{"id":33662,"date":"2025-02-18T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/acting-social-security-head-who-denied-access-to-musk-team-leaves-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:03:08","slug":"acting-social-security-head-who-denied-access-to-musk-team-leaves-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/acting-social-security-head-who-denied-access-to-musk-team-leaves-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting social security head who denied access to Musk team leaves agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle King opts to retire after 30 years rather than grant request by \u2018department of government efficiency\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The acting head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) left the agency after she refused to give billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> and the so-called \u201ddepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) access to sensitive information about beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>The SSA processes retirement and disability benefits for more than 71 million Americans \u2013 and it uses sensitive personal information, such as banking information and tax information, to do so.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/18\/musk-social-security-administration-michelle-king\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle King opts to retire after 30 years rather than grant request by \u2018department of government efficiency\u2019 The acting head of the Social Security Administration (SSA) left the agency after she refused to give billionaire Elon Musk and the so-called \u201ddepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) access to sensitive information about beneficiaries. The SSA processes retirement &#8230; <a title=\"Acting social security head who denied access to Musk team leaves agency\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/acting-social-security-head-who-denied-access-to-musk-team-leaves-agency\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Acting social security head who denied access to Musk team leaves agency\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}