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The Trump administration admitted in a recent report that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) violated protocols, had greater access to sensitive data on Americans than previously disclosed, and were in contact with a political advocacy group pursuing election fraud. File a lawsuit.
Justice Department officials told a federal court in Maryland that the DSS had not fully complied with the court’s prior order, and had made statements to the court that later turned out to be completely untrue. The acceptance came in a document mentioned earlier by PoliticoCorrection of the record in a case filed by unions representing government workers.
In a recent audit, the SSA discovered that two DOGE staff members working for the agency were contacted in March 2025 by a political advocacy group “to request an analysis of state voter rolls obtained by the advocacy group.” “The group’s stated goal is to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in some states,” the filing stated. A DOGE member signed a “voter data agreement” with the group that was not reviewed through the proper SSA data-sharing process. The agency first learned of the agreement’s existence in November, during a review separate from the lawsuit in question. The Social Security Administration made two referrals under the Hatch Act — the law that prohibits government employees from engaging in political activities in their professional capacity — in late December. The SSA and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The SBU also discovered in its latest review that some of the previous statements made to the court by the then CIO were not entirely true. The filing says the agency believed its statements were correct at the time, and that they remain largely accurate in many cases, although new information shows some inconsistencies. For example, the government maintains its previous statement that the US Digital Service, which was taken over by the Department of State, “never had access to the Social Security Administration’s enrollment systems.” However, it was later discovered that a member of the SSA DOGE team had sent an encrypted, password-protected file that the SSA believed contained personal information about about 1,000 people to a then-senior DOGE advisor. It remains “unclear” whether the DOGE advisor obtained the password, according to the filing.
DOGE employees were also briefly granted access to systems containing Americans’ personal information after a court issued a temporary restraining order, but the government says the employees never saw the personal information with that access. She also explained that a DOGE employee conducted searches for personal information on SSA systems the morning before the agency filed a declaration with the court, saying DOGE employees’ access to those systems had been revoked.
DOGE staff at SSA also shared data through a third-party Cloudflare server, which was not approved to share data in this way, the filing says. The SSA still doesn’t know “exactly what data was shared with Cloudflare or whether the data still exists on the server.”