The head of the Social Security Administration is forced in an embarrassing U-turn after he threatened to close the desk.
Interim SSA Commissioner Lee Dudek had threatened to close the agency about the ruling of a judge who would burn the Doge van Elon Musk to gain access to their data.
He had said that the order may require that he is taking access to all employees of the Agency on Thursday to the information.
On Friday he returned the course after the White House immediately intervened and the judge in the class gave him further clarification about the ruling.
Dudek said: “Nowadays, the court has issued clarifying guidelines on the temporary restrictive order (TRO) with regard to doge employees and doge activities at the Social Security Administration (SSA).
“That's why I don't close the desk. President Trump supports keeping social security offices open and get the right check to the right person at the right time. SSA employees and their work will continue under the Tro. '
He told the Washington Post that the White House had called him to “remind me that I was out of the line on Friday.”
Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander with the Maryland district, who issued the order, also said that Dudek's claims were 'inaccurate'.
Interim SSA Commissioner Lee Dudek had threatened to close the agency about the ruling of a judge who would burn the Doge van Elon Musk to gain access to their data
The main campus of the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, Maryland
She said on Friday in the order: “Employees of SSA who are not involved in the DOGE team or in the work of the DOGE team are not subject to the order.”
Hollander had issued a temporary house ban of two weeks that 'doge team members and doge branches' blocked to gain access to 'personally identifiable information'.
She added that Doge “was essentially busy with a fish expedition on SSA, looking for a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.”
The judge added that Doge 'never identified or articulated a single reason for which the DOGE team needs unlimited access to the entire SSA record systems'.
If Dudek had effectively closed the agency, millions of Americans would have stopped their benefits.
Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal – employees, said in a statement: 'The social security has never missed a salary for almost 90 years – but 60 days in this administration is now on the outskirts of social security.
“Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek has again proven that he is in a road above his head, so that the privacy of millions of Americans has been endangered, closing services on which seniors trust and the debilitating fired plans, all in the service of Elon Musk's lies.”
Musk said that social security databases had millions of impossible Americans who were still in file.
Elon Musk speaks during the first cabinet meeting organized by US President Donald Trump, in the White House in Washington
Since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, his newly created DOG billions has lowered in government contracts
His Doge team says they have discovered millions of people over the age of 120, and even some more than 200.
Musk jokes called the efforts to remove these records a clearing of the 'Dead People database'.
The Doge X account has posted this week that the team has marked in the past two weeks as deceased 3.2 million people mentioned at the age of 120.
However, millions are still mentioned as alive in that age bar that the team works to remove.
The age category of 150-159 in the database on 8 March had marked 1,357,967 people as living.
By March 17, the count in that category fell by 186,415 to a total of 1,171,552.
In that two -week period in March, DOG was able to mark 3,261,057 people as killing who were previously in the social security system as part of the 'Living Count' between the ages of 120 and 159.
“More work to do,” noted the cost -saving group.
Although the millions clearly dead people are still in the system that are eligible for benefits, that does not necessarily mean that money is distributed among those individuals.
Since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, his newly created DOG billions in government contracts have reduced to private industry, thousands of federal jobs and even entire agencies – such as USaid.
Musk has promised to make even more cuts and to reduce waste and abuse of the government.
