Has got to enrage you, cause it did me.
ONCE AGAIN…
IT WAS NEVER EVER EVER ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims
A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country.
June 5, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
By Meryl Kornfield
The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts, according to a former senior Social Security executive.
The previously unreported plan, which the Social Security Administration said was not carried out, would have used one of the government’s most consequential identity databases to effectively erase people from the financial system, potentially cutting them off from wages, banking, government benefits and other services.
Jeremiah Schofield, who worked at Social Security for 25 years and helped lead the agency’s IT modernization efforts before leaving in October, said he refused to help implement the plan after agency lawyers warned that falsely marking living people as dead could violate federal law. Schofield said he realized the plan’s possible intent — to intimidate and worsen the finances of immigrants — as well as its potential unlawfulness after taking a sample of people from the 2.7 million and discovering they were all alive. Some were U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, teenagers and senior citizens, including one widow who was a legal permanent resident receiving survivor benefits.
Schofield has provided details on the plan in a 49-page whistleblower disclosure to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is on the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The disclosure was reviewed by The Washington Post, and it offers the most detailed account yet of how officials from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service sought to use Social Security data in service of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
In an interview with The Post, Schofield said he is speaking publicly for the first time because he believes Americans need to understand how government data can be misused and, in some cases, already has been.
Social Security carried out a smaller version of such an effort last year, The Post previously reported, moving 6,100 immigrants into its “Death Master File” — a database used by banks, employers and government agencies to determine whether someone is alive. Some of those people later showed up at Social Security field offices to prove they were alive and were restored in agency records.
In a written statement, a Social Security spokesperson who did not provide their name said the agency “did not add a list of 2.7 million names to the Death Master File. SSA maintains the highest level of internal controls. This includes having all appropriate policies and procedures in place to maintain the integrity and accuracy of agency records.”
Schofield’s whistleblower complaint describes a tumultuous period inside Social Security, as career officials questioned the legality of such efforts and watched DOGE officials gain access to some of the government’s most sensitive databases. In one meeting, Schofield said, a DOGE official working with the Department of Homeland Security described the goal of declaring 2.7 million living people dead: making immigrants so miserable that they self-deported or went to Social Security offices for help, where they could be arrested.
Just reading this…..this is pure evil.
He’s talking about Speaker Preacher.
David Simon
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There are many in the fallen world of American politics who are more mendacious, more corrupt, more self-aggrandizing. But no one — and I mean no one — is as empty, soulless and craven as this man.
Democratic Activists
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Trump has destroyed federal guardrails meant to ensure secure and fair elections. Some fear his actions are aimed at making sure the upcoming midterms go his way.
Read our full investigation: propub.li/4dNODWQ
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Rep. Jim McGovern
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If the GOP wants to talk about fraud, let’s do it. Trump is responsible for:
✅Defrauding students
✅Crypto scams
✅Corrupt foreign deals
✅Self-dealing gov contracts
✅Shady real estate transactions
✅Pump & dump stock schemes
✅Pardons for allies
Care to comment,
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Richard Blumenthal
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Cruelty is the point. Thanks to this brave whistleblower’s disclosure, we have more evidence that the Trump Admin used DOGE not just to recklessly slash government programs—they were looking for ways to purposefully hurt people, especially immigrants.
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Elizabeth Spiers
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One stat that should be a headline one for Dems is that deportations and arrests are job-killers. We talked about a study on today’s Slate Money that found that for every arrest, 6 Americans lose jobs and 4 undocumented immigrants do. http://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...
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Andy Craig
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Mike Lee is not just rage-tweeting about the DoD’s new religion codes, he’s now in a full meltdown manically replying to people demanding they read the Book of Mormon because he can’t shrug off how his far-right brainworms X feed was full of people saying “lol Mormons aren’t Christians, suck it.”
7:26 PM · Jun 7, 2026
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It was three days before the filing deadline when Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan learned of an eleventh-hour Republican challenger in his high-stakes reelection race.
The challenger’s name: Dan J. Sullivan.
Sen. Sullivan says it’s not a joke.
The two-term Republican incumbent, and the GOP’s Senate campaign arm, are raising major alarms about his same-name rival, warning that it could cost them a seat by confusing the electorate and give a leg-up to his well-funded Democratic challenger, former Rep. Mary Peltola.
In an interview with CNN, the senator accused Democratic leaders of planting Dan J. Sullivan in the race with the precise hope of undercutting his campaign – an allegation top Democrats in Washington and Anchorage firmly deny.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/07/politics/dan-sullivan-alaska-senate-ballot
Aaron Rupar
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Jeffries turns table on Jacqui Heinrich during a Fox News interview: “It’s very interesting that you’ve asked me about candidates, many of whom haven’t even confronted a Democratic primary yet, but haven’t asked me a single question about the hatred, xenophobia, the outright racism we see being peddled by actual members of Congress in the Republican conference.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2063640452369170541?s=20
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