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America First Audit

He said it in public. These are the documents on what happened next. Browse all records.

Why these cases

Trump sold “America First.” This record traces how public money, power, and risk moved toward family businesses, donors, favored firms, and foreign governments: and what workers, ranchers, retirees, patients, veterans, and small investors were left to absorb.

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DOGE Access to Social Security Personal Data

Actions
documentedA district-court record found that SSA gave eleven DOGE affiliates access to agency records containing highly sensitive personal information while the preliminary-injunction dispute remained pending.U.S. District Court for the District of MarylandRead record · 1 source
Outcomes
documentedThe en banc Fourth Circuit said SSA's corrected record admitted inaccurate prior submissions, access beyond disclosed limits, use of an unauthorized third-party server and repeated violations involving SSA records.U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth CircuitRead record · 1 source
People and impacts
Who paid or was affected
reportedSSA records include health, income, banking, family and biographic information concerning hundreds of millions of people, according to reporting on the inspector-general probe.Open cited record
  • People whose records are held by SSA
Promise and assessment
The promise
documentedTrump ordered DOGE to modernize federal technology and maximize efficiency and productivity.The White HouseRead record · 1 source

Promise partly kept

System access under the modernization order is documented, and so are the protocol violations and data mishandling later admitted. The continuing litigation and inspector-general probe have not established public dissemination or the full extent of the harm.

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