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 Administration Efficiency to access Social Defense systems containing personal material on millions of Americans The urgency appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the band s access under federal privacy laws Social Shield holds personal records on nearly everyone in the country including school records bank details salary information and clinical and mental fitness records for disability recipients according to court documents The regime says the DOGE squad demands access to target waste in the federal authorities Musk has been focused on Social Prevention as an alleged hotbed of fraud describing it as a Ponzi scheme and insisting that reducing waste in the operation is an central way to cut regime 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 Prevention systems did allow staffers to access input that has been redacted or stripped of anything personally identifiable