Since the arrival of the team from the Government’s Government’s Department of Government Elon Musk, the social security has been in a much more unstable place, which was widely clear, according to the acting commissioner of Leland’s Social Security Administration. “I do not want the system to collapse,” the spear said at a closed door meeting last week, according to a propublica recording. He also said that “it would be catastrophically for the people in our country” when Dodge has changed to his agency, which was as wide as Those who are in USAIDMinistry of Finance and elsewhere.
Dudek’s comments provided by a group of senior staff and supporters of social insurance, who visit both personally and practically, offer an extraordinary window to the agency’s top thinking in the changing first days of Trump’s second administration. First reported in the Washington Post Confirmation of Dudek that Dodge calls shots in social insurance and quotes several statements. But the full record shows that it went much further, citing not only in the actions taken by the agency the people he repeatedly called “DOGE Kids”, but also the broad contribution he received from the White House himself. If the meeting participant asked him why he would not harsher President Donald Trump Continuation of false claims about widespread social security fraud Like “BS,” Dudek replied, “So we posted to record what were the numbers on our site. This is what did you ever work with a man who manic depression?”
Throughout the meeting, Dudek made alarming statements about the dangers facing the social security system, but he did it strangely informally, discursive. This left several participants embarrassed to the final fate of the largest and most popular social program served by 73 million Americans. “We’re going to break something?” Dudek asked at one point, referring to what he did with social insurance data. “I don’t know.”
But then he said in a more encouraging tone, “They are learning. Let people learn. They will make mistakes.”
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Dudek embodies the dramatic life of life as a public official under Doge. For 25 years, he has been the highest faceless bureaucrat: an analyst at a level that bounced between federal agencies, ultimately planted in the Social Security Administration and focusing on information technology, cybersecurity and preventing fraud. It was largely unknown even within the agency. But in February he suddenly came into the eyes of the public when he was put on vacation to unexpectedly share information from Dogel. It turned out that he could lose his job, but then the Trump administration was unexpectedly moving to the post of acting commissioner. At the time, he seemed to be a devoted devotional agenda, writing – then removing – scores of the LinkedIdin Post, in which he expressed honor for “mocked the heads of agencies, shared the executive information and passed the team chain to connect Dage with people who get things.”
Now, in just a few weeks in office, he has held a much more ambivalent post not only to Dogel but also Trump. According to records last week, over the past week, Dudek made the choice he had done in recent weeks as the President’s agenda. This election included a minimum of 7,000 social security officers; Redemptions and early retirement offered only 57,000 employees, including those who work in Field offices and central centers that help the elderly and disabled navigate the program; cuts up to Services by determining disability; dissolution of a team that worked on improving custom experience site ssa.gov and the application process; Reduced agency traces across the country from 10 regional offices to four; cessation of 64 rental, including some field offices and office space; Social Insurance Customer Service Offers; And more.
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“I work with the president. I need to do what the president order me to do, “Dudk said, reported in the record.” I had to make a few tough elections, the choice I disagreed with, but the president wanted it, and I did it, “he added later.
Elsewhere, Dudek said that “I don’t want to dismiss anyone” but “many structural changes you saw as I do to the headquarters, I talked to the White House and the Dozh team for a long time … And that doesn’t mean I have no more difficult elections. The president has an agenda.
Dudek has also repeatedly rejected Trump’s claims about social security fraud, which the president strengthened a few hours after Dudek’s meeting Speech with Congress In which he meant that millions are probably over 100, they receive social security assistance. In one of the social security databases, there are truly 110-year-olds and elderly people who looked at the Dogean team, but these people “unable” -taei is not really paying benefits. “These are the records we have never interfered with,” he explained.
However, Dudek and two of his deputies, who also spoke at the meeting seemed hesitant to be more publicly resisting Trump’s wrongdoing. Press -secretary was confused to say they were proud of recent Press -Release in which the soft language they are obliquely contradicted Some of the false claims. The second official said that the story of Dogel about the dead people who receive benefits “got before us,” but “this is a victory that you no longer see (misinformation) because they are educated.”
The Press Social Security and the Social Security Administration, the White House and Elon Musk, did not respond to comment requests.
Dudeka’s comments come at a time when many social security officers feel confused in Dudek, his role compared to the dog and what it all means for the future of the Social Security Administration, according to propublica, with more than two dozen agency staff. Many said that since recent abbreviations in the agency have been made in potential, the public does not seem to understand the totality of what is happening with the 90th anniversary.
Dismissal-and up ghost potentially more than thousands of employees who take redemption on Friday-well-less attention to the difficult work of the elderly with low income and people with physical and intellectual disadvantages, According to propublica.
Meanwhile, Dodge, which reflected as a detachment of the genius of technological efficiency, actually undermined the effectiveness of providing social security services in several ways. As part of Dozh, several IT social insurance contracts have been canceled or scaled back. Five employees have now reported propublica that their technological systems seem to be destroyed almost every day, leading to a greater delay in the maintenance of beneficiaries. They have already said it was already a problem, but it became “much worse” and “not the norm”, – said two employees.
And under A policy that is in many agencies appliedSocial insurance staff of the frontline was limited by using their state-owned purchases for any amount above $ 1. This has become a significant problem in some field offices, especially if workers need to get or make copies of life records or original birth documents and the similar ones to process some social insurance requirements.
“The elections have consequences,” Dudek wrote in an email on March 1.
At the meeting last week, Dudek asked many of these organizational changes, the record said. As for the closure and consolidation of regional offices, as well as the reduction of a part of the agency that helps evaluate disability requirements, which already refused, he said: “It was definitely done at the administration level. It would not be my first advantage. I think we need to see what happens in terms of falling.”
“Again,” he said, “I work with the president. Dodge is part of this. “
Dudek, which was planned to perform only 15 minutes, said in a copy of the agenda, instead made about an hour, telling about everything that his mother’s upbringing, which depended on social insurance, to the 1989 book called “Bureaucracy” mentioned by Trump. He continued to fluctuate between the problems of the vulnerable recipients of the social security and follow some of what the dog tried to do in his agency.
“I really like to have children,” he said, adding that although they were unfamiliar with the “nuances” of social security, he tried to make them be more thought out. “They think about work on a different way.”
He confirmed that the members of the DOGE team had extensive access to the Americans and other personal data numbers, but he claimed that if they did anything illegal with this information, he would investigate them and potentially bring them accountable. He said he wanted to recruit resources for field offices and customer service, even when the first line workers received ransom proposals, like other employees.
Throughout Dudek, he emphasized that he wanted constructive feedback and an open conversation because he deeply cares about the social security administration and the people he serves. He was honest in his shortcomings: “I am in the role that I didn’t hope I would,” he said. “I’m an IT -chips and a guy with fraud.”
After all, Dudek will be replaced by Frank Bisignan, Trump’s long -term choice to launch the social security administration. Sometimes Dudek sounded fatalistic.
“I’m a villain,” he said in the record. “After that, I will not work. I understand. “
