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1/31/25-3/24/25 Chief Information Officer 195,200

3/25/25-9/03/25 demoted to Senior Advisor $195,200 «Demoted and replaced by Scott Coulter in CIO role, he seems to be acting in a quasi co-CIO role since June»

9/03/25 promoted to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions) $195,200

Source:	Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Source:	SSA tech shop to be led by another DOGE associate NextGov, 3/25/25
Source:	Social Security Announces Executive Leadership Team Social Security Administration, 9/03/25

Akash Bobba

2/03/25 [as OPM-03] detailed from OPM

2/09/25 [as SSA-01] Expert NTE 2/08/26, ED-00, $90,025

4/29/25 detailed to USDA NTE 8/27/25 «Detail is from SSA not OPM, because SSA employee at this point»

Left govt 3/07/26 (guessed)

Source:	Detailing agreement between SSA, Education and OPM for ED-1 Document Cloud, 4/07/25
Source:	Akash Bobba Resume Document Cloud, 5/13/25
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 1" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	USDA Records Reflecting DOGE Economy Act Funding Transfers Document Cloud, 8/22/25

Leland Dudek

2/16/25-5/06/25 promoted to Acting Commissioner

5/06/25-6/XX/25 demoted «Replaced by Bisignano as confirmed commissioner, ProPublica reports dismissed in June»

Left govt 6/XX/25 (reported)

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Source:	Senate confirms Bisignano to lead Social Security Administration as agency faces DOGE overhaul The Associated Press, 5/06/25
Source:	The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security Pro Publica, 9/08/25

Scott Coulter

2/18/25-3/23/25 [as SSA-02] detailed from NASA NTE 2/18/26, reimbursed hourly, maximum of $120,579

3/24/25-c.6/05/25 [as SSA-02] Chief Information Officer «Was listed as CIO on May 30, but Aram took over in June. WSJ reports on removal of SSA employee back to NASA in June. Aram/Russo listed as co-CIOs on 6/6»

Source:	Onboarding documents at SSA for "Employee 2" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Detail from NASA to SSA for "Employee 2" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Onboarding documents at SSA for "Employee 2" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	The Fight Between Musk Acolytes and the White House for Control of DOGE The Wall Street Journal, 6/08/25

Marko Elez

2/18/25 [as SSA-07] detailed from DOL reimbursed up to $71,000 «MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA»

Source:	Detailing agreement from DOL to SSA for "Employee 7" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 7" Document Cloud, 4/09/25

Cole Killian

2/18/25 [as SSA-05] detailed from DOGE NTE 7/04/26 «limited onboarding docs, court docs about them»

Left govt 6/27/25 (inferred)

Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 5" Document Cloud, 4/09/25

Ethan Shaotran

2/18/25 [as SSA-10] detailed from GSA NTE 2/26/26

Left govt 1/XX/26 (self-reported)

Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 10" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Detailing agreement for "Employee 10" from the GSA to SSA Document Cloud, 4/09/25

Aram Moghaddassi

2/22/25 [as SSA-03] detailed from DOL reimbursed up to $71,000 «MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA»

6/05/25?-9/03/25 promoted to Chief Information Officer

9/03/25-1/XX/26 promoted to Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) «Had reportedly been in an informal co-CIO role with Mike Russo since June, now made official»

Left govt 1/XX/26 (self-reported)

Source:	Detailing agreement from DOL to SSA for "Employee 3" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Onboarding documents for SSA "Employee 3" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Social Security Administration makes another DOGE switch at CIO FedScoop, 6/28/25
Source:	LinkedIn profile for Aram Moghaddassi LinkedIn,
Source:	Social Security Announces Executive Leadership Team Social Security Administration, 9/03/25
Source:	Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now Wired Magazine, 4/16/26

Antonio Gracias

2/23/25-7/01/25 [as SSA-04] Expert NTE 2/22/26, ED-00, volunteer

Left govt 7/01/25 (verified)

Onboarding documentation at OPM for "Employee 4" Document Cloud, 3/07/25

Jon Koval

2/23/25 [as SSA-06] Expert NTE 2/22/26, ED-00, volunteer

4/15/25 detailed to DOJ «assuming detail from SSA»

Left govt 7/XX/25 (guessed)

Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 6" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept. The New York Times, 4/18/25

Payton Rehling

2/23/25-7/XX/25 [as SSA-09] Expert NTE 2/22/26, ED-00, volunteer

date unknown detailed to DHS

4/15/25 likely detailed to DOJ

Left govt 7/XX/25 (inferred)

Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 9" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	LinkedIn profile for Payton Rehling LinkedIn,
Source:	The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE The New York Times, 2/27/25
Source:	Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept. The New York Times, 4/18/25

Mark Steffensen

2/25/25-2/27/25 Senior Advisor $195,200

2/27/25 promoted to Acting General Counsel $195,200 «promoted within two days of being appointed»

Source:	Bluesky post by Chris Geidner Law Dork, 2/21/25
Source:	Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source:	Bluesky post by Chris Geidner Law Dork, 2/28/25

Nikhil Rajpal

2/26/25 [as SSA-08] detailed from OPM NTE 2/26/26

Left govt 7/02/25 (guessed)

Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 8" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	MOU for Detail of "Employee 8" from OPM to Social Security Document Cloud, 4/09/25

John Solly

3/16/25-9/XX/25 [as SSA-11] Expert NTE 3/15/26, ED-00, $162,672 «LinkedIn reports left SSA on 9/2025»

Left govt 9/XX/25 (self-reported)

Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 11" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	LinkedIn profile for John Solly LinkedIn,

Frank Bisignano

5/06/25 Commissioner

Senate confirms Bisignano to lead Social Security Administration as agency faces DOGE overhaul The Associated Press, 5/06/25

Edward Coristine

c.6/23/25 SGE

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration Wired Magazine, 6/26/25

Tai Groot

7/XX/25 likely detailed from NDS IT Cybersecurity Expert «Guessing a detail because of NDS link»

LinkedIn profile for Tai Groot LinkedIn,

Systems

IRON

IRON Website

3/12/25 1 users

I have not found any public details about this system. It was named in internal emails from SSA as a way for Cole Killian to investigate people beyound a reasonable age whould could be declared dead.

:	3/12/25- Cole Killian
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25

MBR

Master Beneficiary Record

3/17/25 3 users

A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits

:	3/17/25- Jon Koval, Marko Elez, Payton Rehling (read access) grant by Mike Russo
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
DOGE Project:	Immigration

NUMIDENT

Numerical Identification System

2/10/25 5 users

NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody

:	2/10/25- Akash Bobba (read access) grant by Mike Russo
:	3/17/25- Jon Koval, Marko Elez, Payton Rehling (read access) grant by Mike Russo
:	c.6/23/25- Edward Coristine (read access)
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
Source:	Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress Senate Homeland Security and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, 9/25/25
Source:	‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration Wired Magazine, 6/26/25
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

PSSNAP

Phone Social Security Number Application Process data

3/14/25 2 users with elevated access

SSN application process data (Phone). This is a data extract file rather than an independent system.

