The two maintain that they won’t attack the program, but their repeated claims of rampant fraud serve a strategic purpose.

In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, ...

New audio reveals Social Security head Leland Dudek admitting DOGE staff have broad data access amid Trump's agency overhaul.

Social Security acting commissioner Leland Dudek confirmed that Musk’s DOGE techies have ‘broad access’ to personal data, ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Since the arrival of a team from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Social Security is in a far more precarious place than has ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Since the arrival of a team from Elon Musk’s ...

Much of the U.S. civil service has recoiled at DOGE’s attempts to revamp the government. Others have been promoted.

Millions of Americans could soon feel the impact of the deep staffing cuts being planned at the Social Security ...

The agency will move ahead with a much narrower revision eliminating direct deposit changes by phone amid DOGE fraud concerns ...

It started on Jan. 31, when someone named Mike Russo showed up at the Social Security Administration offices outside ...

It started on Jan. 31, when someone named Mike Russo showed up at the Social Security Administration offices outside Baltimore and started introducing himself as a representative of DOGE, the federal ...