A former senior official at the Social Security Administration (SSA) has claimed that officials linked to President Donald Trump's administration discussed a plan that would have classified 2.7 million living people as deceased as part of a broader immigration enforcement strategy, a 49-page whistleblower disclosure reveals.
The allegations suggest the proposal would have relied on one of the federal government's most powerful databases to cut people off from employment, banking services, government benefits and other essential parts of daily life. Administration officials insist the plan was never implemented and deny that millions of names were added to the agency's records.
