1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to take immediate action in response to the Department of Justice's January 16 court filing revealing that two Department of Government Efficiency employees may have improperly accessed Social Security Administration data for partisan political purposes. This breach threatens both the integrity of our elections and the security of over 300 million Americans' personal information. According to the DOJ filing, two DOGE employees working at the SSA were asked by an unidentified advocacy organization to analyze state voter rolls using SSA data. The advocacy group's stated goal was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states. One DOGE team member even signed a Voter Data Agreement in his capacity as an SSA employee with this advocacy group. The SSA has referred both employees to the US Office of Special Counsel for possible Hatch Act violations, which prohibit federal employees from using their positions for political purposes. This incident is part of a broader pattern of data security failures. Former SSA chief data officer Charles Borges filed a whistleblower complaint in August detailing how DOGE officials created a live copy of the country's Social Security information in a cloud environment that apparently lacks security oversight from SSA. The DOJ filing corroborates Borges' allegations, confirming that DOGE team members shared data on unapproved third-party servers and may have accessed private information that had been ruled off-limits by a court. The consequences of these security lapses could be catastrophic. Unauthorized access could enable identity theft on an unprecedented scale, jeopardize food and healthcare benefits for millions of Americans, and potentially require issuing new Social Security numbers to every American at enormous cost. I urge you to demand a full congressional investigation into DOGE's access to Social Security data, support legislation to revoke DOGE's access to sensitive federal databases, and ensure accountability for those who violated the Hatch Act by using federal resources for partisan election challenges.