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The Social Security Administration’s acting leader stepped down from her role over requests from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access recipient data, according to several reports. Acting Commissioner Michelle King departed from the agency over the weekend after more than 30 years of service. She allegedly refused to provide DOGE staffers with sensitive information, The Associated Press reported. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5150499-social-security-chief-resigns-doge-access-data/

He didn't get rid of her She quit because Elon is breaking the law and stealing data and she wanted no part of it.

You idiot. Let me explain to you. She's talking about undiagnosed chronic disease that went untreated, not covid. She's talking about obesity, HIV, high blood pressure, emphysema, etc. All comorbidities' that contributed to covid deaths that went untreated for years among the poorest and unhealthiest communities. So yes healthcare is important and cutting healthcare and research into healthcare and disease that this administration is doing will be so detrimental to Americans.

She wasn't appointed by Trump last month? https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/designation-of-acting-leaders/ Because this white house link says she was. You can apologize now for calling me a liar.

And it was about misinformation. It wasn't about silencing conservatives. And now the right owns the platform and engages in the same behavior that they falsely accused the left of. So stop with the fake outrage, moron.

There was never any collaboration to censor conservative views. Lie. What you're confused about is the fight against misinformation, which is largely engaged in by far right wingers. X and meta now allow and propagate misinformation while censoring criticism of the right. Apples and oranges boyo.

Meta removed an advertisement earlier this month criticizing Elon Musk’s use of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to seize Americans' private information. "A single individual now controls sensitive U.S. data, risking our national security. Urge Congress to enforce strict oversight," read the rejected Facebook ad purchased by Ekō, a watchdog group that says it is committed to curbing corporate power. The ad linked to an online petition, which has received roughly 95,000 signatures, calling for "a massive public outcry demanding US lawmakers take action [against Musk and DOGE] before more damage is done." Freedom of speech

You need therapy boyo

Haven't you told people here that their wives and kids should be raped and murdered?

"60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election," Musk wrote. "They deserve a long prison sentence." Freedom of speech

She was just appointed by Trump last month.

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. This the trump appointed person pushing back on breaking the law. “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. “It’s a shame the chilling effect it has to disregard 120 senior executive service people,” O’Malley said. “To pick an acting commissioner that is not in the senior executive service sends a message that professional people should leave that beleaguered public agency.”

"It's your entire earnings record. If you're a beneficiary, it's your benefits, it's the name of your spouse and when you got married and if you got divorced, and all kinds of information. And most sensitive, if you've applied for disability benefits, all of your medical records," said Altman.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/14/2303889/-Nope-There-are-no-150-year-olds-on-Social-Security-It-s-COBOL Yeah we suck

Elon Musk’s overhaul of the federal government seems to have hit a snag: His Department of Government Efficiency posted classified information on its website. Musk’s team posted information about the staff and size of a U.S. intelligence agency on their new website, HuffPost reports. DOGE has been criticized for the level of access into sensitive government departments, including the Treasury Department, but how they got the classified information isn’t clear.

Read the article. The money was reclaimed as part of a five-month pilot program after Congress gave the Department of Treasury temporary access to the Social Security Administration ’s “Full Death Master File” for three years as part of the omnibus appropriations bill in 2021. The SSA maintains the most complete federal database of individuals who have died, and the file contains more than 142 million records, which go back to 1899, according to the Treasury.

Wtf is that supposed to mean?

This has been a known problem for years. Multiple reports of this happening during Trump's first term. He did nothing, of course, because he doesn't care. https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_c3a1878c-fb4f-11e9-968e-231021b4c2aa.html Biden started to address it during his term and recovered tens of millions https://apnews.com/article/social-security-biden-treasury-trump-doge-cc46365b82a32038123576502977dd26

We're rocketing toward an autocracy at lightning speed! 

Isn't that what Trump does?

Oh the hypocrisy

Considering the amount of time you spend here spewing childish insults I don't think so.

That's what they want you to believe. Instead you're witnessing one of the largest grifts in global history

Trump fires a bunch of FAA employees amid a rash of crashes. It's gotten so bad reality star Sean Duffy is asking for helping on X to fix the system. What a clown show. https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1891310401800872114?t=iJZPEbMXbURgWFiRBCoTKw&s=19