[Half-Truth Full Lie] “Federal judge pushes back on acting Social Security head over threat to close agency.”
March 24, 2025
“Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek threatened Thursday evening to bar Social Security Administration employees from accessing its computer systems in response to a judge’s order blocking the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing sensitive taxpayer data…
Dudek initially told news outlets, including in a Friday interview with The Washington Post, that the judge’s decision to bar sensitive data access to “DOGE affiliates” was overly broad and that to comply, he might have to block virtually all SSA employees from accessing the agency’s computer systems…
[The Judge Said] “In fact, if others at SSA are involved with DOGE, as Mr. Dudek seems to claim,” she added, “then I was misled by counsel for the government.”…”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ar-AA1Bpp38
He didn’t “threaten to close.” He said the judge orders makes it impossible to operate. [paraphrased] In short the effect of the judges order would be closing if followed. Even worse it seems that the judge was lied to as well. This is insane.