Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and TrumpFor 25 years, he was the ultimate faceless bureaucrat: a midlevel analyst who had bounced between federal agencies, ultimately landing at the Social Security Administration and focusing on information technology, cybersecurity and fraud prevention. He was largely unknown even within the agency. But in February, he suddenly vaulted into the public eye when he was put on leave for surreptitiously sharing information with DOGE. It appeared that he might lose his job, but then he was unexpectedly promoted by the Trump administration to the position of acting commissioner.
This head of Social Security, who’s basically taking it apart, made a weird self-pitying speech to the department. It reminds of stuff you used to see on LiveJournal.