personally identifiable information. It also directs Musk and DOGE to delete from their possession all non-anonymized personal data, and bars them from having access to SSA computers or code.
Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA had likely violated administrative and privacy laws when it gave DOGE “unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses.”
She added that the “defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.”
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That’s the move that will send people over the edge. What a ridiculously stupid administration
Unfortunately it won’t. Too many people didn’t learn, and learn from, history. They’ll watch as their freedoms are eroded away in the name of “making America great,” and then cry about how everything got so bad as if they had nothing to do with it.
I think you underestimate the rage of old white people.
I dunno, killing entitlements is the only thing that seems to energize a lot of them.
Y’all, it would make me ecstatic to be completely wrong with this hot take. I guess it’s a combination of my lack of faith in the citizenship to give enough of a shit, and my lack of faith in our government to listen.
Take away SS, and you will leave many old people with nothing left to lose, and many of them own guns, and have had military training. In addition, ANY of them that kill governmental officials will be hailed as heros, the same as Luigi.
I'm convinced they want civil eruption to declare martial law, call off elections, and seal the deal.
I’m convinced that when that happens everyone will allow it like they continue to do.
If they do, we will have reached the point that there is nothing left to lose except our lives.
I say let them do it.
The goal is Martial Law and the suspension of elections. He needs to preserve his Congressional majorities.
Its still too early. If he tries it now, there is too much time to fight about it between now and the election in 2026.
The summer/ fall of 2026 is going to get really ugly and violent, and he will suspend elections about a month before, in early October.
If he does, we will have HELLoween on October 31, 2026.
I’m reminded of this every time someone gives an ultimatum with Trump.
They will blame Democrats, saying that wokeism is preventing DOGE from running things efficiently, or something. And people will lap it up and get angry at the wrong people.
I don't think they will this time. Republican representatives have already had to stop holding town halls because their districts are so pissed off at Musk and DOGE.
Do it Trump. We fucking dare you.
The days where they could masquerade as this are gone.
They are fascists. Period.
We've already seen how these types of scenarios play out:
This is not an argument for doing nothing, just a forewarning to brace for undue blowback.
We’ll witness the first president to be killed by aarp death squads
From your keyboard to fate’s ears. Him and everyone pushing this Project 2025 bs.
Reminds me of that south park episode.
They've done that...
It's just not how he wants it to be run...
Meanwhile, Dudek was fired for disobeying SSA as a mid level staffer in favor of DOGE, so trump made him the head:
https://abc17news.com/politics/national-politics/cnn-us-politics/2025/02/22/how-a-mid-level-staffer-rose-to-oversee-the-social-security-administration-within-days/
Do it, pussy.
Can you not degrade pussy by comparing it to Trump? Thanks
Sorry i can't of a degrading word that isn't lower than republican... No offense to pussys.
These fuckers holding our government hostage…
Do it, see what happens. You wanna actually see a million people overrun the Whitehouse security? This is how you do it. Martial law ain't gonna stop half the country driving into Washington DC.
If they want to find out what violent revolution looks like, then they can go right ahead and stop social security.
I fear that's exactly what he's trying to do. He wants martial law, civil law gets suspended and military swoops in.
Of course, what happens if instead of calling in the military, he just calls in the military industrial complex. You KNOW we have to have autonomous weaponry by now.
SSS: Stealing Social Security so they can fund the billionaires tax cut
Do it, I'll grab the popcorn.