I’ve been wondering about how many federal workers might be MAGA cultists who are helping the DOGE crew come in and destroy the government. It stands to reason there would be some. It turns out that it’s a good career move.
Here’s one in the Social Security administration who was willing to break the law for DOGE and got a big reward for it:
Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner, according to three current or former government officials with knowledge of the events.
The agency’s leadership team became aware in recent weeks that Leland Dudek, a data analyst working in a small anti-fraud office who had been unknown to many of them,was sharing unauthorized access to information with representatives of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service, according to the three, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an internal matter.
It’s not clear what data Dudek shared, but his actions raised enough alarm that he may have violated privacy and tax laws that senior officials placed him on paid leave as they launched their investigation. The officials, including attorneys in the general counsel’s office, also were notified late last week that Dudek had sent harassing emails to employees in the agency’s personnel and security divisions to rush them to let several engineers hired by DOGE start work and gain access to agency computer systems. The officials pushed back, saying that they had not completed background investigations into the new hires.
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Representatives for DOGE — which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, though it is not a Cabinet-level agency — toured the headquarters building this month and were eager to gain access to a key database in their search for benefits fraud. When the team learned last week that Dudek would be investigated, the chief information officer called acting commissioner Michelle King to demand answers. Then, on the Sunday of Presidents’ Day weekend, King received an email announcing that Trump had appointed Dudek to replace her. After being effectively forced out, King abruptly retired after three decades of service, the three individuals said. Her acting chief of staff, Tiffany Flick, also retired.
They just fire anyone who even slightly crosses them and elevate anyone who helps them to positions of authority. That asshole is now in charge of our social security information.
This is much like the General who Trump just hired out of retirement as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs because he has a nickname, wore a MAGA hat and told Trump that he could beat ISIS in a week if he were only allowed to used enough force. He supposedly said, “I love you, I would kill for you.”
A real life Buck Turgidson.
God help us.