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The American folks realized shortly after Elon Musk placed on his DOGE disguise and began ransacking the federal authorities that the rooting of waste, fraud, and abuse was a pretense for a darker, extra ideological agenda.
, extra ideological agenda.
When Musk tried to achieve entry to Social Safety knowledge, Choose Ellen Hollander known as it out:
The American public might properly applaud and help the Trump Administration’s mission to root out fraud, waste, and bloat from federal businesses, together with SSA, to the extent it exists.
However, by what means and strategies?
The DOGE Workforce is actually engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, seeking a fraud epidemic, primarily based on little greater than suspicion. It has launched a seek for the proverbial needle within the haystack, with none concrete information that the needle is definitely within the haystack.
To facilitate the expedition, SSA offered members of the SSA DOGE Workforce with unbridled entry to the non-public and personal knowledge of hundreds of thousands of People, together with however not restricted to Social Safety numbers, medical information, psychological well being information, hospitalization information, drivers’ license numbers, financial institution and bank card info, tax info, revenue historical past, work historical past, beginning and marriage certificates, and residential and work addresses.
But, defendants, with so known as specialists on the DOGE Workforce, by no means recognized or articulated even a single motive for which the DOGE Workforce wants limitless entry to SSA’s whole file programs, thereby exposing private, confidential, delicate, and personal info that hundreds of thousands of People entrusted to their authorities. Certainly, the federal government has not even tried to clarify why a extra tailor-made, measured, titrated method isn’t appropriate to the duty.
As a substitute, the federal government merely repeats its incantation of a have to modernize the system and uncover fraud. Its methodology of doing so is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer. In my opinion, plaintiffs are prone to succeed on their declare that such motion is unfair and capricious, and in violation of the Privateness Act and the APA. Plaintiffs have additionally demonstrated that their members will endure irreparable hurt within the absence of a TRO, the equities tip of their favor, and the TRO serves the general public curiosity.
DOGE is a con. Republicans in Congress are in on the con as a result of the pretense of fraud offers them a possibility to intestine beloved applications like Social Safety, Medicare, and Medicaid.
The American folks see via the con, and so do the courts.
The court docket rulings matter as a result of they affirm what most People consider with information and proof offered by folks in positions of authority.
Trump and Musk can’t idiot all the folks if the courts proceed to show the reality, and the most recent ruling was probably the most blunt shredding of the DOGE pretense but.
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