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Statement from Acting Commissioner Dudek about Temporary Restraining Order

March 21, 2025 • By

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“Today, the Court issued clarifying guidance about the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) related to DOGE employees and DOGE activities at the Social Security Administration (SSA). Therefore, I am not shutting down the agency. President Trump supports keeping Social Security offices open and getting the right check to the right person at the right time. SSA employees and their work will continue under the TRO.”

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  1. S. G.

    It looks like it is too late. DOGE must have already either been hacked or given the data to bad actors. I just received a spam text to my phone that asked for a confirmation to purchase on Amazon and referenced my bank and was sent to my cell phone number. The only place that would have both of these is the Social Security Administration. Our worst nightmares about our information being compromised has just been realized. God protect us all.

    • Bill P.

      Stop your dreaming or making up stories just to try and justify your beliefs.

    • Sue

      Stop blaming doge. Social security has major problems before DOGE got access. More than likely your phone or email has been hacked.

  2. Hugh K.

    If you have nothing to hide then why are you fighting to let the DODGE team do its job. We pay for social security out of of our wages and to let Illegals get one penny of it & to have people stealing its by fraud applications for social security payments really angers me to say the least. STOP giving anything to illegals an by fraudulent applications!!!!!!!!

    • Carolyn

      You are simply stupid. Wait until this Dodge affects YOU! I HOPE IT DOES SOON.

      • Jeff K.

        Your anger Carolyn is another example of the fear of change. It is coming and you will need to accept that the voters overwhelmingly voted for this need to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in the SS Agency and all other government operations. Hang on a sit is going to be a great ride.

        • Sky

          there was no “overwhelmingly” vote for this “need” to eliminate your anything. You are painfully mislead. The vote was only 49%.

          • Sue

            What are you worried about. None of your concerns are valid. The team is a good thing and will help to upgrade the system to run more efficient. Please quit trying to scare people. They know what they are doing and too smart to ever jeopordize their job. They get paid well to do the job.

        • NakedStranger

          tRUMPER … [and, “Yes”, that’s a “dirty word” … tRUMP EARNED it … ]

      • Sue

        They have no need to give our information to people. If anything doge would find hacks to the systems. They get paid enough not to risks selling your information to someone. Who would screw up a good job with good pay to sell your information. I worked for the federal government and I would be worried about the careless workers who do not get paid that much for an admin job. The DOGE people can only help the system by finding fraud so that the system can go on without reducing payments in 2030. Honestly of all the things to worry about the DOGE team having access should be at the very bottom of a long list. I am a 22yr veteran and worked in communication and IT. That team can only do good things for social security. Boomer to boomer!

  3. Bob

    The wording of this statement is quite clear. Prior to the court intervention, the acting commissioner was literally going to shut down SSA.

    That’s really disturbing.

    • Sue

      Correct, the judge has no right saying who can have access when it comes to government employees. Is her court now going to say who gets acess to what in the government. The government is efficient enough to only give access on a need to know basis. They have been doing it for a very long time. Please dont spread misinformation by some person political agenda.

  4. Debbie H.

    Why in the world would the acting commissioner issue such a statement if not only to cause confusion and fear. Please get Doge out of official federal government business and get workers back to work.

  5. Sue B.

    How long will it take before Mr Trump and Mr Musk shut down Social Security. I paid into this my entire life and I am afraid it won’t be there when I finally do retire. Those 2 are poison for our country.

    • DT

      You idiot, Musk is helping to save Social Security by finding and eliminating fraud and waste. He is not making any cuts to benefits.

    • SUE

      They are not shutting down. In fact he is trying to save it. You do know it is in trouble and we could be reduced to 75%. You have been mislead by a political agenda i am sorry to say. As a social security recipient I can asure you that the team is here to help. I hate that people have gotten seniors worried about this. Please dont be worried. Its not good for us and your pay is safe.

  6. Dan

    In light of this administration’s blatant disregard for the Constitutional separation of powers, do you honestly think anyone can believe your one paragraph press release?

  7. Joe H.

    Hang in there!

  8. Suzanne

    Please stop playing with our lives. The country depends on the money we have paid into this program.

  9. Frank D.

    Dudek, you are a forking idiot. Fork you and Musk and DOGE and Trump.

    • Rose

      Keep up! A judge issued an ambiguous ruling. He asked for clarification rather than guess.

  10. William W.

    Did the Acting Commissioner say she was going to shutdown SSA? What was the reason?

    • alice g.

      he can’t shut down the agency. what kind of empty threat is this? frankly, i don’t trust a single thing this man says.

    • Brad

      What about cancelling telework? I thought you promised to honor the collective bargaining agreement?

    • Lewis W.

      Trump and Dodge will not shut down SS. They are making it better for retirees.

    • Sharon M.

      Acting Commissioner Dudek threatened to shut down the SSA unless he got “clarification” from the judge re: who could access protected personal information if the “DOGE kids” weren’t allowed to access it.

    • Dan F.

      I can’t find anything about a threat to shut down SSA. Just the news that DOGE isn’t permitted to fish around in SSA to try to justify their wildly exaggerated claims about fraud.

    • DJ T.

      I have the same question.

    • Lia

      Yeah, kinda what I read too;

    • a

      All of these trump appointee are disgusting

    • Matt R.

      No DOGE. With Elon Musk. But for this statement to say Trump doesn’t also want too. Is a big lie. Republicans have wanted to shut down SSA in some way, just isn’t easy to do.

    • Dennis H.

      Acting commissioner is not a she!!!

    • Rich

      Same question. It’s news to me. The one thing they should leave alone is SSA. Some of the systems still run on mainframe software like cobal… So they would have to resurrect my grandfather to fix it.

    • Babylon S.

      He could not understand or read the English language.

    • Shelly O.

      I read it that way too? Saying that if the TRO had not been issued that the SSA would be shut down?

      This was a very confusing message.

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