Trump administration admits DOGE may have misused Americans’ Social Security data

Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may have accessed and shared Social Security numbers last year to help an advocacy group “overturn election results in certain states,” according to court documents.

The revelations, first reported by Politico, come as part of a series of corrections to previous testimony by Social Security Administration officials related to DOGE’s legal battle over access to Social Security data.

Court documents do not name the two DOGE members or the advocacy group.

In March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two members of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) DOGE team “requested to analyze state voter rolls obtained by the advocacy group,” Justice Department official Elizabeth Shapiro wrote.

“The stated goal of the advocacy groups was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn the election results in certain states,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro wrote that after these exchanges, one of the DOGE members, acting as an SSA employee, signed and sent a “voter data agreement” with the advocacy group.

DOGE members may have accessed personal information that was ruled off-limits by courts at the time and shared data on unauthorized “third-party” servers.

“At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees other than the involved members of the DOGE team were aware of their interactions with advocacy groups. They were also not aware of the ‘Voter Data Agreement,'” Shapiro wrote.

Shapiro said it’s unclear whether the two DOGE members ultimately shared the data, but the emails “suggest that DOGE team members may have been asked to assist advocacy groups by accessing SSA data for cross-checking against voter rolls.”

Shapiro said the SSA referred two DOGE employees for violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from using their public office for political activities.

Last year, a federal judge issued an order blocking DOGE members’ access to SSA’s systems, which contain SSNs, medical records, driver’s license numbers, tax information and other types of personal information. An SSA whistleblower then claimed that DOGE uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to vulnerable cloud servers.