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riversedge

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Fri Apr 18, 2025, 04:45 AM Yesterday

Ranking House Oversight member says DOGE has created 'chaos' at the Social Security Administration

Unless Republicans in Congress stop Musk and his gang of thieves, this will continue.



Ranking House Oversight member says DOGE has created 'chaos' at the Social Security Administration

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Story by ggoodwin@businessinsider.com (Grace Eliza Goodwin) • 13h •


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DOGE's handling of sensitive data may have broken multiple laws, Rep. Gerald Connolly said.
A ranking member of the House Oversight Committee wrote in a new letter that DOGE has unleashed "chaos" at the Social Security Administration, putting Americans' privacy, security, and access to benefits at risk.

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In a Thursday letter to Michelle Anderson, the SSA's Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Democratic Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia urged the agency to investigate DOGE's actions and access to SSA data.

"The whistleblower information obtained by the Committee, combined with public reporting, paints a picture of chaos at SSA as DOGE is rapidly, haphazardly, and unlawfully working to implement changes that could disrupt Social Security payments and expose Americans' sensitive data," Connolly wrote in the letter.

One of Connolly's major concerns about DOGE's actions at the SSA is its attempt to combine sensitive data held separately by multiple federal agencies — including the SSA, the Internal Revenue Service, Health and Human Services — into "a single cross-agency master database." Connolly said the Committee has information that indicates DOGE "is carrying out its work in a manner that disregards important cybersecurity and privacy considerations, potentially in violation of the law."

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Ranking House Oversight member says DOGE has created 'chaos' at the Social Security Administration (Original Post) riversedge Yesterday OP
Now that's a strongly worded letter. (Using my best Crocodile Dundee voice). CincyDem Yesterday #1
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