A district court judge torpedoed the Trump administration’s argument for firing federal workers during the government shutdown, throwing up new legal barriers that may prove difficult for the president’s attorneys to overcome.
A whistleblower who warned our Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE that they were putting American social security data at risk is speaking out.
Charles Borges, then chief data officer for the vast Social Security Administration, was alarmed last summer when he learned that members of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service had copied a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans, including names, birthdays, addresses and more.
The Monday appointment of Frank Bisignano, known for his Wall Street acumen and as an ally to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, as the new IRS CEO is raising concerns about how the agencies will handle taxpayer data between the two of them and other agencies as the Trump administration pushes hard on its priorities.
A report issued Thursday accuses the Department of Government Efficiency of putting millions of Americans’ personal information in an unsecured cloud server.
“This report concludes that DOGE is jeopardizing Americans’ most sensitive data, while its employees operate under a layer of secrecy that shields them from meaningful oversight and accountability,” the report’s authors wrote.
There’s some good news related to the Trump administration’s concerted attack on the Social Security Administration: Thus far, it doesn’t appear to have significantly affected the delivery of benefits. Checks are still going out and payments into beneficiaries’ bank accounts are still arriving on time. Beyond that, however, the system is going to hell.
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.
In the wake of revelations that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials employed by the Social Security Administration (SSA) put the Social Security information of over 300 million Americans at risk by placing a live copy of this data in a vulnerable cloud environment that circumvented standard oversight, whistleblower Charles Borges, the Chief Data Officer (CDO) at the SSA, has resigned.
Fmr. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss DOGE employees unprecedented “pirating away” of Americans’ Social Security data and how it could lead to the “largest class action in American history.”
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