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A Connecticut Democratic congressman has failed to get Republican support for the U.S. House to hold the Trump Administration accountable for the improper sharing of sensitive Social Security information.

In a court filing last week, the U.S. Justice Department acknowledged that DOGE had signed a secret agreement to share people’s social security information with an unidentified political advocacy group.

Two Democratic congressmen are calling for a criminal investigation into the entity known as the Department of Government Efficiency after the Trump administration admitted in court filings that the organization shared Social Security data on an unauthorized private server.

The Social Security Administration said in a Jan. 16 court filing that “DOGE” employees tried to hand over sensitive personal records to an unnamed advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results” and sent confidential information on about 1,000 Americans to Elon Musk’s workers.

A Department of Government Efficiency employee shared Social Security data without agency officials’ knowledge and in violation of security protocols, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday.

The Social Security Administration is still unable to determine what information was shared through a third-party server that’s not approved to store agency records or whether that data still exists on the server, according to the filing.

Advocates and Democratic members of Congress are calling for a criminal investigation after a court filing revealed that operatives at the Department of Government Efficiency—previously headed by Elon Musk—pilfered and leaked Social Security data through a non-secure private server.

HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shared Social Security data through an unsecured web server last year, the benefits agency has disclosed.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) said in a Friday court filing that DOGE employees used Cloudflare, an internet services provider, to share SSA information in March. Cloudflare is not approved for storing the agency’s data, and using it like DOGE did is a violation of security protocols, SSA said.

Employees with the Department of Government Efficiency who were detailed to the Social Security Administration last March shared sensitive data through a nonsecure third party server, in violation of agency security policies, the Justice Department disclosed in a court filing.