Key player in Trump’s drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health records
The US supreme court on Friday allowed members of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to access the sensitive records kept by the Social Security Administration while legal challenges play out.
The conservative-majority court, in an unsigned order with the three liberal justices dissenting, sided with the Trump administration in the appeal involving Doge, the team spearheaded by the billionaire Elon Musk.
The high court agreed to lift an injunction issued by a federal district court judge in Maryland, writing that the social security agency “may proceed” to grant members of the Doge team “access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work”.
Doge, which was created by executive order and is not an official government department, slashed its way through federal agencies as part of its mission to end the “tyranny of the bureaucracy”. Musk stepped back from his government work last month and is now publicly feuding with Trump.
