A federal judge blocked the agency from granting personnel affiliated with DOGE access to agency systems containing personally identifiable information.
I was confused about how the restraining order could conceivably lead to shutting down the agency but apparently Leland Dudek simply wanted to spite the court.
“My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,” he said to Bloomberg News on Thursday. “As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems.” He continued, “Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency."
I hope that the “clarifying guidance” he received from the court before he changed his mind included an explanation of the judicial smackdown which he would receive if he tried this bullshit.
I was confused about how the restraining order could conceivably lead to shutting down the agency but apparently Leland Dudek simply wanted to spite the court.
I hope that the “clarifying guidance” he received from the court before he changed his mind included an explanation of the judicial smackdown which he would receive if he tried this bullshit.