Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems

WASHINGTON AP The Trump administration demanded the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk s Department of Leadership Efficiency to access Social Shield systems containing personal information on millions of Americans The exigency appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the squad s access under federal privacy laws Social Safety holds personal records on nearly everyone in the country including school records bank details salary information and physiological and mental wellbeing records for disability recipients according to court documents The authorities says the DOGE crew necessities access to target waste in the federal executive Musk has been focused on Social Assurance as an alleged hotbed of fraud describing it as a Ponzi scheme and insisting that reducing waste in the undertaking is an major way to cut leadership spending An appeals court majority refused to lift the block on DOGE access though it split along ideological lines Conservative judges noted there s no evidence that the gang has done any targeted snooping or exposed personal information The lawsuit was originally filed by a group of labor unions and retirees represented by the group Democracy Forward The ruling from U S District Judge Ellen Hollander in Maryland that blocked DOGE from Social Precaution systems did allow staffers to access records that has been redacted or stripped of anything personally identifiable