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Wicked Blue

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Fri Jun 5, 2026, 10:11 AM 12 hrs ago

Whistleblower Exposes Trump Goons' Jaw-Dropping Social Security Plot [View all]

Source: Daily Beast

A Trump administration whistleblower says officials plotted to declare 2.7 million living individuals dead to push immigrants out of the country.

The scheme would have used the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) “Death Master File,” a database that flags the deceased, to wipe people off the financial grid, cutting off their pay, bank accounts, credit and benefits, the Washington Post reports.

Tech broligarch Elon Musk, who spearheaded the Trump administration’s controversial cost-cutting DOGE initiative last year, had pushed to bend the agency’s records to President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, the newspaper notes. The SSA had separately marked 6,100 immigrants as dead last year in an earlier, smaller push.

Jeremiah Schofield, a career official at the SSA who helped run the agency’s IT modernization before leaving in October, said the plans crystallized on a single conference call last year.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/whistleblower-exposes-how-trump-admin-plotted-to-mark-27-million-living-social-security-recipients-as-dead/

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