Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., attends a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 29, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)
A new bill from Sens. Whitehouse, Warren and Wyden calls for performance and security audits into what DOGE left behind in its dives into SSA computer networks.
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, center, testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Legislative Branch subcommittee, while Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel, left, and Government Publishing Office Director Hugh Halpern, right, look on. The hearing was held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told Senate lawmakers that the watchdog is examining what the group has done with data in Treasury, Social Security and OPM networks.
Frank Bisignano, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration, appears at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Frank Bisignano, who previously called himself “fundamentally a DOGE person,” said PII in SSA systems “needs the highest level of scrutiny and protection.”
WOODLAWN, MARYLAND – MARCH 19: A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced plans to eliminate thousands of agency positions as well as numerous regional and local Social Security offices. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Under the order, all DOGE team members associated with the organization's work at SSA must disgorge and delete all non-anonymized personal information they obtained from SSA systems.
Investments totaling $50.2 million will allow both agencies to pursue digital initiatives aimed at enhancing customer experience and employee workflow.