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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump DOJ admits DOGE Social Security staff worked with political group trying to ‘overturn election results’

Two staff members with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency team at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a right-wing advocacy group trying to “overturn election results,” according to the Department of Justice.

A court filing in a long-running lawsuit targeting DOGE’s efforts inside Social Security reveals that at least one DOGE staffer signed an agreement with the activist group that may have involved providing Americans’ Social Security information in an effort to match that data to state voter registrations.

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