Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, allegedly backed a Trump-era plan in Washington that would have marked 2.7 million living people as dead in Social Security records, according to a whistleblower disclosure made public this week. The proposal, which never went ahead, was described as part of an immigration enforcement push overseen by the Department of Homeland Security.
The disclosure centres on a little‑known corner of the federal bureaucracy that briefly carried Musk's brand. DOGE was touted as an efficiency drive, borrowing the billionaire's name and rhetoric about disruption for government use. The whistleblower report now suggests that, behind that glossy framing, officials were considering a tactic that would have used Social Security's Death Master File to exert pressure on migrants inside the United States.
