A former senior Social Security official says the Trump administration weighed a plan to digitally "kill off" 2.7 million living people in a bid to force them to self-deport. In a whistleblower complaint reviewed by the Washington Post, 25-year agency veteran Jeremiah Schofield alleges that officials tied to Elon Musk's DOGE wanted those names inserted into the government's "Death Master File"—a move that can instantly sever access to paychecks, bank accounts, and benefits.
Schofield says agency lawyers warned that falsely listing people as dead could break federal law, and his own spot-check of 25 names from the list turned up only living people, including US citizens, green card holders, teenagers, and senior citizens. He alleges a DOGE official later said the goal was to push immigrants to either leave the country on their own or show up at Social Security offices, where they could be arrested. It "was one of the most disappointing calls I've been in in my 25-year career," Schofield tells the Post. "I was shocked. I couldn't believe what I was hearing."
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