DOGE plan would have marked 2.7M living people as dead: Whistleblower
The request to effectively “kill off” people in Social Security records came from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and involved Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, according to a new whistleblower disclosure. The disclosure, first reported by The Washington Post, comes from Jeremiah Schofield, a former senior Social Security executive who worked at the agency for more than 25 years. In the 49-page document, Schofield describes a plan aimed at pressuring targeted individuals to self-deport or visit Social Security offices where immigration officials could locate them.
- ▪The request to effectively “kill off” people in Social Security records came from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and involved Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, according to a new whistleblower disclosur
- ▪The disclosure, first reported by The Washington Post, comes from Jeremiah Schofield, a former senior Social Security executive who worked at the agency for more than 25 years.
- ▪In the 49-page document, Schofield describes a plan aimed at pressuring targeted individuals to self-deport or visit Social Security offices where immigration officials could locate them.
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Nexstar Media Wire News DOGE plan would have marked 2.7M living people as dead: Whistleblower Comments: by Andrew Dorn - 06/05/26 8:24 PM ET Comments: Link copied by Andrew Dorn - 06/05/26 8:24 PM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING (NewsNation) — The Trump administration planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead in Social Security records as part of an immigration enforcement push, a whistleblower alleges. The request to effectively “kill off” people in Social Security records came from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and involved Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, according to a new whistleblower disclosure.
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