Lee Dudek, Trump’s interim Social Security chief, says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data.

Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.

In a scathing ruling on Thursday, a federal judge wrote that DOGE “essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.”