Whistleblower Blows Lid Off DOGE Plot To Declare Millions Dead (opens in new tab)

The Trump administration came up with a dystopian idea (quelle surprise!), to reportedly cook up a plan to declare 2.7 million living people — among them U.S. citizens, legal residents, teenagers, and retirees — officially dead, The Washington Post. The goal: weaponize Social Security's identity database to functionally delete people from the financial system, cutting them off from paychecks, bank accounts, and government benefits. You know, the kind of stuff living people tend to need to sur...