:	3/14/25- Payton Rehling, Aram Moghaddassi (read-write access) grant by Leland Dudek
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
DOGE Project:	Fraud

SSR

Supplemental Security Record master records

3/17/25 3 users

A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program

:	3/17/25- Jon Koval, Marko Elez, Payton Rehling (read access) grant by Mike Russo
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
DOGE Project:	Immigration

Events

c.12/15/24

A contractor at the Social Security Administration arranges an introduction for Leland Dudek to meet Steve Davis.

Question:	Fuzz: Date is just given as “mid-December”
Person:	Leland Dudek, Steve Davis
Source:	The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security The New York Times, 6/16/25
Agency:	SSA

1/30/25

Leland Dudek reaches out to Tiffany Flick, the Associate Director of Budget, Facilities and Security to inform her that Mike Russo and Scott Coulter would be onboarding for DOGE. He was a mid-level employee at the time who would not normally be coordinating inter-agency details like this.

Person:	Leland Dudek, Mike Russo, Scott Coulter
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	DOGE, SSA

1/31/25

Mike Russo starts as Chief Information Officer at SSA.

Appointed:	Mike Russo 1/31/25-3/24/25
Position Title:	Chief Information Officer
Salary:	195,200
Source:	Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25

2/03/25

Akash Bobba detailed from OPM to SSA

OPM Detailed To: SSA Akash Bobba 2/03/25
Source:	Detailing agreement between SSA, Education and OPM for ED-1 Document Cloud, 4/07/25

Unidentified employee SSA-01 (Akash Bobba) starts working at the SSA with the title of Expert and an annual salary of $90,025.

Person:	Akash Bobba
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-5 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA

Mike Russo officially joins the agency as its new CIO. He then immediately requests that Akash Bobba should be rapidly onboarded into the agency (but there are issues with Bobba’s background check).

Person:	Akash Bobba, Mike Russo
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

2/07/25

After gaining access to the PAM DB system for payments, DOGE members at the Treasury department discover what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. These discrepancies lead to Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud on his Twitter feed, but later analysis by SSA staff reveal these were cases of DOGE not understanding how the data was structured.

Question:	Fuzz: article just reports this as early Feb; but Musk tweets said he was informed on 2/7
Source:	The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security The New York Times, 6/16/25
Agency:	SSA, Treas.
DOGE Project:	Fraud

2/09/25

Akash Bobba starts as Expert at SSA.

Appointed:	Akash Bobba 2/09/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Salary:	$90,025
Source:	Akash Bobba Resume Document Cloud, 5/13/25
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 1" Document Cloud, 4/09/25

Elon Musk posts more tweets claiming to have discovered sources of “massive fraud” within the SSA. These appear to be a misunderstanding of how erroneous records that exist in the SSA database are already filtered out from receiving benefits. Instead, he assumed that all erroneous records had received benefits and thus this was the massive fraud.

Person:	Elon Musk
Source:	Tweet by Elon Musk X.com, 2/09/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

2/10/25

Akash Bobba is granted basic access to NUMIDENT at SSA.

System Access:	NUMIDENT: Numerical Identification System
:	read, 2/10/25 Akash Bobba
Note:	NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

Mike Russo summons his new ally Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain data discrepancies identified by Elon Musk. Leland convenes a team of dozens of SSA engineers who review the data from the Treasury department and document fallacies of DOGE’s reasoning in a memo. Mike Russo rejects the memo’s conclusions by declaring that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanding that Akash Bobba must do his own analysis.

Person:	Akash Bobba, Leland Dudek, Mike Russo
Source:	The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security The New York Times, 6/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

Mike Russo and the DOGE chief of staff Steve Davis both demand that Akash Bobba be onboarded at Social Security Administration before midnight, bypassing the usual background security checks.

Person:	Akash Bobba, Mike Russo, Steve Davis
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

According to the testimony of a whistleblower, the nominatee for agency director, Frank Bisignano, orders through back channels that agency leadership must onboard Mark Steffensen as an attorney at the SSA. He reportedly had coerced senior SSA leadership to not hire anybody into roles without his explicit approval.

Person:	Frank Bisignano, Mark Steffensen
Source:	Social Security Whistleblower statement to Sen. Ron Wyden The Senate Finance Committee, 3/24/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

CIO Mike Russo convenes his own internal informational group in SSA where he has conversations with DOGE staff at other agencies about novel ideas for sharing sensitive SSA data. He does not inform Acting SSA Director, Michelle King.

Person:	Leland Dudek, Mike Russo
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

2/14/25

Leland Dudek is placed on administrative leave and is placed under investigation that he committed inappropriate actions to assist DOGE’s activities at the agency.

Person:	Leland Dudek
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA

2/15/25

Frustrated with the questions and concerns raised by Akash Bobba about technical issues with the sandbox NUMIDENT data, Mike Russo complains directly to the Chief CIO in the office of the OMB.

Person:	Akash Bobba, Mike Russo
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

SSA IT staff express concern to Acting Commissioner Michelle King that Akash Bobba is accessing highly sensitive data provided by SSA remotely from an insecure location (the DOGE enclave within OPM). This is in violation of the terms of his signed access agreement.

Person:	Akash Bobba
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

2/16/25

Leland Dudek promoted to Acting Commissioner at SSA

Promotion:	Leland Dudek 2/16/25-5/06/25
Position Title:	Acting Commissioner
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25

Elon Musk posts a tweet claiming that DOGE had uncovered fraud of millions of people older than 120 who were collecting social security payments: “Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.” This data issue is real, but there is no indication that millions of people were receiving improper payments

Person:	Elon Musk
Source:	Tweet by Elon Musk X.com, 2/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

The acting director of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, receives an email from the White House that she has been fired and Leland Dudek is now the Acting Commissioner.

Person:	Leland Dudek
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 22-10 Court Document, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

2/18/25

Marko Elez detailed from DOL to SSA

DOL Detailed To: SSA Marko Elez 2/18/25
Source:	Detailing agreement from DOL to SSA for "Employee 7" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 7" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Note:	MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA

Ethan Shaotran detailed from GSA to SSA

GSA Detailed To: SSA Ethan Shaotran 2/18/25
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 10" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Detailing agreement for "Employee 10" from the GSA to SSA Document Cloud, 4/09/25

Scott Coulter detailed from NASA to SSA

NASA Detailed To: SSA Scott Coulter 2/18/25-3/23/25
Source:	Onboarding documents at SSA for "Employee 2" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Detail from NASA to SSA for "Employee 2" Document Cloud, 4/09/25

Cole Killian detailed from DOGE to SSA

DOGE Detailed To: SSA Cole Killian 2/18/25
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 5" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Note:	limited onboarding docs, court docs about them

Multiple unidentified DOGE staffers start working at SSA on the same day. SSA-02 (Scott Coulter) is detailed from NASA. SSA-07 (Marko Elez) is detailed from the DOL. SSA-10 (Ethan Shaotran) arrives from the GSA, and SSA-05 (Cole Killian) is detailed from DOGE itself.

