A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.

Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.

The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”

Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    America has already constructed such an effective social murder state that you can pretty readily enact a final solution simply by cutting people off from financial supports.

    The status quo is the system unpersons and kills you by neglect if you can’t make rent. This development is an escalation for sure, but it’s just the mask slipping, the senseless cruelty has been there all along.

    Be outraged at this, but also please get involved helping people who are uhoused where you live, with money, food, supplies, whatever you can.