DOGE had been working on a strategy to push out immigrants since February. A group of about a dozen civil servants from Social Security were assigned to help Musk’s goons—and agents from the Department of Homeland Security—with the plot. Many career staff were worried that the project was wrong or illegal, a former senior official told the Post.

The Social Security Administration scrapped the Department of Government Efficiency’s plans to stop providing service to recipients over the phone. Last month, DOGE proposed ending some of the Social Security Administration’s over-the-phone claims services to combat identity fraud,

Elon Musk's cost-cutting operation, DOGE, set off a panic in March among elderly and disabled people after proposing that the Social Security Administration scraped many of its claims services over the phone to end alleged identity fraud.