Social Security Administration

January 27, 2021

Sean Brune

Raj Mathur, a political appointee, served as CIO of the Social Security Administration for most of the Trump administration before leaving last October. Since then, the agency says, career IT official Sean Brune has taken over in an official capacity and is continuing in the role into the Biden administration.

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