Krishnamoorthi critical of SC order on DOGE’s access to social security data

The data it seeks includes Social Security numbers, medical records, and tax and banking information.

Krishnamoorthi reacted sharply to the top court's order / Instagram/ Raja Krishnamoorth

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi called out the US Supreme Court’s decision to allow members of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access Social Security Administration data.

The US Supreme Court has permitted DOGE , a key player in President Donald Trump’s drive to slash the federal workforce, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems.

Krishnamoorthi hit hard at the top court and said, “with this ruling, the Supreme Court has once again chosen Donald Trump’s agenda over the privacy of the American people.”

He added, “The Court just handed Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE team a skeleton key to the personal data of more than 70 million Americans—Social Security numbers, medical records, wage histories—all without proper safeguards, oversight, or justification. This isn’t modernization. It’s potentially mass surveillance masquerading as reform.”

At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold Maryland-based US District Judge Ellen Hollander's order that had largely blocked DOGE's access to "personally identifiable information" in data such as medical and financial records while litigation proceeds in a lower court. Hollander found that allowing DOGE unfettered access likely would violate a federal privacy law.

Talking about the overturning of the lower court’s earlier order, Krishnamoorthi remarked, “despite clear warnings from lower courts, the majority opened the door to an unaccountable and unelected task force rifling through our most sensitive information. If the Supreme Court won’t defend Americans’ privacy, then Congress must.”

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