Obama Appointed Judge Blocks DOGE From Social Security Records

A federal judge has temporarily blocked DOGE from accessing systems at the Social Security Administration delivering another setback to President Trump's efforts to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse from the federal government.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a 137-page decision after a group of unions petitioned the court to stop DOGE's access to the records at the SSA - claiming that their efforts violated the Privacy Act and a federal law that governs the agency rule making process.

The Trump administration says DOGE has a 10-person team of federal employees at the Social Security Administration, seven of whom have been granted read-only access to agency systems or personally identifiable information – and are targeting waste and fraud in the federal government.

Attorneys for the government say that DOGE’s access isn’t any different from normal practices inside the agency, where employees are allowed to search its databases.