DOGE Orders Layoffs at Social Security, Plans to Gut IT Team as Website Continually Breaks: Report

Despite Trump’s promises not to touch Social Security, Elon Musk’s DOGE has asked for serious cuts to the agency. Critics have accused the billionaire and his team of attempting to cripple America’s retirement system. Now, a new report states that, per DOGE’s orders, the Social Security Administration has plans to fire “potentially thousands” of staffers as soon as next week, in an effort to further downsize the agency and align it with Trump’s “efficiency” mandate. The Washington Post reports that Musk’s “government efficiency” team has demanded an extensive reduction of workforce throughout the agency. The newspaper describes the effort thusly: The cuts have been ordered by leaders of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, the U.S. DOGE Service, which reviewed the agency’s plans to shrink its workforce last week, according to four agency officials familiar with the conversations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans. DOGE determined ... Read full article.