Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data

A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

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For much of the last year, staffers who were initially part of the Department of Government Efficiency effort improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data on millions of Americans. The Trump administration hasn’t been able to answer how much data is at risk, what it was used for or why its unprecedented efforts to consolidate data is needed.

Those questions deepened last week, when the Social Security Administration said it discovered DOGE employees at

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