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Bridge in Rep Larson District
March 4, 2026

The IRS chief executive officer, Frank Bisignano, largely declined to offer specifics when asked about unlawful disclosures of taxpayer data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Wednesday. 

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Ranking Member Larson grills Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano on the Ways and Means Committee
March 4, 2026
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) demanded answers from Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano about the ‘DOGE’ scheme to use data from the Social Security Administration to try and overturn election results with an outside election interference group, something the Trump Department of Justice admitted in a recent court filing. 
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Bridge in Rep Larson District
February 16, 2026

Leaders at the Social Security Administration are reportedly instructing agency employees to provide Immigration and Customs Enforcement with information about in-person beneficiary appointments.

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Hartford CT Buildings
February 13, 2026
East Hartford, CT – Today, House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (MA-01) released a joint statement following reporting from WIRED that the Trump Administration is instructing Social Security workers to hand over appointment information to ICE.
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Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman, Rep. Linda Sanchez, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal, Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson, AFT Secretary Treasurer Fedrick Ingram, Alliance for Retired Americans Executive Director Richard Fiesta
February 11, 2026

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) introduced a Resolution of Inquiry with Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (MA-01), and every Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee.  

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Ranking Members Larson, Neal, and Morelle
February 4, 2026
Washington, D.C. - Following President Trump’s threats to “nationalize elections” and a court filing that revealed illegal ‘DOGE’ election interference efforts at Social Security, House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) authored an op-ed in MS NOW, “Election deniers may have your Social Security data — thanks to DOGE and Elon Musk.”
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Ranking Members Larson, Neal, and Morelle
January 27, 2026

The top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Finance Committee are asking the Social Security Administration to elaborate on a recent court filing which stated that SSA doesn’t know the full extent of agency data accessed and shared by the Department of Governm

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Bridge in Rep Larson District
January 22, 2026

Democratic House lawmakers are calling for a criminal investigation and congressional action into the Department of Government Efficiency after court filings showed that DOGE may have misused Social Security data. 

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Bridge in Rep Larson District
January 22, 2026

WASHINGTON — A Department of Government Efficiency employee shared social security data without the knowledge of agency officials and violated security protocols, according to a Tuesday Department of Justice court filing.