DOGE Ruling Shouldn’t Stop Social Security Payouts, Judge Says
-- A Maryland federal judge pushed back on speculation that her court order restricting Social Security Administration data access for Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team may threaten benefit payments by forcing much of the agency’s operations to shut down. Hollander’s 14-day temporary restraining order prompted the Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek to say that the judge’s references to “DOGE affiliates” could apply to any agency employee and that he would follow Hollander’s order “exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems.” In her letter Friday, Hollander said Dudek’s claims were “inaccurate.” A DOGE “affiliate” was “a person working on or implementing the DOGE agenda,” she said. Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement that Dudek’s response to Hollander’s order was “like a child who didn’t get his way.” “Rather than comply with a lawful court order, he wants to see millions of families, retirees and disabled individuals go hungry, suffer and potentially lose their homes all to curry favor with anti-worker billionaires,” Saunders said. “It’s despicable.” The case is American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration, 25-cv-596, US District Court, District of Maryland.
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