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‘Financial murder’: Dems slam Trump admin for making false statements about Social Security todayheadline

May 8, 2025
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Just a day after Senate Republicans confirmed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration commissioner, Frank Bisignano, the chamber’s Democrats on Wednesday announced a series of letters about outstanding questions and concerns regarding the federal agency—including one that demands an investigation into what they call attempted “financial murder.”

Two of the letters unveiled Wednesday were dated April 30. Both were led by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and signed by a dozen members of the Democratic Caucus: one was to Leland Dudek, then acting commissioner of the SSA, and another was to Michelle Anderson, assistant inspector general for audit at the agency.

The latter asks the SSA Office of the Inspector General to probe reports that the administration “is taking steps to place certain categories of immigrants who have lawfully obtained Social Security numbers (SSNs) in its Death Master File (DMF),” which contains data on more than 141 million people whose deaths were reported to the agency, in an effort to make them “self-deport.”

The letter to Dudek declares that “this inhumane, illegal, and unconstitutional action will inflict—and already has inflicted—irreparable harm on these individuals, undermines trust in and accuracy of the Social Security programs, and sets a dangerous precedent in allowing the government to take away Americans’ access to their earned Social Security benefits.”

“If living number-holders are improperly transferred to the DMF, they lose their ability to legally work in the United States, as well as access to any earned Social Security benefits, healthcare, banking and credit cards, and access to virtually every other exchange with a third-party that is verified by a valid SSN,” the letter explains. “The result is, as former SSA Commissioner Martin O’Malley put it, ‘tantamount to financial murder.'”

“Changing the name of the database to the ‘Ineligible Master File’ as a clumsy attempt to evade public criticism or legal exposure does not mitigate these consequences to these individuals, as has already been reported,” the letter asserts, urging Dudek “to immediately cease this practice and remove all individuals placed on the DMF through this initiative.”

In addition to Wyden, the letters were signed by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Angus King (I-Maine), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.).

Warren and Wyden also partnered with the chamber’s New York Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, for a Wednesday letter to Bisignano, who was confirmed Tuesday with a 53-47 vote along party lines.

“Since President Trump took office, we have—prompted by the administration’s attacks on Social Security—sent 17 letters to the Social Security Administration,” they wrote. “These letters have sought answers for why the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appear to be dismantling the SSA, potentially depriving Americans of their hard-earned benefits.”

As the letter details:

We have not received responses to the vast majority of our questions. In fact, acting Commissioner Leland Dudek has reportedly instructed staff to not respond to public or congressional inquiries. The limited answers we have received have been unsatisfactory,” they continued. We have also requested information from you directly. Through direct inquires, your hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, and post-hearing questions for the record, we have sought to determine whether you intend to continue DOGE’s disastrous efforts to hollow out the SSA. In response, you repeatedly claimed that, because you were not yet working at SSA, you did not have sufficient information to answer. You made these claims despite the fact that a former SSA employee whistleblower has reported that you have been participating extensively in high-level operational, management, and personnel decisions at SSA.

Now that Bisignano has been confirmed, the senators are demanding answers to their nearly 200 questions.

“We are extraordinarily concerned about the future of the SSA under the Trump administration, and Americans deserve information about the fate of their benefits under your watch,” the senators wrote. “We therefore ask that you provide full and complete answers to all of our questions no later than May 21, 2025.”

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