https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/20\/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Two members of Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to \u201coverturn election results in certain states,\u201d and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Shapiro, a top Justice Department official, said SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from using their official positions for political purposes.<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
Also among the corrections: DOJ revealed that a DOGE team member was briefly granted access to private Social Security profiles even after a court prohibited it. Shapiro said the access was never \u201cutilized.\u201d And in another instance, a DOGE team member had access for two months to a \u201ccall center profile\u201d that contained private information.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is unknown at this time whether any [private information] was accessed,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n
Shapiro also revealed that despite prior assertions in court, SSA\u2019s DOGE team members \u201cwere using links to share data through the third-party server \u2018Cloudflare.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCloudflare is not approved for storing SSA data and when used in this manner is outside SSA\u2019s security protocols,\u201d Shapiro indicated.”<\/p>\n
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