A former executive of the United States Social Security Administration has denounced that the Trump Administration proposed marking 2.7 million living people as deceased in federal records, as part of a strategy of migratory pressure that would have involved the Department of Homeland Security and the DOGE team, the government efficiency agency linked to Elon Musk.
The complaint, first reported by The Washington Post, comes from Jeremiah Schofield, a former senior official at the Social Security Administration, where he worked for more than 25 years. According to his account, the plan consisted of including millions of people in the Death Master File, the federal database that records deaths in the United States.
Being mistakenly included in that registry can have devastating consequences: blocked accounts, loss of benefits, problems working legally, banking difficulties, and suspension of basic procedures. In practice, for the administrative system, the person is listed as dead.
The U.S. Social Security Administration maintains that the list of 2.7 million names was not ultimately incorporated into the death registry. But the complaint opens a new front on the use of personal data, immigration, and administrative power during the Trump Administration.
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