It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
The involvement of Antonio Gracias, an investor who has known Elon Musk for two decades, suggests that Mr. Musk has made overhauling the Social Security Administration a priority.
Federal agencies were given a Thursday deadline to submit their plans for reductions in force, but many have not publicly released details.
In an interview with Larry Kudlow, Elon Musk claimed that fraud in Social Security and other major programs was “the big one to eliminate.”
The database includes millions of Americans who are probably dead but who have no death records. But they generally don’t collect checks.
Employees from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are gaining access to vast amounts of information held by federal agencies, even as lawsuits try to stop them.
The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data.
Federal employees and others in the capital have grown attached to work-from-home arrangements. But hybrid work may disappear in the second Trump era.