Recording suggests that Dogi, Trump – SSA Head Dudek’s views on the publicica

According to the Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Leyland Dudek, since the arrival of a team from the Government Efficiency Department of Elon Musk, social security is more uncertain. According to the recording obtained by Propublica, “I don’t want to collapse the system,” Dudch said at a closed door meeting last week. He also said that it was “frightening for people in our country” if Dogge was to make changes in his agency which were widespread as USAID, Treasury Department and other places.

Dudech’s comments were given to a group of senior employees and social security advocates, who offer an extraordinary window in the thinking of an top agency official in the early days of the second Trump administration, to participate in both individually and virtually. The Washington Post first reported the acceptance of Dudech that Dogi is calling shots in social security and quoted many of his statements. But complete recording suggests that he moved forward, not only citing the work being done in the agency, which he repeatedly called “The Dog Kids”, but also the broad input that he got from the White House. When a participant asked him at the meeting that he would not release more force about comprehensive social security fraud as President Donald Trump’s “BS”, Dudech replied, “So we published, for a record, what was really the number on our website. It is working-has you ever worked with someone who has worked with a man who is a man

During the meeting, Dudech made dangerous statements about the dangers facing the social security system, but he did it in a strangely informal, discretionary manner. It surprised many participants as the final fortune of the country’s largest and most popular social program, one that serves 73 million Americans. “Are we going to break something?” Dudek asked at one point, referring to what Dogi is doing with social security data. “I don’t know.”

But then he said, in more confident voice: “They are learning. Let people learn. They are going to make mistakes. ,

Dudek is a symbol of dramatic whipping of life as a public servant under Dodge. For 25 years, he was the final faceless bureaucrat: a Middlewell analyst who had bounced among the federal agencies, eventually focusing on social security administration and information technology, cyber security and prevention of fraud. He was also largely unknown within the agency. But in February, he suddenly drowned in public eyes when he was on leave to share information with Dogge. It seems that he may lose his job, but then he was unexpectedly promoted to the post of Acting Commissioner by the Trump administration. At that time, he seemed unreserved to the Dogi agenda, writing – re -deleting – a Belikose LinkedIn post in which he expressed pride in sharing the officials of Bulld Agency, sharing the executive contact information, and shifted to the series of command to connect Dogo with those who receive goods. “

Now, in his tenure, only the week, he was taking a more ambitious currency not only Dogi but towards Trump. On several occasions during the last week’s meeting, according to the recording, Dudech implicated the options that he has been making as “President’s agenda” in recent weeks. These options include at least 7,000 social security deductions of social security staff; The entire employee of 57,000 was offered to buy and initial retirement, including those who work in field office and telescare service centers, helping elderly and disabled people to navigate the program; Cut in disability assessment services; The disintegration of a team which was working to improve the user experience of ssa.gov website and application process; Reduction in agency footprints across the country from 10 regional offices to four; The expiration of 64 leases, including some area for office and hearing office space; Proposal to outsource social security customer service; More.

“I work for the President. I need to do what the President tells me to do, ”Dudech said according to the recording. He said, “I have to make some difficult choices, the options I did not agree with, but the President wanted it and I did it.” (He did not name those specific works that Trump did or did not.)

Still at another point, Dudech said “I do not want to fire anyone” but that “a lot of structural changes that you have seen at the headquarters, I have long conversations with the White House, and Dogi Team. … And it is not to say that I have no more difficult choices to come. The President has a agenda. I am a political appointment. I am a political appointment.

Dudek also rejected claims about Trump’s social security fraud once more than once, which the President extended a few hours after the meeting of Dudech in a speech for the Congress, stating that millions of people above the age of 100 are getting social security benefits. Dudek said that 110-year-old and older people are actually one of the social security databases, who are watching the DOGE team, but they are “not in salary”-they are not actually paying profit. “These are records that we never bother with,” he explained.

Nevertheless, Dudek and his two depots, who talked to the meeting, talked to the misunderstanding of Trump. A spokesperson said he was proud of a recent press release, in which he had opposed some false claims. The second official said that the story about the dead people of Dogge got the legend “in front of us”, but “this is a victory that you are not seeing more (wrong information), because they are becoming educated.”

Dudech and Social Security Administration spokesperson, White House and Elon Musk did not respond to the remarks requests.

Dudech’s comment comes at a time when many social security workers are feeling confused about Dudech, his role vs. Dogi and what it means to the future of Social Security Administration, according to Publis’s conversation with more than two dozen agency employees. Many people said that because the recent cuts in the agency have been done in a piece -tin fashion, the public does not seem to reduce its totality in this program, which is its 90th anniversary this year.

Sorting-and potentially a looming speaker of thousands of more employees has also paid less attention to the complex casswork of elderly people with income and physical and intellectual disabilities to make a purchase by Friday time limit, as propubika has reported.

Meanwhile, Dogi, which has been portrayed by Dogi, as a squad of technical-evil talent, has actually reduced the efficiency of delivery of social security services in many ways, many employees said. Under Dogi, several social security IT contracts have been canceled or scaled back. Now, five employees told Propublica, their technical systems are crashing almost every day, which delayed serving the beneficiaries. It was already a problem, he said, but it has become “very bad” and “ideal,” two employees said.

And under a policy, which Dogy has applied to several agencies, the front-line social security staff is banned from using their government procurement card for any amount above $ 1. This has become a significant problem in some field offices, especially when workers need to obtain or create copies of significant records or original documents-birth certificate and thus that are necessary to process some social security claims, a management-level employee said.

“The results of the elections are,” Dudech wrote on 1 March in an email to the agency employees.

At the meeting last week, according to the recording, Dudech was asked about many of these organizational changes. With the closure and consolidation of regional offices, about the cut in the part of the agency that helps evaluate the disability claims that has already retreated seriously, he said: “This was certainly done at the level of administration. This is not my first priority. I think we need to see what we need to see in terms of fallouts.”

“Again,” he said, “I work for the President. Dogi is part of that.”

According to a copy of the agenda, the dudech, which was determined to speak only for 15 minutes, talked for about an hour instead, talking about everything from her upbringing by a disabled mother, which depended on social security, refers to Trump under the 1989 book “Bureaucracy”. He continued to vaccinate the concerns of the advocates for weak social security recipients and what Dogi has tried to do in his agency.

He said, “I really liked to live around children,” he said that although he was unfamiliar with the “nuances” of social security, he was trying to get them more thoughtful. “They are thinking differently about work.”

He confirmed that the members of the DOGE team had a comprehensive access to the social security numbers and other personal data of the Americans, but claimed that if they do anything illegal with that information, they examined them and probably prosecuted. He said that he wanted to bulk resources for field offices and customer service, even the front-line workers received proposals to purchase the same as other employees.

Overall, Dudek insisted that he wanted creative response and open conversation, as he cares deeply about social security administration and its working people. He was honest about his shortcomings: “I am in a role in which I did not expect,” he said. “I am a man and a fraud man.”

Dudech will eventually be replaced by Trump’s long -term pick Frank Bisigno to run social security administration. Many times, Dudek looked fatal.

“I am a villain,” he said in recording. “I am not going to do a job after this. I understood.”