Washington – The Interim Social Security Commissioner, Laland Dudek, is going back in a threat to stop operating at the agency after a federal judge blocked the staff in the efficiency department of Elon Musk’s government to access confidential data located in the agency.
The Reversion of Doubek occurs after the United States District Judge, Ellen Hollander, on Thursday granted a request from several union groups that seek to prevent the “duxes affiliates” from accessing the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including their social security numbers, medical records, birth and marriage certificates, credit card information and taxes.
Hollander said that Dege was involved in a “fishing expedition” for fraud based on “little more than suspicion” and said that the temporal organization “never identified or articulated even a single reason why the Doge team needs unlimited access to all SSA registration systems.”
Doubek, in a series of interviews after the judge’s decision, criticized the ruling to be too broad and threatened to terminate access to confidential data for each employee of the agency, arguing that everyone could be considered “duxes affiliates.”
“My anti-fraud team would be a me affiliated with Dogs. My Ti staff would be Doge’s affiliate,” Doubek said in an interview with Bloomberg News on Thursday. “As it is, I will follow it exactly and I will finish the access of all SSA employees to our IT systems.”
“Actually, I want to turn it off and let the courts discover how they want to direct a federal agency,” he added.
In a couple of cards on Friday, Hollander described the interpretation of Dudek of his “inaccurate” ruling, clarifying that his decision should not “have no relationship with ordinary operations in the SSA.”
“SSA employees who are not involved with the Doge team or in the work of the Doge team are not subject to the order. A Doge affiliate is defined in the order as a person who works or implements Doge’s agenda,” Hollander wrote.
Doubek hours later his threat returned.
“The Court issued a explanatory orientation on the Temporary Restriction Order (Tro) related to Doge employees and Doge’s activities in the Social Security Administration (SSA). Therefore, I am not closing the agency,” he said in a statement on Friday. “SSA employees and their work will continue under the tro.”
The predecessor of Dudek, Michelle King, left the agency last month after refusing to comply with Doge’s attempt to access delicate government records in the agency.
The Holland ruling is one of several worrying attempts of Dog employees to access private data in multiple federal agencies.
In February, a federal judge temporarily prevented Doge employees to access confidential information stored within the Treasury department after 19 state general prosecutors filed a lawsuit claiming that employees had no authority to access the information.
Another Doge employee in February received limited access to the anonymity information of the taxpayers housed within the IRS after reaching an agreement with the agency.
