Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data (politico.com)

Because the headline underplays it quite a bit the actual story here is that the Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.

Wow this is bad. Will there be any accountability?

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> Shapiro also revealed that despite prior assertions in court, SSA’s DOGE team members “were using links to share data through the third-party server ‘Cloudflare.’”

Wreckless incompetence at the highest levels of government.

The dogs of DOGE Whining for relevance Shit on everything

I think there's an unprecedented level of lawbreaking and disregard for consequences by this administration. So far they haven't been held to account, it remains to be seen if they ever will.

Link for when flagged: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-soc...

Wow, this is bad. Almost as bad as that time Hunter Biden got his laptop stolen am I right?

/s

Why is this flagged? It is a security breach.

You can track how this story spread from CNN at 3:32 PM as first to report, then whistleblower.org, peters.senate.gov, and eventually scienceblog.com and democracydocket.com. Yandori shows 54 sources picked it up with 48 citations: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-20-9734134-trump-...