A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.
Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.
The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”
Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.
The Daily Beast is really burying the actual story with that headline. The article is about Musk declaring alive people “dead” in a federal database. A database that is referenced by the whole world.
Not for long if you can’t trust the data.
Possibly because that story’s already been out for a few days
Well, I suppose it’s time for the banks to move away from using Social Security numbers as a form of identification. Honestly, they should have done this years ago. SSNs were never intended to be used as a form of ID, but they were convenient, so banks did it anyway. But if Social Security records are no longer reliable, they no longer reliably list living and dead people, then banks will need to move to other forms of identification.
I think the rest of the world will stop trusting the US’s word about the status of anything. The boy who cried wolf has contracted rabies.
I think that has already been happening for a long time.
Ya know, dead people have some crazy perks.
They don’t owe anything on their debts, for one.
Time to max out those credit cards!
Being “dead” isn’t ideal if you have a mortgage that the bank can foreclose on.