Doge sets sights on cutting waste from the Social Security Agency
Social security is the latest goal in promoting the Ministry of Government Efficiency to significantly reduce government spending.
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Washington – The Supreme Court, divided on June 6, said Elon Musk Government efficiency gives you full access to the data of millions of Americans held by the US Social Security Agency.
The court suspended the judge’s order.s Social Security Number, Medical and Mental Health Information, Tax Returns and Citizenship Records.
The three liberal justices of the court — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — opposed the decision.
“The government wants to provide Doge’s free access to this personal non-anonymous information. Now – Before the court had time to assess whether Doge access was legal, Jackson wrote to opponents who Sotomayor participated in. “Essentially, the ‘urgency’ underlying government stay applications is the fact that the litigation process cannot wait for you to play before you file a lawsuit as you wish.”
When deciding what was worth emergency intervention, Jackson said the court “really lost the mooring” and could indicate priority treatment for the administration.
“Essentially, it says that other The applicant for stay must point beyond the inconvenience of compliance with an unlikable lower court order. “The government can approach the court bar with more than that and still get relief from this court,” he wrote.
In the decision that was not signed in a short time, the majority said access was guaranteed because the court would likely ultimately determine that Doge could have the information. The delays would harm the regime’s efforts to restructure and would not benefit the people, the majority wrote.
In March, Maryland Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander said Doge had invaded “personal issues of millions of Americans” on a fishing expedition based on more than doubt.
Access to information from Hollander Limited Doge has resulted in the court assessing the legality of the Trump administration’s actions.
The administration argued that the judge had stepped over, and Doge staff saw the employees as the equivalent of intruders, rather than trying to modernize the agency’s technology and eradicate waste.
“The district court should not be able to exercise privacy laws to replace its own views on the government’s “needs” with those of the president and agent,” Attorney General John Sauer told the Supreme Court on an emergency appeal.
Doge has sought access to multiple agencies as part of its mission to hunt down wasteful spending and dramatically overhaul the federal government.
Musk falsely claims that millions of Americans who have died are still undergoing Social Security checks.
Two unions and advocacy groups sued the SSA after Doge began digging into personal data.
They said Supreme Court judicial stakeholders should not intervene because the administration did not show an urgent need to access more data than district judges had allowed.
In addition to overseeing Social Security benefits for retirees and disabled people, the Social Security Administration helps manage programs run by other agencies, including Medicare and Medicaid.
The split-off federal court of appeals on April 30 rejected the Trump administration’s request to block the orders of district judges.
US Circuit Judge Robert King of the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals for the Richmond, Virginia, said the government has not shown the need for free access to highly sensitive personal information, with all the reasons why Americans believe they are “strongly protected.”
Doge’s mission can primarily be achieved through anonymized and compiled data. This is the usual way agents handled technology upgrades and fraud detection.