The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner said members of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team are outsiders who are unfamiliar with the nuances of the agency’s programs.

The acting head of the Social Security Administration told a meeting of senior staff and legal-aid lawyers that Elon Musk’s federal cost-cutting task force “will make mistakes” as it pushes the agency to cut thousands of jobs and dramatically slash spending.

Social Security is as big as government programs get. Naturally, even a glance at it with DOGE’s magnifying glass found plenty that seemed — charitably — not

New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.

An internal email sent to Social Security employees on Thursday morning prohibited them from accessing online news sites, hindering the agency's work.

The Social Security Administration announced a Severance-style censorship policy Thursday that prohibits employees from reading the news on their work devices. The SSA—with a workforce of about 57,000 employees—sent a morning email to all staff to prescribe “additional restrictions to the categories of websites prohibited from government-furnished equipment.