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The Social Security Administration filed a notice of corrections admitting that DOGE staffers had improperly accessed sensitive personal data and traded it among themselves, including transferring it to a non-SSA Cloudflare server outside agency security protocols. The admissions came after previous declarations under oath proved incomplete.
Most disturbing was the revelation that a DOGE affiliate signed a "Voter Data Agreement" as an SSA employee with a political advocacy group (believed to be True the Vote) seeking to analyze state voter rolls to challenge election results. The agreement was signed on March 24, 2025—four days AFTER a federal court issued a temporary restraining order barring DOGE from accessing Americans' private data. SSA also revealed that Steve Davis received by email a file containing private information of approximately 1,000 people.
Two DOGE employees were referred to the Office of Special Counsel for Hatch Act violations in late December 2025 for engaging in prohibited political activity. The scandal represented a pattern of DOGE disregard for legal constraints: from the initial FACA lawsuits on Inauguration Day, to federal judges blocking data access in February 2025, to the March 2025 Cloudflare server breach, to the now-revealed voter data scheme.
By January 2026, DOGE-driven workforce reductions had eliminated 322,049 federal employees (10% of the workforce), the largest peacetime reduction on record. Elon Musk had departed in May 2025 after 130 days, claiming $160 billion in savings—far short of the promised $2 trillion. The entity was scheduled to terminate on July 4, 2026.