Elon Musk Made No Promises
So with Trump’s blessing, he is going after #SocialSecurity
https://steady.substack.com/p/elon-musk-made-no-promises
"With no authority other than #Trump saying he can, #Musk, who has manipulated & bought his way into the system, is cutting 7,000 jobs at #SSA, or 12% of the workforce, and closing more than 40 field offices. Closing those offices is a terrible idea for an agency where getting an in-person appointment is already notoriously difficult."
see above for original main 
Branch 1/
Additions to Table of #DOGE members.
(21 total)
From #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency#Members
01) #DanielAbrahamson, #SeniorAdvisor, #DOT
02) #JustinAimonetti
13) #AshleyBoizelle, Attorney advisor, #GSA
19) #ScottCoulter, #NASA, #SSA
Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data
Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if #Musk & #DOGE can’t access #Americans’ most sensitive #data
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/
"Dudek’s threat to block #SSA employees from using the agency’s #IT systems — a move that could halt #SocialSecurity payments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order"
Republicans are NOT killing your grandparents.
Republicans are MAGA-christian Sacrificing all the people who need social security, SNAP, free school lunch, housing help, etc., to the billionaire-gods patriotically destroying America for Trump.
ABC News: Acting #SocialSecurity chief now says he won't shut down agency after #DOGE ruling
Leland #Dudek, the acting head of the agency, said in a statement Friday he received "clarifying guidance" (from the judge but duh?) about the judge's temporary restraining order related to DOGE activities.
(PREVIOUSLY HE HAD DISTURBINGLY SAID ..)
He continued, “Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency."
#Trump #Musk #SSA #SSDI #SSI
Social Security is on the path to privatization, experts warn, led by Musk’s #DOGE
The steps DOGE is taking could diminish consumer confidence and eventually push the government to hand the program over to the private sector. #SocialSecurity #SSA #USpol #Musk 1/3
@GottaLaff
Judge Kicks DOGE Out of Social Security in Huge Blow to Elon Musk
Musk has been working to gut the Social Security Administration.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192997/judge-doge-social-security-elon-musk
"The order, issued by District #Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander, prevents #DOGE from accessing personally identifiable #information, installing “any #software” on #SSA systems or devices, and accessing or disclosing SSA computer #code."
A list of the #SocialSecurity offices across the US expected to close this year
By MEG KINNARD
Updated 12:59 PM EDT, March 19, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "Dozens of Social Security Administration [#SSA] offices across the country are slated to close this year due to actions taken by #ElonMusk’s Department of Government Efficiency as part of the #Trump administration’s unprecedented effort to shrink the size of government.
"#DOGE has published a list of nearly 800 federal real estate leases that it is seeking to cancel. The Associated Press has obtained an internal planning document from the General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, which shows when nearly two-thirds of those cancellations are expected to go into effect.
"The offices are closing despite a new requirement that tighter identity-proofing measures be put in place to prevent fraud and abuse. These steps will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with agency employees over the phone.
"The AP also obtained more information about each lease on DOGE’s list through other publicly available datasets, including their addresses, the dates the leases had started and were originally expected to expire, and the landlords who own the properties."
Read more (includes a list of offices that will be closing):
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff
#ResistDOGE #TakeToTheStreets #KillThePoor #USPol #KillTheElderly #HungerGames #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #DisabilityRights #ElderRights #TakeCareOfThePoor #SocialSecurityPayments #SocialSecurityAdministration
#Trump Admin Threatens to Stop #SocialSecurity If #DOGE Can’t Have #PersonalData
Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data
by Andrew Perez, March 21, 2025
"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 #LeeDudek, 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 #SocialSecurityPayments — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order in a case brought by the #AFLCIO #LaborUnion. 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.'"
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vvgMF
#ResistDOGE #TakeToTheStreets #KillThePoor #USPol #KillTheElderly #HungerGames #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #DisabilityRights #ElderRights #TakeCareOfThePoor
@GottaLaff People WILL care when their Social Security checks stop along with their Medicare payments. Many people have their monthly Medicare payments deducted directly from Social Security. A double whammy. #socialsecurity #medicare #ssa
@GottaLaff I've been to many cities with excellent public transit, but it wasn't until I lived in Toronto that I got a full understanding of what a "third rail" is, and wow, you wouldn't want to touch that thing, and it's right there, on the ground.
23/ Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary tells All-In in DC! podcast,
"Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't. She'd think something got messed up and she'll get it next month," and then says that if you're the type who *would* whine loudly about such a thing, that's an indicator of being a fraudster." #SSA #SocialSecurity
This clip is not taken out of context, either.
Full podcast, All-In in DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182ckTL2KBA&ab_channel=All-InPodcast!
@PDFlynn I hope the idiot stops all #SSA payments to 73 million #Americans. #Dems can sell tickets to watch the spectacle of #dudek being torn apart by a mob of grannies and granpas.
DOGE “never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access" while "attempting to withhold the identities of its employees handling the SSA data based on the idea “the disclosure of even their names would expose them to harassment and thus invade their privacy.” #ironic in the extreme
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-doge-social-security-data-danger-1235300974/
#uspol #doge #SSA #infosec
#HowardLutnick on #SocialSecurity checks: "If you complain because your check doesn't arrive one month you're obviously just a fraudster. after all, i'm a crypto billionaire and my family members wouldn't complain about missing a $600 check."
DemocracyForward, 20 March 2025
Court Blocks Musk, DOGE’s Social Security Data Grab In First-Of-Its-Kind Order Requiring Musk and DOGE to “Disgorge” and “Delete” Any Personal Data
