The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...

Millions of Americans rely on Social Security benefits to help cover everyday expenses. This includes not only retirees but ...

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Chief Justice John Roberts has granted the Department of Government Efficiency temporary relief from having to disclose ...

The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon, asking the justices to pause a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in Maryland that temporarily bars members […] ...

Her order, however, allows the DOGE affiliates to access Social Security data that is redacted ... The silence on this issue is deafening.” ...

“The sole mission of DOGE is to identify waste ... this week meant to coordinate their messaging on the issue and plan events. Social Security also featured prominently in Tuesday’s ...

When Mike Russo entered Social Security Administration ... attorneys could not explain why DOGE even needed the data. “The silence on this issue is deafening,” Hollander wrote in her order.

Government fraud risk expert Linda Miller spoke to “60 Minutes" about how effectively the Department of Government Efficiency ...

There are known issues with false matches when just ... It's also not clear if the DOGE effort to combine Social Security data with other sources inside and outside the federal government runs ...

"T]he issue here is not the work that DOGE ... But the legal battle over DOGE's access to Social Security data is the first directly involving the cost-cutting task force to land before the ...