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Judge Limits DOGE’s Grubby Hands From Grabbing Social Security Administration Data / The preliminary injunction will restrict DOGE staffers from accessing sensitive personal information.


The preliminary injunction will restrict DOGE staffers from accessing sensitive personal information.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction that will at least temporarily prevent staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on millions of Americans while working within the Social Security Administration. Liz Huston, a White House spokesperson, told NPR, “The American people gave President Trump a clear mandate to uproot waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government. In fact, Judge Hollander previously stated in a ruling that the Trump administration has “never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.” The same has been true of its access to data in other agencies.

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