Social Security officials pull plug on 'ineffective' DOGE program that sparked mass chaos

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

May 17, 2025 2:13PM ET


A key Social Security program mandated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was ordered shut down on Friday for not only being "inefficient" but also creating chaos for those applying for their benefits and those who process claims.

According to a report from the Washington Post, officials from Elon Musk's creation designed to root out waste had demanded "a security check, developed at DOGE’s request, that was meant to root out allegedly fraudulent claims filed over the phone," which, in turn, was a bust.

According to two employees, "the measure — which involved placing a three-day hold on all phone claims as other staffers checked into the caller’s background — had only identified a couple of potential fraud cases while causing significant delays in claims processing." The report notes that was not the only problem that needed correcting.

"Many of the major changes DOGE pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction," the Post reported with one former official admitting she is not surprised. Kathleen Romig had already pointed out that there were safeguards in place before DOGE's meddling and explained, "So much of this is self-inflicted wounds."

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[LiberalArkie]

1. I think as Trumps appointees start working in the departments they are going to find out that the

people there are just trying to help Americans and it is nothing like their preconceived ideas.

[Walleye]

2. They may be shocked to find this out, but most Americans are honest and ethical and try to do the right thing

As opposed to South African billionaires. Elon, don’t project your shabby morals on us.

[LiberalArkie]

3. I think that has been Musks and Patels and others problem. They have been raised in other systems

or their parents have been and just have no concept of America. We generally do not operate in a system where you bribe officials to get something done like in a lot of the countries.

[Walleye]

4. Like the Russians, they cheat at sports so much. They can't even compete in international games anymore.

And Trump cheats at golf, dumb. The game of golf is to test yourself against your own score. Cheating is completely out of step.

[Nasruddin]

5. You're right and wrong

We have PLENTY of corruption here in the good ole USA.
A lot of it's white collar crime, and those rascals are probably well aware of how that works.

[LiberalArkie]

6. And we have always had crime and crap like the mob, but it isn't to the level that if you need a license

then you pay for that and then also pay some money to the clerk writing processing it.

[IronLionZion]

9. Trump was raised in our system and he loves bribes like a free luxury jet

[LiberalArkie]

11. Trump was raised in very private schools in all grades. Never had to mix with anyone not in his class and

raised at home by very racist and bigoted family of wealth and possibly in a mafia like environment.

Nothing at all like an average American family setting.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

14. Having lived abroad for the last year ...

I have seen government corruption and efforts to root it out, some more effective than others. I agree that the US, while not incorruptible, does not have a normalized culture of corruption where it is just expected that a little bribe to officials and police is the norm and the more effective way of getting things done.

Growing up in the US I do not remember ever giving an actual bribe to any US governmental official. And as a former state and federal employee for many years I do not remember ever taking a bribe either.

Things are different in some other parts of the world and Patel and Musk may well have different subconscious expectations.

I applaud your perspicacity.

[LiberalArkie]

15. And even rich kid Trump with his dad paying teachers to give him good grades and himself bullying

other students to get what he wants, we seem to now have an administration that resembles the Asian high school bully tv shows. Every last one of them acts like the leader of a gang of high school bullies. Like they never grew up and accepted responsibility for their actions.

I just feel like it is time to treat them like you treat bullies. You don't sit them down with the counselor, you beat the shit out of them. Should have fired Garland and found another one who would have arrested Trump for the documents case and tried him and put him in jail even on Election Day.

"But the optics" of doing that..

[Marcuse]

7. It's in their DNA that everybody lies, cheats and steals. It's how they live with themselves.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. DOGE AI generated solutions are DOA & FOS.

The impertinent fools cannot conceive of a set of tools which can operate as efficiently as a trained and experienced person.
The central problem here is that DOGE dogma states that anyone who has experience in the system is corrupt and therefore unable or willing to do the job as DOGE expects it to be done. Since DOGE is smarter than anyone else only they can solve the problems which they insist are inherently corrupting the system

Can you imagine a more obnoxious and self-serving bunch of fools?
Imagine that!

[IronLionZion]

10. DOGE agenda was always to undermine and destroy services

nothing to do with any fraud, waste, or abuse.

[Historic NY]

12. Another T R U M P F A I L U R E

[Miles Archer]

13. Musk had an agenda that had nothing to do with "fraud" or "savings."

He:

1). Got the data he wanted. It's got to be worth a king's ransom, and he knows it.

2). He screwed with agencies that had regulatory authority over his businesses. Look, Ma! No more investigations!

3). He stacked the deck in favor of his companies getting more government contracts while screwing over his competitors.

That was his real agenda. And, he checked off everything on his list.