Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems

WASHINGTON -- The Trump medication asked the Supreme Court connected Friday to wide the mode for Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency to entree Social Security systems containing idiosyncratic information connected millions of Americans.

The exigency entreaty comes aft a justice successful Maryland restricted the team's entree nether national privateness laws.

Social Security holds idiosyncratic records connected astir everyone successful the country, including schoolhouse records, slope details, wage accusation and aesculapian and intelligence wellness records for disablement recipients, according to tribunal documents.

FILE - Elon Musk flashes his T-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media arsenic helium walks connected South Lawn of the White House, successful Washington, March 9, 2025.

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The authorities says the DOGE squad needs entree to people discarded successful the national government, and asked the justices to enactment the little tribunal bid connected clasp arsenic the suit implicit the contented plays out.

Solicitor General John Sauer argued that the judge's restrictions disrupt DOGE's urgent enactment and inappropriately interfere with executive-branch functions. "Left undisturbed, this preliminary injunction volition lone invitation further judicial incursions into interior bureau decision-making," helium wrote.

Musk has been focused connected Social Security arsenic an alleged hotbed of fraud, describing it arsenic a " Ponzi strategy " and insisting that reducing discarded successful the programme is an important mode to chopped authorities spending.

An appeals tribunal refused to instantly to assistance the artifact connected DOGE access, though it divided on ideological lines. Conservative judges successful the number said there's nary grounds that the squad has done immoderate "targeted snooping" oregon exposed idiosyncratic information.

The suit was primitively filed by a radical of labour unions and retirees represented by the radical Democracy Forward.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander successful Maryland that blocked DOGE from Social Security systems did let staffers to entree information that has been redacted oregon stripped of thing personally identifiable.

The entreaty is the latest successful a drawstring of exigency applications to the nation's highest tribunal arsenic the Trump medication faces astir 200 lawsuits challenging assorted aspects of President Donald Trump's sweeping blimpish agenda.