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Yikes, Musk,DOGE, and Social Security….


The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday.

Michelle King, who spent several decades at the agency before being named its acting commissioner last month, left her position Sunday after the disagreement, the people said.

President Donald Trump appointed Leland Dudek, a manager in charge of Social Security’s anti-fraud office, as acting commissioner while Frank Bisignano, the president’s nominee for permanent commissioner, is vetted by the Senate, according to three individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly. A public announcement is expected this week. Dudek had posted positive remarks on social media about DOGE’s efforts to cut costs and search for fraud in federal agencies, according to two of the individuals.

In selecting Dudek, Trump bypassed dozens of other senior executives who sat higher in the agency’s leadership hierarchy, touching off alarm in and around the agency, which has already faced years of budget and staffing difficulties.

“At this rate, they will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits,” said Martin O’Malley, the Social Security commissioner under the Biden administration and a former Maryland governor.
 
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Yikes, Musk,DOGE, and Social Security….


The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday.

Michelle King, who spent several decades at the agency before being named its acting commissioner last month, left her position Sunday after the disagreement, the people said.

President Donald Trump appointed Leland Dudek, a manager in charge of Social Security’s anti-fraud office, as acting commissioner while Frank Bisignano, the president’s nominee for permanent commissioner, is vetted by the Senate, according to three individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly. A public announcement is expected this week. Dudek had posted positive remarks on social media about DOGE’s efforts to cut costs and search for fraud in federal agencies, according to two of the individuals.

In selecting Dudek, Trump bypassed dozens of other senior executives who sat higher in the agency’s leadership hierarchy, touching off alarm in and around the agency, which has already faced years of budget and staffing difficulties.

“At this rate, they will break it. And they will break it fast, and there will be an interruption of benefits,” said Martin O’Malley, the Social Security commissioner under the Biden administration and a former Maryland governor.
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Isn’t it ironic that we don’t get to have access to Donald’s financials. Remember that “audit” he said he had and that’s why he couldn’t release his taxes the first time? And now because of him, Musk now has access to our financials, social security numbers, and god knows what else.

Is this really the conservative government people want?
 
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Social Security acting commissioner exits agency after clash with Elon Musk

‘They will break it, and they will break it fast,’ a former Biden Social Security commissioner warned of the program
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Nancy Altman, who heads the group Social Security Works which promotes the expansion of the program, told The Washington Post: “What I know is that DOGE wanted access to SSA’s sensitive files – the same way they’re trying to do at Labor and Treasury – and the acting commissioner wouldn’t give it, and she was replaced.”

She noted to The New York Times that the data includes “our bank information, our earnings records, the names and ages of our children, and much more.”

Altman told the Post: “There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.”
 
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Isn’t it ironic that we don’t get to have access to Donald’s financials. Remember that “audit” he said he had and that’s why he couldn’t release his taxes the first time? And now because of him, Musk now has access to our financials, social security numbers, and god knows what else.

Is this really the conservative government people want?
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We were told, here, that Project 2025 was nothing. Yeah, right….


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He Will Not Allow Conflicts’​

Mr. Trump in comments, social media posts and interviews, has rejected any suggestions that he is violating ethics standards and has accused those criticizing his actions as political partisans. Mr. Trump and his advisers have described the country as being in a state of existential decline as the president begins his second term.
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” he wrote Saturday on his social media site.

That assertion — an apparent repurposing of a quote of unknown sourcing but attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte — is expressly counter to the founding fathers’ vision of a government based on checks and balances among executive, legislative and judicial branches, in which no one branch holds too much power.

The democratic system in United States never really anticipated what is happening in the Trump administration, said Alan Rozenshtein, a former Justice Department national security lawyer who is now a law professor at the University of Minnesota.

“The presidency requires virtue — it requires a basic level of decency and loyalty to the country,” Mr. Rozenshtein said. “If you don’t have that kind of person, there is not much one can do unfortunately at that point, especially if Congress is supine.”
 
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I can’t imagine being abandoned by the country you devoted your life to serve like this. This is incomprehensible cruelty from Musk and Trump. America first my ***.
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Oh noes! A woman in a country with socialized medicine is going to have a baby in a socialized medicine medical facility. That is the story. The mother didn't die. The baby didn't die. Trump efforts to curb wasteful USAID spending has caused the pregnant wife to feel stressed and so they are suing for stress.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Well, for all of us it isn't so pointed, but we are all being abandoned by the country we loved. The coup is on. It is about time they started talking about this as a coup and not just "Trump doing ****".
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"They" don't talk about it as a coup because "they" don't want to come across as morons who don't know what a coup is. A man campaigning on a slate of issues that appeal to the American people, then being elected in a free and fair election, and setting about making good on the things he campaigned on is not a coup. That is the way the system is supposed to work.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
Oh noes! A woman in a country with socialized medicine is going to have a baby in a socialized medicine medical facility. That is the story. The mother didn't die. The baby didn't die. Trump efforts to curb wasteful USAID spending has caused the pregnant wife to feel stressed and so they are suing for stress.
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This is a pretty disgusting response, even for you. Trumpers just can't help but live up to the stereotypes I guess.
 
Zombie said:
This is a pretty disgusting response, even for you. Trumpers just can't help but live up to the stereotypes I guess.
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Someone has filed a lawsuit over stress? Yes, I think that is stupid.

Also, I thought you lot were all about the paradise of socialized medicine. This guy desperately wants to get out of the socialized medicine country and back to the supposed hellscape of American hospitals.
 
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Al-O-Meter said:
Someone has filed a lawsuit over stress? Yes, I think that is stupid.

Also, I thought you lot were all about the paradise of socialized medicine. This guy desperately wants to get out of the socialized medicine country and back to the supposed hellscape of American hospitals.
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Well, no. They filed a lawsuit over the unconstitutional shuttering of USAID. The above is an affidavit that's a part of that lawsuit.

Anyway, it's pretty clear that you actually are bothered by this. You just aren't able to admit it, even to yourself. You're distancing yourself from it by describing a life threatening hemorrhage as simply "stress," and introducing a complete non-sequitur about socialized medicine. That's a lot of effort to avoid confronting the reality of what happened here.
 
Zombie said:
Well, no. They filed a lawsuit over the unconstitutional shuttering of USAID. The above is an affidavit that's a part of that lawsuit.

Anyway, it's pretty clear that you actually are bothered by this. You just aren't able to admit it, even to yourself. You're distancing yourself from it by describing a life threatening hemorrhage as simply "stress," and introducing a complete non-sequitur about socialized medicine. That's a lot of effort to avoid confronting the reality of what happened here.
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Nailed it
 
Zombie said:
Well, no. They filed a lawsuit over the unconstitutional shuttering of USAID.
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Nice try, but USAID isn't shuttered and they aren't suing for Trump causing a hemorrhage. They are suing because they wanted a plane ride from the socialized medicine country back to America after they waited too long with the wife's high-risk pregnancy to be able to use standard commercial flights.
 
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Don’t care, just showing how out of touch and tribal many people are in this forum. So much negativity and hate that they are blind to what actually is happening.
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It's always cute when conservatives feign concern for the well being of the democratic party.
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