Social Security
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member (CT-01) released the following statement after House Republicans passed a resolution to block inquiries into ‘DOGE’ operations at Social Security from coming to the floor for a vote for the remainder of the 119th Congress.
Nearly every member of the House Republican caucus voted Wednesday in favor of a proposed constitutional amendment that experts say would result in massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare, nutrition assistance, and other key federal programs.
Democrats are warning that Social Security and other federal benefit programs could face "drastic cuts" amid renewed efforts by Republicans to impose sweeping budget constraints.
After the defeat of the Balanced Budget Amendment, Representative John B. Larson (CT-01) said it would have forced automatic reductions to key programs.
An internal government watchdog and members of Congress are separately investigating new allegations that a Department of Government Efficiency staffer potentially misused sensitive Social Security data.
The Social Security Administration's inspector general notified the leaders of several House and Senate committees on March 6 that it is reviewing an anonymous complaint "on matters relating to the potential misuse of SSA data by a former DOGE employee, among other allegations," according to a copy of the letter obtained by NPR.
Social Security’s inspector general is probing a whistleblower complaint that a former employee of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency claimed he had access to two Social Security databases and planned to share them with a new employer, a report said Tuesday, the latest security accusation in the post-DOGE era.
Critics of the Department of Government Efficiency are sounding the alarm after the Washington Postreported Tuesday that the Social Security