In a press release sent Tuesday, Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said “new disclosures revealed DOGE personnel may have broken federal law and exposed Americans’ most sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers.”
Included in Peters’ release were letters to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano and Michelle Anderson, SSA’s assistant inspector general for audit, both of which were dated Feb. 25. Peters, ranking member of the Senate’s HSGAC panel, requested records, risk assessments, communications and interviews connected to DOGE’s work at SSA.
“Given the gravity of the admissions in the court filing,” he continued, “as well as prior whistleblower disclosures, I call on you to immediately halt all DOGE work and data access at SSA; conduct a thorough review of the security of SSA datasets in any cloud environment, including Cloudflare; and track down any data that was inappropriately shared outside the agency by DOGE.”
Democracy Forward, which represents several labor groups in a lawsuit against SSA over DOGE’s “unprecedented data grab,” filed a notice of factual development Tuesday in response to the Post’s reporting. The new court filing said the revelations in the article “are consistent with the substantial issues … of disclosures beyond SSA and the federal government as a whole and the ongoing risk of further disclosures of such uncontrolled data.”
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