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Lawmakers Demand Answers on DOGE and Social Security Data

New reporting shows that a federal operation with access to Americans’ Social Security data may have been used to support partisan efforts targeting our elections — and Congress must investigate.

Democracy Docket reports that staff from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) worked with a political advocacy group seeking to probe voter rolls in multiple states. A DOGE employee signed a data-sharing agreement with this group in 2025 without proper approval from the Social Security Administration, despite the group’s stated goal of finding evidence to challenge past election results.

This matters because DOGE operated inside the Social Security Administration, giving it access to some of the most sensitive personal information Americans have. NBC News and NPR report that the Justice Department believes DOGE may have misused Social Security data and that officials cannot fully account for how that data was accessed or shared. The Independent has linked DOGE’s work to broader efforts to promote false claims of voter fraud that have been used to justify voter suppression laws.

In response, Representatives John Larson, Richard Neal, Joe Morelle, and Robert Garcia are calling for a full Congressional investigation into what data was shared, how it was handled, and whether federal law was violated.

Americans deserve to know whether their personal information was misused for political purposes and whether federal ethics and privacy laws were violated. 

Thanks,
Mary