Warren, Blumenthal Press SSA Commissioner, Former DOGE Staffers on Alarming Whistleblower Disclosure Detailing Trump Admin Plot to “Kill Off” Millions in Social Security Database
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Home Newsroom Press Releases June 05, 2026 Warren, Blumenthal Press SSA Commissioner, Former DOGE Staffers on Alarming Whistleblower Disclosure Detailing Trump Admin Plot to “Kill Off” Millions in Social Security Database Lawmakers seek answers from former DOGE personnel about efforts to mark as dead millions of individuals in Social Security records as part of the Trump immigration enforcement agenda Text of Letter to Bisignano (PDF) | Text of Letter to Gracias (PDF) | Text of Letter to Koval (PDF) | Text of Letter to Rehling Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), pressed Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Frank Bisignano and three former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers on an alarming new whistleblower account detailing Trump administration plans to mark 2.7 million people as dead in a Social Security database as part of its immigration enforcement agenda. A former SSA career official has publicly come forward for the first time to share firsthand knowledge of actions DOGE officials took to “kill off” more than 6,000 immigrants in SSA’s records and its larger plans to mark as dead 2.7 million more individuals. The whistleblower, Jeremiah Schofield, has shared new details of conversations a DOGE staffer had about the specific motivation for this plan: either “the lives of these individuals would be ruined. . . and they would be driven to ‘self-deport’” or “they would have to go to a local Social Security office, at which point SSA field office staff would send them to DHS offices” where officials would “detain them for deportation.” “Donald Trump has waged war on Social Security, and DOGE has been the tip of the spear, sowing chaos and corruption everywhere,” said Senator Warren. “This looks like an illegal attempt by DOGE to weaponize Social Security to carry out Trump’s cruel immigration agenda.” “As always with the Trump Administration, cruelty is the point. Thanks to this brave whistleblower’s disclosure, we have more evidence that the Trump Administration used DOGE not just to recklessly slash government programs – they were looking for ways to purposefully hurt people, especially immigrants,” said Senator Blumenthal. “Senator Warren and I are demanding answers about how DOGE and the Trump Administration weaponized the Social Security Administration to carry out its lawless immigration enforcement agenda.” Senator Warren spearheaded the launch of Senate Democrats’ Social Security War Room , a coordinated effort to protect Social Security and fight back against Trump administr
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