Person:	Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Marko Elez, Scott Coulter
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-5 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA

2/19/25

SSA CIO Mike Russo emails Leland Dudek request access to SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for several “members of [his] team.” This includes access to the NUMIDENT list of all social security records, Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) and Supplemental Security Record (SSR) master records, as well as copies of SSA payment files which SSA transmits to the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) for payment.

Person:	Leland Dudek, Mike Russo
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Spending

2/20/25

Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).

Person:	Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Leland Dudek, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal
Source:	The curious case of Leland Dudek The Handbasket, 2/20/25
Agency:	SSA

2/22/25

Aram Moghaddassi detailed from DOL to SSA

DOL Detailed To: SSA Aram Moghaddassi 2/22/25
Source:	Detailing agreement from DOL to SSA for "Employee 3" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	Onboarding documents for SSA "Employee 3" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Note:	MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA

Unidentfied alias SSA-03 (Aram Moghaddassi) is detailed over from the Department of Labor

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-5 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA

2/23/25

Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval, and Payton Rehling start as Expert at SSA.

Appointed:	Antonio Gracias 2/23/25-7/01/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Salary:	Volunteer
Source:	Onboarding documentation at OPM for "Employee 4" Document Cloud, 3/07/25

Appointed:	Jon Koval 2/23/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the CIO
Salary:	Volunteer
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 6" Document Cloud, 4/09/25

Appointed:	Payton Rehling 2/23/25-7/XX/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the CIO
Salary:	Volunteer
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 9" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	LinkedIn profile for Payton Rehling LinkedIn,

Social Security Administration onboards 3 more unidentified DOGE staffers – SSA-06 (Jon Koval), SSA-04 (Antonio Gracias), and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) – as volunteers with the title of Expert.

Person:	Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval, Payton Rehling
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-5 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA

2/24/25

The Social Security Administration eliminates an internal team of technologists called the Office of Transformation that was working to modernize SSA processes. Although officially made by Leland Dudek, this direction was given by Scott Coulter.

Person:	Leland Dudek, Scott Coulter
Source:	The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security Pro Publica, 9/08/25
Source:	Social Security Eliminates Wasteful Department Social Security Administration, 2/24/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

2/25/25

Mark Steffensen starts as Senior Advisor at SSA.

Appointed:	Mark Steffensen 2/25/25-2/27/25
Position Title:	Senior Advisor, Office of the Commissioner
Salary:	$195,200
Source:	Bluesky post by Chris Geidner Law Dork, 2/21/25
Source:	Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 1/09/26

2/26/25

Nikhil Rajpal detailed from OPM to SSA

OPM Detailed To: SSA Nikhil Rajpal 2/26/25
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 8" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	MOU for Detail of "Employee 8" from OPM to Social Security Document Cloud, 4/09/25

One more unidentified DOGE staffer, SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal), is detailed to SSA from OPM.

Person:	Nikhil Rajpal
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-5 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA

2/27/25

Mark Steffensen promoted to Acting General Counsel at SSA

Promotion:	Mark Steffensen 2/27/25
Position Title:	Acting General Counsel, Office of the Commissioner
Salary:	$195,200
Source:	Bluesky post by Chris Geidner Law Dork, 2/28/25
Note:	promoted within two days of being appointed

Ethan Shaotran contacts Leland Dudek to inform him that DOGE had identified roughly 3 dozen federal contracts in Maine as “nonessential” and that “we should cancel them” as retribution for the Maine governor publicly countering abuse from the President over transgender athletes. Two of those contracts are for Social Security services in the State.

Person:	Ethan Shaotran, Leland Dudek
Source:	The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security The New York Times, 6/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Anti-DEI, Spending

2/28/25

Via email, SSA-05 (Cole Killian) at the DOGE team at SSA requests and receives approval from Leland Dudek to run a program to identify unrealistically old people in the SSA database. Scott Coulter is cc’ed on the approval.

Person:	Cole Killian, Leland Dudek, Scott Coulter
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

2/XX/25

A whistleblower reports attending a meeting with USDS Administrator Amy Gleason, the SSA CIO Scott Coulter and several other DOGE staffers at the agency. The whistleblower reports that Gleason did not contribute to the meeting and was clearly not directing DOGE activities at the agency.

Question:	Fuzz: time is just given as February
Person:	Amy Gleason, Scott Coulter
Source:	Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress Senate Homeland Security and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, 9/25/25
Agency:	DOGE, SSA

3/01/25

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE has handled data at several agencies.

Source:	Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited Wired Magazine, 4/09/25
Agency:	DHS, DOL, Ed., OPM, SSA, Treas.

3/03/25

An unidentified member of the DOGE team at the SSA emailed a password-protected and encrypted file to DHS but also included Steve Davis at DOGE and an unidentified DOGE team member at the Department of Labor (possibly Marko Elez or Aram Moghaddassi who were detailed to SSA from DOL). SSA staff believes it contained sensitive PII of approximately 1000 individuals, but the Chief Information Office has been unable to determine more. Notably, the CIO role for SSA has been held by a rotation of several DOGE staffers since February.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Marko Elez, Steve Davis
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 197 Court Document, 1/16/26
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration

3/04/25

In a meeting, Dudek stresses again that DOGE will make mistakes and also admits “I am receiving decisions that are made without my input. I have to effectuate those decisions,” suggesting DOGE is in charge at the agency.

Person:	Leland Dudek
Source:	DOGE is driving Social Security cuts and will make mistakes, acting head says privately The Washington Post, 3/06/25
Agency:	SSA

3/07/25

After political blowback causes SSA to reverse its decision to cancel some contracts for the state of Maine, Leland Dudek posts an offical apology claiming it was his decision to cancel the contracts. This is a deliberate misdirection from DOGE’s role in the action.

Source:	Statement from Lee Dudek, Acting Commissioner: Correcting Recent Decision Impacting People of Maine Social Security Administration, 3/07/25
Agency:	SSA

Starting from this data and continuing until March 17, members of the DOGE team at SSA were using servers at Cloudflare to share SSA data (the exact product is not identified, but it could be the D1 system for SQL databases). Needless to say, Cloudflare is not approved by SSA for storing sensitive data, and SSA staff have been unable to determine what data was shared and if it is still hosted on Cloudflare systems.

