Social Security will not be touched,” Trump answered, echoing a promise he has been making for years. Despite his eagerness to explode treaties, shutter entire government agencies and abandon decades-old ways of doing things,

Associates of Elon Musk have sought unfettered access to government data — for purposes that have no clear ties to their goals to cut spending and regulations.

Rearranging Social Security Administration operations has been a priority of the new acting commissioner, Lee Dudek.

The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner has stepped down from her role at the agency over Department of Government Efficiency requests to access Social Security recipient information,