The Social Security data chief who filed a ‘whistleblower’ complaint against DOGE has resigned.
DOGE workers have been granted access to sensitive Social Security data as an effort to clean up the agency and the bureaucrats are pushing back.
Social Security Data Chief Charles Borges resigned on Friday and said he is leaving his post “involuntarily” because of what he describes as a hostile work environment and retaliation since his complaint went public.
“Borges’ complaint accused SSA Chief Information Officer Aram Moghaddassi, a longtime ally of Elon Musk, of violating agency policies to “create a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight,” in violation of multiple federal statutes,” NBC News reported.
“Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital healthcare and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for re-issuing every American new Social Security Number at great cost,” Borges’ complaint said.
A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration told NBC News that the sensitive data referred to in the whistleblower complaint was “walled off from the internet”
Borges claimed he has “suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable.”
“It is never wrong to be morally and ethically right with yourself,” Borges said in a LinkedIn post on Friday.
Politico reported:
The Social Security Administration’s chief data officer has resigned days after filing a whistleblower complaint warning that President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency put the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans at risk.
Charles Borges said in his resignation letter Friday that he was leaving his position “involuntarily,” doing so in part because of concerns that the agency’s data is being handled improperly and his efforts to correct the problems were rebuffed.
“Due to my concerns regarding SSA’s questionable and potentially unlawful data management practices, and the inability to exercise my statutory duties as CDO, I believe my position is untenable and that this constitutes an intolerable working environment for a Chief Executive tasked with specific responsibilities and accountability,” Borges wrote in his letter, addressed to Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano.
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