President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency pushed to declare nearly 3 million living people dead as part of an effort to drive illegal immigrants out of the country, according to a new report.
The plan, which officials say never went into effect, would have placed scores of people — including some U.S. citizens — into the Social Security Administration's "Death Master File," effectively deleting them from the American financial system, jeopardizing their ability to access wages, benefits and banking services.
Jeremiah Schofield, a longtime Social Security employee who left his job last year, disclosed details of the alleged plan in a lengthy whistleblower report filed with two Senate committees, The Washington Post reported.
Schofield claimed that a DOGE official partnering with the Department of Homeland Security outlined the goal of classifying 2.7 million living people as deceased: making immigrants "so miserable" that they would voluntarily leave the U.S. or travel to government offices for assistance, where they could be detained and deported.
"That call was one of the most disappointing calls I've been in in my 25-year career," Schofield told the Post. "I was shocked. I couldn't believe what I was hearing."
Administration officials pushed back against Schofield's claims.
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