Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal want answers from the Social Security Administration chief following a whistleblower complaint that revealed a DOGE plan to target undocumented immigrants by moving 2.7 million living people to the agency’s Death Master File.
In letters sent Friday to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano and three DOGE alums — Antonio Gracias, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling — the lawmakers shared the protected disclosure of a former career SSA official, Jeremiah Schofield, who spent more than 25 years at the agency.
Schofield, an expert in the process by which the SSA assigns Social Security numbers and cards, was called to meetings with the three DOGE representatives and other career agency staff to discuss potential fraud and the Numident system, which includes all information applicants must disclose for a Social Security card.
Following a pair of Department of Homeland Security orders from then-Secretary Kristi Noem involving Numident and the Death Master File, Schofield said he “was asked to develop a strategic approach to ‘killing off’” individuals’ Social Security records, adding that he “understood that this directive had come from DHS and ‘killing off’ meant marking these individuals as deceased in the Numident system.”
Schofield shared his concerns with Stephen Evangelista, then the SSA’s deputy commissioner for the Office of Retirement and Disability Policy, who called DOGE’s Koval and asked why DHS wanted to eliminate 2.7...
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