Summary
Michelle King, the top Social Security official, resigned after refusing Elon Musk’s request for sensitive records, including Social Security numbers and bank data.
Trump appointed Leland Dudek as acting commissioner and nominated Frank Bisignano for the role.
Nancy Altman of Social Security Works condemned DOGE’s request, warning, “I don’t think you can overstate how serious this breach is.”
DOGE’s similar attempts at the IRS and Treasury have sparked legal challenges over privacy concerns.
Americans: please stop stepping down. Have some backbone, stay in your place and do the fucking right thing? All you do with stepping down is making it easier to put some trump loyalist in place
Genuine Question, why step down and not hold the fort and be a massive pain to them?
You think they won’t fire them? Take a look around. Now you could say they should force them to fire them instead of resigning where they have some control, but the result is the same. It’s going to be lackeys all the way down either way.
Refuse. Sue. Demand arbitration. If you care, throw sand in the gears of their machine.
Lots of people who have been arbitrarily fire are suing. But that’ll take many months or years, and meanwhile they’re out. Not to mention that any of them Schmuck has called out on xitter are being harassed and threatened with violence.
She could have called the Union. Oh wait…
Alternatively, sow chaos and step down. Everything Trump tears down is something he could use to keep people complacent. Since he’s tearing down faster than he can rebuild we might even see an insurrection to topple the government and build something better. Holding out is just prolonging the decay and letting people accept the new norm of a dysfunctional government.
That’s not how this works.
That’s exactly how this works.