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 197 Court Document, 1/16/26
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Immigration, Impunity

3/12/25

Cole Killian is granted basic access to IRON at SSA.

System Access:	IRON: IRON Website
:	unknown, 3/12/25 Cole Killian
Note:	I have not found any public details about this system. It was named in internal emails from SSA as a way for Cole Killian to investigate people beyound a reasonable age whould could be declared dead.

In an inventory of system access on March 12, SSA staff determined the following access had been granted before it was revoked on March 24th. Three DOGE team members had been granted access to a workforce system. Two were granted access to security systems to revoke employee access to systems and facilities. Six DOGE team members were granted access to a workspace to share data among each other. Two DOGE members had access to a data visualization tool which could provide PII. And two DOGE employees were given expanded access to the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 197 Court Document, 1/16/26
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Anti-Personnel

In a sworn declaration, Florence Felix-Lawson notes “the SSA DOGE Team currently consists of ten SSA employees: four SSA special government employees (Employees 1, 4, 6, and 9) and six detailees to SSA from other government agencies and offices (Employees 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10)”

Person:	Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Aram Moghaddassi, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
Source:	AFL-CIO v. DOL, doc 53-1 Court Document, 3/13/25
Agency:	SSA

Multiple SSA employees told ProPublica, their tech systems now seem to be crashing nearly every day, leading to more delays in serving beneficiaries.

Source:	“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump Pro Publica, 6/12/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

3/13/25

Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA

Person:	Akash Bobba, Antonio Gracias, Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran, Jon Koval, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling, Scott Coulter
Source:	These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration Wired Magazine, 3/13/25
Agency:	SSA

3/14/25

Payton Rehling is granted elevated access to PSSNAP at SSA.

System Access:	PSSNAP: Phone Social Security Number Application Process data
:	read-write, 3/14/25 Payton Rehling
Note:	SSN application process data (Phone). This is a data extract file rather than an independent system.
DOGE Project:	Fraud

Aram Moghaddassi is granted elevated access to PSSNAP at SSA.

System Access:	PSSNAP: Phone Social Security Number Application Process data
:	read-write, 3/14/25 Aram Moghaddassi
Note:	SSN application process data (Phone). This is a data extract file rather than an independent system.
DOGE Project:	Fraud

Leland Dudek grants approval for SSA-05 (Cole Killian) to run the proposed tool for modifying the death data records to eliminate implausibly old people. DOGE was convinced these data errors were a massive source of fraud, despite evidence to the contrary from SSA staff and concerns that correcting the data would be a waste of time.

Person:	Cole Killian
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

3/16/25

John Solly starts as Expert at SSA.

Appointed:	John Solly 3/16/25-9/XX/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Salary:	$162,672
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 11" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	LinkedIn profile for John Solly LinkedIn,
Note:	LinkedIn reports left SSA on 9/2025

3/17/25

Marko Elez, Jon Koval, and Payton Rehling are granted basic access to 3 systems at SSA.

System Access:	MBR: Master Beneficiary Record
:	read, 3/17/25 Jon Koval
:	read, 3/17/25 Marko Elez
:	read, 3/17/25 Payton Rehling
Note:	A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits
DOGE Project:	Immigration

System Access:	NUMIDENT: Numerical Identification System
:	read, 3/17/25 Jon Koval
:	read, 3/17/25 Marko Elez
:	read, 3/17/25 Payton Rehling
Note:	NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

System Access:	SSR: Supplemental Security Record master records
:	read, 3/17/25 Jon Koval
:	read, 3/17/25 Marko Elez
:	read, 3/17/25 Payton Rehling
Note:	A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program
DOGE Project:	Immigration

The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team at Social Security discovers that DOGE’s access to the EDW was not authorized through the standard process.

Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

3/19/25

Leland Dudek approves access for “Employee 9” of the DOGE team at SSA to view some additional schemas in the PSSNAP database of Social Security Applications conducted over the phone.

Person:	Payton Rehling
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 121-3 Court Document, 4/09/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

3/20/25

Leland Dudek threatens to shut down the entire Social Security Administration instead of complying with the court order to block access for DOGE. He reportedly reaches this conclusion based on the advice of two unnamed senior DOGE leaders.

Person:	Leland Dudek
Source:	The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security The New York Times, 6/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

In a ruling for AFL-CIO vs. SSA, Judge Hollander grants a temporary restraining order enjoining DOGE from having any access to SSA systems or installing any software as well as ordering them to delete any data in their possession.

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 48 Court Document, 3/20/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

3/21/25

Less than 24 hours after DOGE’s access was revoked by the temporary restraining order, senior members of the EDW team receive emails ordering them to restore access for two members of the DOGE team. Furthermore, they were ordered to grant them additional expanded privileges.

Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

3/24/25

Scott Coulter starts as Chief Information Officer at SSA.

Appointed:	Scott Coulter 3/24/25-c.6/05/25
Position Title:	Chief Information Officer
Source:	Onboarding documents at SSA for "Employee 2" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	The Fight Between Musk Acolytes and the White House for Control of DOGE The Wall Street Journal, 6/08/25
Note:	Was listed as CIO on May 30, but Aram took over in June. WSJ reports on removal of SSA employee back to NASA in June. Aram/Russo listed as co-CIOs on 6/6

After members of an unidentified political advocacy group contacted two members of the DOGE team at SSA, one of the DOGE members signed a Voter Data Agreement to share data. The group was looking for data to accuse states of fraud to overturn election results. The DOGE team member did not consult SSA lawyers or follow any mandatory clearance procedures for sharing data with outside entities. It is unclear if they sent data, but the two employees were referred for investigation of violating the Hatch Act in December 2025, which forbids government officials from partisan political activities.

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 197 Court Document, 1/16/26
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration, Impunity

The Social Security Administration’s Office of Information Security (OIS) revokes access for DOGE members again, restoring enforcement of the temporary restraining order.

Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA

Mike Russo is abruptly removed from his CIO position by the Trump administration. This is rumored to be retribution for complying quickly with the judicial ruling to remove DOGE access.

Person:	Mike Russo
Source:	Inside DOGE’s push to defy a court order and access Social Security data The Washington Post, 4/15/25
Agency:	SSA

An unidentified member of the DOGE team at Social Security Administration was running queries against the NUMIDENT data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse the morning on the same day that access was scheduled to be revoked.

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 197 Court Document, 1/16/26
Agency:	SSA

3/25/25

Mike Russo demoted to Senior Advisor at SSA

Demotion:	Mike Russo 3/25/25-9/03/25
Position Title:	Senior Advisor
Salary:	$195,200
Source:	SSA tech shop to be led by another DOGE associate NextGov, 3/25/25
Note:	Demoted and replaced by Scott Coulter in CIO role, he seems to be acting in a quasi co-CIO role since June

3/26/25

During his confirmation hearing, Frank Bisignano, the nominee to run the agency, confirms that he had coordinated with Michael Russo but denied a whistleblower report that he had ordered the appointment of other DOGE staff there.

