Trump administration stops classifying 6,300 living migrants as dead in Social Security database and switches to marking their numbers as “unverified” to maintain pressure for self-deportation.
19-year-old “Big Balls” Coristine returns to government as a special government employee working on Social Security website after resigning, using same classification as Elon Musk for agency access.
Social Security stops reporting call wait times and processing metrics after DOGE targets customer service as agency faces website crashes and long field office lines.
New data shows Medicare and Social Security stop paying full benefits in 8-9 years, earlier than projected, before accounting for Trump’s pending budget bill that would trigger additional Medicare cuts.
Senators Warren and Wyden warn DOGE’s rushed Social Security IT overhaul could cause “catastrophic cuts to all benefits” and system collapse.
Supreme Court lifts injunction blocking Trump’s DOGE from accessing Social Security data, overriding privacy protections despite three justices’ dissent.
Federal data centralization project by DOGE sparks privacy concerns over combining Social Security, tax, and medical data.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security data blocked by lower court injunction.
Appeals court rules 9–6 to block DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data without training or oversight.
