Jon Koval

Jon Koval starts as Expert at SSA.

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.

A whistleblower at SSA, Jeremiah Schofield, is summoned to the first of 4 subsequent meetings with DOGE staff. These meetings are not scheduled in SSA systems to avoid any records. They also took place in an unused portion of the building. Both a SSA security guard and private security were on hand to prevent access by other staff. He met with Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval and Peyton Rehling, all of whom appeared to have access to sensitive systems and were using nonstandard and possibly personal laptops. All three identified themselves as volunteers and said their purpose at the agency was to identify fraud and people who should not have social security numbers.

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)”

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

Jon Koval is granted basic access to 3 systems at SSA.

Tech staffers and contractors noticed a new DOGE staffer, Sahil Lavingia, was pushing code to a repo in the VA’s Github instance. He also appeared to be using an AI tool to write code. This later turns out to be code that is reviewing contracts to be terminated.

A DOGE team at SSA consisting of Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling continues to meet with SSA staff to discuss fraud. They become focused on records in the NUMIDENT system that have no death date. Despite explanations from SSA Staff that the missing death dates do not indicate fraud, the DOGE team insists that the death dates be corrected. This continues to be a top priority for the White House and Elon Musk.

Jon Koval detailed from SSA to DOJ

Jon Koval is granted basic access to ECAS at DOJ.

DHS sends SSA an list of 2.7 million individuals that they want to be declared in NUMIDENT, who would then be dead in the Death Master File. The SSA team is startled by this action, since they had already determined the action to be illegal when it was 6300 individuals. SSA staff reviewed a random sample of 25 individuals from the set and are shocked to see that only 2 of the 25 were not US citizens or lawful permanent residents. The team at SSA refuses to comply with this request. In the face of this resistance, SSA leadership instead suggests placing a flag on their accounts that would force them to report to field offices to get it fixed. This initiative is apparently being led by Jon Koval, who is now at DHS.

In a meeting with SSA staff, Jon Koval confirms that the goal of declaring 2.7 million individuals was to both force individuals to “self-deport” because their financial lives would be ruined and to also arrest and deport individuals when they arrived at SSA offices to fix their records.

The acting counsel of the IRS, Andrew deMello, sends an email to DHS staff declining their request for data sharing. He cites that the request made from DHS lacked information mandated by the Memorandum of Understandng (MOU) between the two agencies, including why the disclosure is needed for a criminal case and the identities of ICE officers making the requests along with a sworn attestation that the info will only be used for judicial proceedings and not enforcement. DOGE staffers Anthony Armstrong and Jon Koval are included in this communication.

Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.

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.