“The number is 40 percent,” Katie Miller reportedly told the acting SSA Administrator Leland Dudek in an April 1 call, the Times reported.
While Miller left the government in late May alongside Musk, the new head of the SSA refuted that figure directly in a statement to the Times.
“We’re going to be a fact-based, rule-based organization that can count,” said Frank Bisignano, who joined the agency as commissioner in early May.
A staffing shortfall at the agency is now compounded by a growing backlog of Social Security claims.
But privately, according to the Times, he has expressed “deep misgivings about the effect of DOGE’s oversight,” to his confidantes.
open image in gallery Elon Musk departed the administration at the end of May, and promptly began a feud with the president ( AP ).
“I have no intent to RIF people,” he said during a 90-minute address to agency managers last month, according to the Federal News Network. »
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