US Supreme Court grants DOGE access to sensitive Social Security data

A protester in White Plains, New York, holds up a sign against efforts to access and scale back the Social Security Administration on March 22 [Nathan Layne/Reuters]

The United States Supreme Court has sided with the administration of President Donald Trump in two cases about government records — and who should have access to them.

On Friday, the six-member conservative majority overturned a lower court’s ruling that limited the kinds of data that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could access through the Social Security Administration (SSA).