Person:	Frank Bisignano, Leland Dudek, Mike Russo
Source:	Democratic senator grills Trump nominee over DOGE access to Social Security systems The Hill, 3/25/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

3/27/25

In an interview on FOX News, Aram Moghaddassi mangles a statistic that 40% of fraud involved a call to a service center to change direct deposit information. He instead announces that 40% of all calls to the SSA are fraudlent. The claim is amplified across conservative media and the White House refuses to correct.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi
Source:	The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security The New York Times, 6/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

In a sworn declaration, Leland Dudek justifies access to PII in SSA records for SSA-01 (Akash Bobba), SSA-05 (Cole Killian), SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal) and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) on the DOGE team. This access is granted through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.

Person:	Akash Bobba, Cole Killian, Leland Dudek, Nikhil Rajpal, Payton Rehling
Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 62-1 Court Document, 3/27/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

The Social Security Administration ends a Biden-era rule that limited clawbacks for overpayments to 10% per check (to prior policy of taking entire checks).

Source:	Social Security's overpayments policy takes effect today. Experts say it could hurt seniors. CBS News, 3/27/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

3/28/25

As part of an interview on Fox News, Aram Moghaddassi spreads an incorrect statistic that states 40% of all phones calls to SSA are from people committing fraud.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi
Source:	Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud The Washington Post, 4/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

The Deputy CIO for Infrastructure/IT at SSA acknowledges an increased number of network crashes due to a newly-introduced fraud checking system created and rushed into production by DOGE.

Source:	Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff The Washington Post, 4/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, IT Modernization

Reports emerge that DOGE is planning to rewrite the entire COBOL codebase for Social Security to Java in months using generative AI.

Person:	Steve Davis
Source:	DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Wired Magazine, 3/28/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	IT Modernization

3/30/25

During campaign rallies in Wisconsin, Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias publish a chart claiming to show an increase in social security numbers being granted to noncitizens as evidence of voting fraud or benefits fraud by immigrants. The problem is that these numbers are necessary for immigrants to work in roles, and are used for paying taxes rather than receiving benefits, and the statistics were from a program to replace a more cumbersome process for assigning SSN IDs. Based on this interpretation, the Trump Administration argued for a change where applicants would have to instead visit an already overstretched field office, a change that is likely to both reduce tax income from immigrant workers and increase the per-person cost from $8 to $51,000.

Person:	Antonio Gracias, Elon Musk
Source:	Musk floats falsehoods about Social Security, immigrants as DOGE seeks changes The Washington Post, 4/01/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

3/XX/25

Aram Moghaddassi writes to Florida officials to state “we’re working on SAVE access for Florida law enforcement now.” He also requests information from Florida, claiming that ICE “has several leads on non-citizen voting in Florida and would like to work with Florida to investigate and prosecute these cases.”

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi
Source:	New Docs Show DHS Gathering Driver’s License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade Mother Jones, 11/14/25
Agency:	ICE, SSA, USCIS
DOGE Project:	Immigration

4/01/25

Alarmed at the viral spread of DOGE’s false claim that 40% of all calls to Social Security are fraud, agency staff at SSA draft a public statement to correct the errors in the claim. They are specifically ordered by Katie Miller not to release it. She asserts “the number is 40 percent.”

Person:	Katie Miller, Leland Dudek
Source:	The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security The New York Times, 6/16/25
Agency:	DOGE, SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

4/02/25

In an interview on Fox, Antonio Gracias makes misleading claims that DOGE had discovered widespread voting fraud through joining social security data and state voter rolls.

Person:	Antonio Gracias
Source:	How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives National Public Radio, 4/11/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Immigration

4/03/25

Social Security employees received an offer from the human resources department for voluntary reassignments to “mission-critical” front-line roles in call services and hearing offices to replace staff that were eliminated.

Source:	Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin The Washington Post, 4/04/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Anti-Personnel

4/04/25

DOGE staffers at SSA declare the need for widespread Reductions-in-Force (RIFs) at the agency, despite a previous reduction in staffing of 7000 people and notable degradations in service. Among other cuts, they suggest removing 800 people from the IT department of 4000.

Source:	Social Security faces thousands more job cuts even with service in tailspin The Washington Post, 4/04/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Elimination, Anti-Personnel

4/07/25

After some qualms about its legality, Leland Dudek signs two memos authorizing sharing data from the Social Security Administration that would allow DHS and ICE to locate immigrants who had been paying taxes to Social Security (despite not being able to collect it).

Person:	Leland Dudek
Source:	Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead The Washington Post, 4/12/25
Agency:	DHS, ICE, SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration

The Post confirms with multiple source that Social Security’s website has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages ranging from 20 minutes to an entire day. They speculate this is due to the introduction of an expanded fraud check system created by DOGE that wasn’t tested for scalability before being deployed.

Source:	Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff The Washington Post, 4/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, IT Modernization

4/08/25

Aram Moghaddassi adds 6300 names of suspected immigrants to the “death master file” as a way of forcing them to “self-deport” by making it impossible to use financial products. This list included the names of 7 minors.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Scott Coulter
Source:	Social Security Lists Thousands of Migrants as Dead to Prompt Them to ‘Self-Deport’ The New York Times, 4/10/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration

4/10/25

102 more names of living people are added to the Master Death File at SSA to destroy their ability to participate in society and to “self-deport” as a result.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Scott Coulter
Source:	Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead The Washington Post, 4/12/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration

Greg Pearre, a senior career executive overseeing technologists at the SSA, is forced out of his office by security guards after clashing with CIO Scott Coulter and calling his plan to forcibly declare immigrants dead both illegal and cruel.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Scott Coulter
Source:	Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead The Washington Post, 4/12/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration, Impunity

4/11/25

The Social Security Agency is reportedly shifting all its official communications exclusively to X.

Source:	The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X Wired Magazine, 4/11/25
Agency:	SSA

4/12/25?

The Social Security Administration shares sensitive information on 100,000 people with DHS, including their addresses, social security numbers, birth and death dates and bank information. Leland Dudek reports this request was made via a phone call late on a Saturday night with the justification that it was needed for a criminal investigation.

Question:	Fuzz: Date isn’t given, assuming this is after Leland Dudek signed data sharing agreement, but it’s possible agreement was retroactive cover
Person:	Leland Dudek
Source:	He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career. The Washington Post, 10/20/25
Agency:	DHS, SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration

4/14/25

The Trump Administration files a formal motion to protect the identities of DOGE staff at the agency in filings. This explains the redactions of DOGE names in filings.

