Social Security Says DOGE Ruling Could Force Agency to Shut Down

[Morrison71]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-20/social-security-says-doge-ruling-could-force-agency-to-shut-down

The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge's ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency — an action that could delay payments to millions of beneficiaries caught in the middle of the legal battle.

Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek said the temporary restraining order issued Thursday is so broad in blocking access to data by "DOGE affiliates" that it could apply to any Social Security employee.

"My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates," Dudek said. "As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems."

He said he would ask the judge to immediately clarify her order. "Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency," he said.

The judge concluded that the unions and the retiree-advocacy group that sued were likely to succeed in arguing that DOGE access to the agency's systems violated US laws meant to safeguard sensitive information.

The standoff represents a new escalation in the multifront battle between President Donald Trump and the judiciary, potentially putting 73 million Americans who receive old-age or disability benefits in the crossfire.

'All Legal Remedies'​

The White House said Trump would "continue to seek all legal remedies available to ensure the will of the American people goes into effect."

"In an 134-page decision, a radical leftist-judge ordered Social Security Administration employees not to implement the President's government-efficiency agenda," said White House deputy press secretary Harrison Fields. "This is yet another activist judge abusing the judicial system to try and sabotage the President's attempts to rid the government of waste, fraud, and abuse."

Courts have previously restricted access by DOGE staffers to sensitive Treasury payment systems until they certify that they've received proper clearance and training. But Thursday's order by US District Judge Ellen Hollander goes even further, forbidding access to any non-anonymized data. She also ordered DOGE staff to delete or purge any Social Security Administration data that it already had in its possession.

"The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion," Hollander wrote. "It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack."
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[TunzaHawk]

If you want to cut your own throat, you shut down the agency….

 

[Morrison71]

Think of the government savings if all the old people die! Republican dream.

 

[BioHawk]

I can't wait to see what happens when those social security checks stop coming in the mail.

Just think of how much housing prices will drop when 30 million people get booted from their homes.

 

[Morrison71]

And still Republicans refuse to talk about how far right their party is.

 

[Urohawk]

Think of the government savings if all the old people die! Republican dream.

I guess they want to murder their own voting base.

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Hey Leland, there is an extremely simple way to get out of this self imposed conundrum.

 

[billanole]

I can't wait to see what happens when those social security checks stop coming in the mail.

Just think of how much housing prices will drop when 30 million people get booted from their homes.

I cringe to think of all the armed folks showing up at duuge officials homes. It will be a bloodbath.
Social Security has long been known as the third rail. Mess with it, you gone.

 

[Huey Grey]

Boomers better start Luigi-ing. Only way we're getting out of this mess now.

 

[seminole97]

I can't wait to see what happens when those social security checks stop coming in the mail.

Just think of how much housing prices will drop when 30 million people get booted from their homes.

Looks like a place for mom is going to be your garage.

 

[wilson reborn]

I hope they shut down SS for awhile. Only way we’re getting out of this.

 

[billanole]

Boomers better start Luigi-ing. Only way we're getting out of this mess now.

The weapons are out there. Dummies have basically asked for it.

 

[Huey Grey]

The weapons are out there. Dummies have basically asked for it.

You create tons of desperate people with nothing to lose and we'll start seeing some real shit.

 

[uihawk82]

I can't wait to see what happens when those social security checks stop coming in the mail.

Just think of how much housing prices will drop when 30 million people get booted from their homes.

Oh no , there will be pitchforks and hot tar and feathers for Doge Trump and the magats.

And all the military and cops have parents and grandparents who would be missing checks.

 

[bhawk24bob]

Oh look they care about what a court says

 

[uihawk82]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-20/social-security-says-doge-ruling-could-force-agency-to-shut-down

Well that article just shows how the tRump Dump acting SS chief is making shit up. He says everyone that works at SS are now Doge affiliates, hahaha, lets see how that logic flies.

First off, all the real SS employees were employed there before doge was created so they have not been rolled up into Doge which is a separate agency. Those SS employees are not Doge people.

 

[pjhawk]

 

[wilson reborn]

What will the elderly do if they don’t get SS? Does everybody have a 401k? I hope so.

 

[lucas80]

I can't wait to see what happens when those social security checks stop coming in the mail.

Just think of how much housing prices will drop when 30 million people get booted from their homes.

 

[billanole]

What will the elderly do if they don’t get SS? Does everybody have a 401k? I hope so.

Of course they don’t.

 

[lucas80]

It would be funny to watch Rifler and Goldy freak out.

 

[pjhawk]

It would be funny to watch Rifler and Goldy freak out.

The Leopards won't eat my face!%!!

 

[bhawk24bob]

I’m going to err on the side of thinking that somebody new already eff’d something that’s un-effable in a reasonable amount of time in SS’ cobol platform and they think they have a scapegoat now.