President Donald Trump’s administration planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead in a push to make “immigrants so miserable that they self-deported,” a whistleblower alleges.
Former senior Social Security executive Jeremiah Schofield, who worked at the agency for over 20 years, claims in a 49-page whistleblower disclosure to the Senate that the plan was part of Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts – though it was ultimately not carried out.
The effort would have barred people, including some U.S. citizens, from the country’s financial system, blocking them from receiving wages and government benefits.
Schofield claimed he “refused to help implement the plan after agency lawyers warned that falsely marking living people as dead could violate federal law,” according to a report from The Washington Post, which reviewed the disclosure and spoke with Schofield.
“Schofield said he realized the plan’s possible intent — to intimidate and worsen the finances of immigrants — as well as its potential unlawfulness after taking a sample of people from the 2.7 million and discovering they were all alive,” the report reads. “Some were U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, teenagers and senior citizens, including one widow who was a legal permanent resident receiving survivor benefits.”
The report continued:
Schofield’s whistleblower complaint describes a tumultuous period inside Social Security, as career officials questioned the legality of such efforts and watched DOGE officials...
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