The Social Security Administration — the sprawling federal agency that delivers retirement, disability and survivor benefits to 74 million Americans — began the second Trump administration with a hostile takeover. Social Security officials declined to make Bisignano available for an interview, though he did respond to written questions. He has a provisional driver’s license from Maryland and needs to clear up his name with Social Security by mid-January, he said. That former analyst, Leland Dudek, insists that he saved Social Security from a worse fate under Musk’s cost-cutting team. He’d also had to switch banks and, as a result, hadn’t received Social Security checks for the last two or three months.

Source: Washington Post December 30, 2025 11:31 UTC