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 134 Court Document, 4/14/25
Agency:	SSA

4/15/25

Jon Koval and Payton Rehling detailed from SSA to DOJ

SSA Detailed To: DOJ Jon Koval 4/15/25
Source:	Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept. The New York Times, 4/18/25
Note:	assuming detail from SSA

SSA? Detailed To: DOJ Payton Rehling 4/15/25
Source:	Top DOGE Officials Moved From Social Security Administration to Justice Dept. The New York Times, 4/18/25

4/17/25

Social Security introduces a new AI chatbot to help with general agency tasks but built from general OpenAI models and not trained on SSA data or content.

Source:	SSA is rolling out a new chatbot for employees NextGov, 4/17/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	IT Modernization

4/18/25

Some immigrants have been forced to prove they aren’t dead after being added to the Master Death File in an attempt to force them to “self-deport.” The White House had falsely claimed nobody was really declared dead.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Scott Coulter
Source:	Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label The Washington Post, 4/18/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration

4/23/25

DOGE has reportedly added 10 million records into the Death Master File since March, both as part of addressing errors in the NUMIDENT files as well as deliberate effort to harm immigrants from being able to interact with the financial industry. As a reuslt, some very alive Americans have been declared dead by DOGE.

Source:	When government thinks you’re dead, it upends lives. DOGE may make it worse. The Washington Post, 4/23/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Immigration

4/29/25

Akash Bobba detailed from SSA to USDA

SSA Detailed To: USDA Akash Bobba 4/29/25
Source:	USDA Records Reflecting DOGE Economy Act Funding Transfers Document Cloud, 8/22/25
Note:	Detail is from SSA not OPM, because SSA employee at this point

c.4/30/25

Social Security introduces a new AI-based agent for handling phone calls to 350 field offices in the Southeast and Northeast regions. It frustrates many users attempting to reach an actual person for assistance.

Source:	How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring The Washington Post, 5/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	IT Modernization

5/06/25

Frank Bisignano starts as Commissioner at SSA.

Appointed:	Frank Bisignano 5/06/25
Position Title:	Commissioner
Source:	Senate confirms Bisignano to lead Social Security Administration as agency faces DOGE overhaul The Associated Press, 5/06/25

Leland Dudek demoted at SSA

Demotion:	Leland Dudek 5/06/25-6/XX/25
Source:	Senate confirms Bisignano to lead Social Security Administration as agency faces DOGE overhaul The Associated Press, 5/06/25
Source:	The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security Pro Publica, 9/08/25
Note:	Replaced by Bisignano as confirmed commissioner, ProPublica reports dismissed in June

Frank Bisignano is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, replacing Leland Dudek who was serving as the acting commissioner.

Person:	Frank Bisignano, Leland Dudek
Source:	Senate confirms Bisignano to lead Social Security Administration as agency faces DOGE overhaul The Associated Press, 5/06/25
Agency:	SSA

5/14/25

Due to DOGE imposing a government-wide restriction on expense cards, many of the Social Security offices are in disarray, unable to do common office tasks like buying paper for printers or shredding documents. There are a few shared purchase cards for the agency, but fewer than a dozen staff in SSA are able to authorize office expenses for all 1300 field offices.

Source:	How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring The Washington Post, 5/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Spending

5/16/25

An internal report at Social Security analyzes new fraud detection mechanisms that were mandated by DOGE for all phone claims. According to analysis, only 2 out of 110,000 claims made were possibly but not certainly fraudultent, and adding the system has slowed claims processing by 25% and degraded service overall.

Source:	DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none NextGov, 5/15/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

c.6/05/25

Scott Coulter leaves role as Chief Information Officer at SSA

Appointed:	Scott Coulter 3/24/25-c.6/05/25
Position Title:	Chief Information Officer
Source:	Onboarding documents at SSA for "Employee 2" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	The Fight Between Musk Acolytes and the White House for Control of DOGE The Wall Street Journal, 6/08/25
Note:	Was listed as CIO on May 30, but Aram took over in June. WSJ reports on removal of SSA employee back to NASA in June. Aram/Russo listed as co-CIOs on 6/6

Frank Bisignano is granted permission to remove any DOGE staff at his agency. According to the report, “Bisignano parted ways with one DOGE staffer from SSA, who in June moved to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” The date and person isn’t named, but the CIO replacement at SSA and NASA connection suggest it’s Scott Coulter who was removed in early June.

Person:	Frank Bisignano, Scott Coulter
Source:	The Fight Between Musk Acolytes and the White House for Control of DOGE The Wall Street Journal, 6/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

6/05/25?

Aram Moghaddassi promoted to Chief Information Officer at SSA

Promotion:	Aram Moghaddassi 6/05/25?-9/03/25
Position Title:	Chief Information Officer
Source:	Social Security Administration makes another DOGE switch at CIO FedScoop, 6/28/25

6/06/25

A report in the New York Times suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Mike Russo
Source:	After His Trump Blowup, Musk May Be Out. But DOGE Is Just Getting Started. The New York Times, 6/07/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

The SSA website takes down for maintenance a page that provided service metrics. When it is restored after several weeks, certain metrics that would have shown the impact of DOGE like average phone wait times are no longer provided.

Source:	Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics The Washington Post, 6/20/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the Supreme Court rejected an injunction that prevented DOGE from accessing Social Security data. In a setback for privacy advocates, this will allow for SSA to share data with DOGE and other agencies, while the case about the legality of that proceeds.

Source:	Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records The New York Times, 6/06/25
Agency:	DOGE, SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Immigration

6/09/25

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, the new head of SSA, Frank Bisignano, states that “DOGE personnel, including eight engineers, are integral to getting the job done”

Source:	Social Security Chief Says Musk’s DOGE Figures Heavily in Agency’s Plans The Wall Street Journal, 6/09/25
Agency:	SSA

6/10/25

John Solly asks staff in the Social Security Administration’s CIO office (then possibly under the leadership of Scott Coulter or Aram Moghaddassi) to create a cloud environment to upload the NUMIDENT data to. The stated reason was purported reason for the project was to improve the way that SSA exchanges data.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, John Solly
Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration, Impunity

6/11/25

John Solly modifies his request to instead ask to transfer NUMIDENT data to a test environment. This is not entirely unheard of, but it’s considered a very insecure practice to move production data into a testing environment that might not be authorized for that. DOGE then amends their request again to ask for full admin access to SSA’s cloud environment.

