Hajra Naz
Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have accessed and potentially shared Americans’ Social Security numbers while assisting a political advocacy group seeking to overturn election results in several states, according to newly filed court documents.
The disclosure, first reported by Politico, emerged in a set of corrections to earlier testimony from senior Social Security Administration (SSA) officials. Those corrections were submitted as part of ongoing legal disputes over DOGE’s access to sensitive SSA data.
Neither the DOGE employees nor the advocacy group involved are identified in the filings.
Advocacy Group Sought Voter Roll Analysis
According to the court documents, in March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two DOGE team members working inside the SSA. The group asked them to analyze the state voter rolls it had obtained.
Elizabeth Shapiro, a Justice Department official, wrote that the group’s stated goal was to uncover alleged voter fraud and use that information to challenge election outcomes in certain states.
Following those communications, one DOGE member—acting in their capacity as an SSA employee—signed and sent a “Voter Data Agreement” to the advocacy group, Shapiro said.
Potential Access to Restricted Data
The filings suggest the DOGE members may have accessed SSA data that a federal court had already ruled was off-limits at the time. There are also indications that data may have been shared or stored on unapproved third-party servers.
“At this time, there is no evidence that SSA employees outside of the involved members of the DOGE Team were aware of the communications with the advocacy group,” Shapiro wrote. She added that other SSA staff were also unaware of the voter data agreement.
It remains unclear whether Social Security data was ultimately shared. However, emails reviewed by investigators suggest that DOGE team members may have been asked to assist the advocacy group by matching SSA records to voter rolls.
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Possible Hatch Act Violations
Shapiro said the SSA has referred the two DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal workers from using their official positions to engage in political activity.
Prior Court Orders and Whistleblower Claims
The revelations come amid heightened scrutiny of DOGE’s access to federal data. Last year, a federal judge ordered DOGE members blocked from accessing SSA systems that contained highly sensitive information, including Social Security numbers, medical records, driver’s license data, and tax information.
After that ruling, an SSA whistleblower alleged that DOGE had uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to an unsecured cloud server, further intensifying concerns over data handling and oversight.
