The acting head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) Stop her job during the weekend after breaking down heads with the Elon Musk-guided Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), about efforts to gain access to certain sensitive government registers, according to reports.
The Washington Post reported that three people who are familiar with the departure of Michelle King on Monday said she would resign from her position after the disagreement.
In response to the departure of King, President Donald Trump reportedly appointed Leland Dudek to lead the agency as a candidate of the president to serve as commissioner of the SSA, Frank Bisignano, is screened by federal legislators.
The main secretary of the deputy in the White House, Harrison Fields, said they expect that Bisignano “will be confirmed quickly in the coming weeks.”
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The logo of the US Social Security Administration can be seen outside of a social security building, November 5, 2020, in Burbank, California. (Photo by Valerie Macon / AFP) (Photo by Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty images) (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty images)
“In the meantime, the agency will be led by an anti-fraud dere expert in the career as the acting commissioner,” Fields said without appointing the replacement. “President Trump strives to appoint the best and most qualified people who are committed to working on behalf of the American people, not to appease the bureaucracy that has failed them for far too long.”
The three people who spoke with the Washington Post about the condition of anonymity, reportedly said the publication that Dudek made positive comments about Doge’s efforts to find fraud and Lower the costs over Federal agencies.
The SSA did not respond to FOX News Digital’s request for comment on this.
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Elon Musk speaks during an event in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump in the White House, Tuesday 11 February 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP images)
Musk leads Doge to aggressively reduce government waste when it comes to federal expenditure under President Trump. The Department was founded through executive order and is a temporary organization in the White House that will spend 18 months performing its mission.
One of the most recent goals of the department is the SSA, which was founded in 1935 by the Social Security Act under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and charged with setting up a federal benefit system for older Americans.
While Doge continues to find fraud and wasting editions at SSA, Musk turned on Monday to X to say that millions of people in a social security database are recorded as a centenary of the death of the death of False! “
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“According to the social security database, these are the number of people in every age bucket with the field of death that is set to Vals! Maybe dusk is real and there are many vampires that collect social security,” Musk postedAdding a few rolls on the floor smiling emojis.
His post contains a graph that indicates -159 range.
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Although the American population in the 2020 census was more than 331 million, the count of people aged 100 and older was more than 80,000, according to data from the US Census Bureau.
Alex Nitzberg from Fox News Digital has contributed to this report.
