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

WASHINGTON AP The Trump administration required the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk s Department of Cabinet Efficiency to access Social Prevention systems containing personal input on millions of Americans The crisis appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the organization s access under federal privacy laws Social Protection holds personal records on nearly everyone in the country including school records bank details salary information and curative and mental medical records for disability recipients according to court documents The governing body says the DOGE squad demands access to target waste in the federal executive Musk has been focused on Social Shield as an alleged hotbed of fraud describing it as a Ponzi scheme and insisting that reducing waste in the plan is an vital way to cut administration spending An appeals court majority refused to lift the block on DOGE access though it split along ideological lines Conservative judges declared there s no evidence that the organization has done any targeted snooping or exposed personal information The lawsuit was originally filed by a group of labor unions and retirees represented by the group Democracy Forward The ruling from U S District Judge Ellen Hollander in Maryland that blocked DOGE from Social Guard systems did allow staffers to access statistics that has been redacted or stripped of anything personally identifiable