Top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden (Ore.) blasted the DOGE cost-cutting panel following a whistleblower report that alleged Americans’ financial and personal information was put on an unsecured cloud server.
He called it “a clear example of how the Trump administration is playing fast and loose with Americans’ most sensitive personal information.”
“[President] Trump and DOGE’s reckless treatment of Social Security data jeopardizes the financial security and personal safety of every single American,” Wyden said.
The whistleblower report was from Chuck Borges, the Social Security Administration's (SSA) chief data officer.
It said he had “become aware through reports to him of serious data security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as