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Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data (www.nbcnews.com)

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The Supreme Court on Friday allowed members of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security Administration data.

The conservative-majority court, with its three liberal justices objecting, granted an emergency application filed by the Trump administration asking the justices to lift an injunction issued by a federal judge in Maryland.

The unsigned order said that members of the DOGE team assigned to the Social Security Administration should have "access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work."

The lawsuit challenging DOGE’s actions was filed by progressive group Democracy Forward on behalf of two unions — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the American Federation of Teachers — as well as the Alliance for Retired Americans.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No hell it isn't. What we have here is two extremely powerful narcissists, very predictably, and predicted, having a feud.

GOP Congressmen are shitting bricks thinking this will distract from passing their Big Beautiful Bill™. This whole thing is poison to the right-wing.

"The fascists are doing $evil_shit! This is nothing but a distraction!"

Is it Friday already?

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Reminder: The Big Beautiful Bill makes it illegal to legislate restrictions for AI and more importantly it bans transgender healthcare

[–] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

They are transactional narcissists who think the rest of the population is full of marks. Even if it's not an act, it will act as a loyalty test, a distraction, and an attempt for Musk to whitewash, and the clash will likely not last long. Both Trump and Musk are in full alignment about what DOGE is doing, and DOGE's people are basically Musk appointees. Whether the feud is real doesn't even matter.