Person:	John Solly
Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

6/12/25

A career official writes up a Risk Acceptance Request Form to share with Aram Moghaddassi and another unnamed career official in the office of the CIO at Social Security about DOGE’s request to have administrative access to a separate Virtual Private Cloud within the Amazon Web Services infrastructure at SSA. The official classifies this as high-risk due a proposal to copy NUMIDENT data to a developer environment with looser access controls and security measures. DOGE developers would also be able to make this data publicly accessible without following the Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements for any new public services and install software not approved for operation in SSA infrastructure.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, John Solly
Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

6/16/25

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for SSA sends an email to Aram Moghaddassi with his assessment that moving NUMIDENT data to the cloud would be at an unacceptably high risk for being hacked or stolen (computed on a 1-5 scale with a 3 for probability of risk and 5 for the impact of this risk)

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi
Source:	Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress Senate Homeland Security and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, 9/25/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

6/23/25

Edward Coristine is reportedly sighted at the Woodlawn, MD location of the Social Security Administration alongside Aram Moghaddassi. It is later confirmed that he is now working as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the agency after he had resigned his position at GSA.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Edward Coristine
Source:	‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration Wired Magazine, 6/26/25
Agency:	SSA

Career staff in the Office of the CIO at Social Security approved DOGE’s request to setup their own separate cloud environment apart from the usual oversight and processes of cloud services at SSA. They deny a request by DOGE to transfer highly-sensitive NUMIDENT data to the cloud.

Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA

c.6/23/25

Edward Coristine starts at SSA.

Appointed:	Edward Coristine c.6/23/25
Source:	‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration Wired Magazine, 6/26/25

Edward Coristine is granted basic access to NUMIDENT at SSA.

System Access:	NUMIDENT: Numerical Identification System
:	read, c.6/23/25 Edward Coristine
Note:	NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

6/25/25

Reportedly acting as a joint CIO at Social Security, Mike Russo overrides the concerns of junior staff in the Office of the CIO at the Social Security Administration and approves a request by John Solly to transfer NUMIDENT data into the new DOGE-controlled cloud environment.

Person:	John Solly, Mike Russo
Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

6/28/25

According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Mike Russo, Scott Coulter
Source:	Social Security Administration makes another DOGE switch at CIO FedScoop, 6/28/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

6/30/25

Due to staffing cuts, there is now an average of 1 SSA worker per 1480 benficiaries, or almost triple the ratio in 1967. This is a direct result of DOGE-driven cuts reducing agency staffing by 7000 since January

Source:	Due to DOGE Cuts, 1 SSA Employee Is Expected to Serve 1,480 Beneficiaries Association of Federal Government Employees, 6/30/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Anti-Personnel

6/XX/25

Leland Dudek leaves role at SSA (exits govt. service)

Demotion:	Leland Dudek 5/06/25-6/XX/25
Source:	Senate confirms Bisignano to lead Social Security Administration as agency faces DOGE overhaul The Associated Press, 5/06/25
Source:	The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security Pro Publica, 9/08/25
Note:	Replaced by Bisignano as confirmed commissioner, ProPublica reports dismissed in June

7/01/25

Antonio Gracias leaves role as Expert at SSA (exits govt. service)

Appointed:	Antonio Gracias 2/23/25-7/01/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Salary:	Volunteer
Source:	Onboarding documentation at OPM for "Employee 4" Document Cloud, 3/07/25

In response to a letter from the American Federation of Teachers union to nine public pension funds who are investors, Valor Equity Partners confirms that Antonio Gracias was working for Valor the entire time he was in DOGE and also reports that he left DOGE on July 1st. It’s unclear what the status of other Valor employees embedded in DOGE, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, are.

Person:	Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval, Payton Rehling
Source:	High-ranking DOGE official and Elon Musk ally, Antonio Gracias, has left government NBC News, 7/24/25
Agency:	SSA

7/02/25

An analysis by a news organization finds that wait times on calls to Social Security routinely exceed 3 hours, with the system also frequently hanging up on people after 2 hours and promising a callback that never arrives. The Social Security website misleadingly reports the average wait time as 18 minutes.

Source:	Social Security call wait times can exceed 3 hours after DOGE cuts KLAS News, 7/02/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Anti-Personnel

7/14/25

The Social Security Administration begins to warn approximately half a million Americans who still receive their benefits by paper check that they will need to call the Treasury Department themselves and request a waiver to still receive paper checks. Those who have not had their waivers processed by the end of September may experience a delay in receiving benefits even if their waiver application is pending. This action is being taken to comply with EO 14247.

Source:	Social Security signals potential benefit disruptions this fall for those still getting paper checks GovExec, 7/14/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud

7/15/25

Acting in his role as the CIO for Social Security Administration, Aram Moghaddassi authorizes a Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) for the project of moving the NUMIDENT data from Social Security’s controlled environment into the special cloud soley operated by DOGE. As the CIO, he is allowed to assume the risk of bypassing mandatory security requirements, but not if it violates federal law or puts sensitive data at risk of being stolen. According to the testimony of several whistleblowers, the cloud project is reportedly being run by Edward Coristine.

Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Source:	Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress Senate Homeland Security and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, 9/25/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

7/XX/25

Tai Groot detailed from NDS to SSA

NDS? Detailed To: SSA Tai Groot 7/XX/25
Position Title:	IT Cybersecurity Expert
Source:	LinkedIn profile for Tai Groot LinkedIn,
Note:	Guessing a detail because of NDS link

Payton Rehling leaves role as Expert at SSA (exits govt. service)

Appointed:	Payton Rehling 2/23/25-7/XX/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the CIO
Salary:	Volunteer
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 9" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	LinkedIn profile for Payton Rehling LinkedIn,

8/11/25

Expressing concerns that the lax security of DOGE’s cloud could lead to the leak of every American’s social security number (and the requirement ro reissue new ones), the Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration contacts Edward Coristine and John Solly to request information about the security of DOGE’s cloud. He is never granted a reply and learns that the SSA Office of General Counsel (headed by DOGE member Mark Steffensen) has advised employees not to respond to his inquiries.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Edward Coristine, John Solly, Mark Steffensen
Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

8/18/25

In a letter to the Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, the Acting Inspector General for the Social Security Administration reports she has no intention of investigating how DOGE added individuals to the Death Master File. She states that DOGE was directed to do this change by Leland Dudek. also reports that the changes were reverted in June 2025 under the order of Frank Bisignano.

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Frank Bisignano, Leland Dudek
Source:	Letter from the SSA OIG to Ron Wyden The Senate Finance Committee, 8/18/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

8/26/25

The Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration, Charles Borges, submits a public whistleblower complaint alleging that DOGE cut corners and skirted mandatory IT oversight in order to copy sensitive NUMIDENT data of the social security numbers of all Americans into a private cloud environment that only they controlled.

Source:	Protected Whistleblower Disclosure of Charles Borges Regarding Violation of Laws, Rules & Regulations, Abuse of Authority, Gross Mismanagement, and Substantial and Specific Threat to Public Health and Safety at the Social Security Administration Government Accountability Project, 8/08/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

8/29/25

Reporting that retaliation and abuse have made it impossible for him to do his job, whistleblower Charles Borges resigns from his position at the Social Security Administration. Retaliation against whistleblowers is a prohibited personnel practice for federal staff, but it can be difficult to prove and enforce.

Source:	Social Security whistleblower who claims DOGE mishandled sensitive data resigns ABC News, 8/29/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

9/03/25

Aram Moghaddassi promoted to Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) at SSA

Promotion:	Aram Moghaddassi 9/03/25-1/XX/26
Position Title:	Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products)
Source:	LinkedIn profile for Aram Moghaddassi LinkedIn,
Source:	Social Security Announces Executive Leadership Team Social Security Administration, 9/03/25
Source:	Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now Wired Magazine, 4/16/26
Note:	Had reportedly been in an informal co-CIO role with Mike Russo since June, now made official

Mike Russo promoted to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions) at SSA

Promotion:	Mike Russo 9/03/25
Position Title:	Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions)
Salary:	$195,200
Source:	Social Security Announces Executive Leadership Team Social Security Administration, 9/03/25

Commissioner Frank Bisignano issues a press release announcing the new leadership structure for the Social Security Administration. This officially confirms the reports that DOGE members Aram Moghaddassi and Mike Russo had effectively been acting as co-CIOs, with Mr. Moghaddassi named to the title of Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) and Mr. Russo to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions)

Person:	Aram Moghaddassi, Frank Bisignano, Mike Russo
Source:	Social Security Announces Executive Leadership Team Social Security Administration, 9/03/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

9/10/25

The Republican Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee sends a letter to the Social Security Administration asking about the whistleblower’s claims that NUMIDENT data was carelessly uploaded to the cloud by DOGE staffer. Coming from the Republican Mike Crapo, this possibly indicates a rare bipartisan concern about DOGE’s activities at the agency.

Source:	Republican Senator Asks Social Security Agency About Whistle-Blower’s Claims The New York Times, 9/10/25
Agency:	SSA

9/16/25

SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano replies to the letter from the Senate Finance Committee about the allegations of the whistleblower. He claims that all proper procedures were followed and that DOGE did not transfer data to a private cloud within the SSA Amazon Web Services accounts.

Person:	Frank Bisignano
Source:	Response from Frank Bisignano to the Senate Finance Committee The Senate Finance Committee, 9/16/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

9/24/25

The New York Times reports on how the DOGE-led staffing cuts and technology changes have led to poor service, low morale and increased wait times for the public. In many field offices, the average wait for an appointment is now six weeks.

Person:	Frank Bisignano
Source:	A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain The New York Times, 9/24/25
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	IT Modernization, Anti-Personnel

9/25/25

The ranking Democratic member of the Senate Comittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs releases a report “Unchecked and Unaccountable” detailing DOGE security transgressions at several agencies, including poor security for the NUMIDENT data at SSA and activities within GSA and OPM

Source:	Unchecked and Unaccountable: How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress Senate Homeland Security and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, 9/25/25
Agency:	DOGE, GSA, OPM, SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

9/30/25

Several nonprofit organizations led by the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit against the DOGE-led project to add Social Security data and expand the usage of the SAVE database for invalidating voter registrations. The suit alleges that this process violated the Privacy Act but also is an unconstitutional abridgement of state ownership for elections.

Source:	Trump Administration Sued Over Massive ‘Interagency Database’ of Americans’ Private Information Democracy Docket, 9/30/25
Agency:	DHS, DOJ, SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration

9/XX/25

John Solly leaves role as Expert at SSA (exits govt. service)

Appointed:	John Solly 3/16/25-9/XX/25
Position Title:	Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Salary:	$162,672
Source:	Onboarding documentation at SSA for "Employee 11" Document Cloud, 4/09/25
Source:	LinkedIn profile for John Solly LinkedIn,
Note:	LinkedIn reports left SSA on 9/2025

10/06/25

The Trump Administration names Frank Bisignano, the current administrator of SSA, as the Chief Executive Officer of the IRS, a position which does not actually exist. Technically, Scott Bessent will remain the seventh acting commissioner to run the IRS this year, but this new role seems to be a way to give Frank Bisignano direct authority over decision-making at the agency while also preserving some amount of deniability and allowing the Trump admininistration to once again sidestep the Senate confirmation process.

Person:	Frank Bisignano
Source:	Trump's new IRS 'CEO': The head of Social Security The Washington Post, 10/06/25
Agency:	IRS, SSA

1/09/26

A whistleblower files a complaint alleging that a member of DOGE who left SSA in October to work for a private contractor had illegally retained their agency laptop and highly-sensitive data. The complaint alleges the unnnamed person had unredacted copies of the NUMIDENT database and the Master Death Files and that they boasted of “God-level” access to SSA data. The DOGE member reportedly wanted assistance to move data from a thumb drive to their personal equipment so they could scrub the data of personal identifiers and use for a company project. When informed by agency personnel that this would be highly illegal, the person allegedly said they would be able to receive a full presidential pardon if they did anything wrong. Although unnamed in the original reporting, he is revealed to be John Solly.

Person:	John Solly
Source:	Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Washington Post, 3/10/26
Source:	John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job Wired Magazine, 3/12/26
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Impunity

1/16/26

In a filing in AFL-CIO v. SSA, the government amended several declarations that had been made in Leland Dudek’s testimony on March 24, 2025. For starters, although DOGE access was revoked on that day, a member of DOGE was running queries against PII in the NUMIDENT database up to the moment. Also, the DOGE team at SSA sent encrypted sensitive SSA data to DOGE and the Department of Labor. A member of the DOGE team also signed an agreement to share information with an outside advocacy group without clearing it through proper legal channels.

Source:	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA, doc 197 Court Document, 1/16/26
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Fraud, Impunity

1/XX/26

Aram Moghaddassi leaves role as Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) at SSA (exits govt. service)

Promotion:	Aram Moghaddassi 9/03/25-1/XX/26
Position Title:	Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products)
Source:	LinkedIn profile for Aram Moghaddassi LinkedIn,
Source:	Social Security Announces Executive Leadership Team Social Security Administration, 9/03/25
Source:	Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now Wired Magazine, 4/16/26
Note:	Had reportedly been in an informal co-CIO role with Mike Russo since June, now made official

4/14/26

In response to “alarming” developments about DOGE’s handling of sensitive data and collaboration with an outsider advocacy group to share voter data, a judge lifted a pause on a case and granted the plaintiffs’ request for discovery. This could force SSA and DOGE to hand over documents, emails and even provide testimony under oath about their activities.

Source:	Court orders probe of DOGE’s secret voter data deal after ‘alarming’ revelations Democracy Docket, 4/16/26
Agency:	SSA
DOGE Project:	Immigration, Impunity