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“This report concludes that DOGE is jeopardizing Americans’ most sensitive data, while its employees operate under a layer of secrecy that shields them from meaningful oversight and accountability,” the report’s authors wrote. The post New York Times: Democratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans’ Data appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Nearly 100 doctors who have practiced at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued a mass letter on Wednesday raising “urgent concerns” about Trump administration policies that they said will “negatively affect the lives of all veterans”. The letter sent to congressional leaders, Doug Collins, the VA secretary, and the agency’s inspector general marks the first time VA physicians have spoken collectively about staffing cuts and aggressive privatization moves at the nation’...| Government Accountability Project
The Trump administration has launched an internal investigation into FEMA employees who signed a public letter to Congress warning that the administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency is undermining emergency response and endangering the public. The post CNN: Trump administration launches investigation into FEMA workers who warned disaster agency was at risk appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
A federal whistleblower alleged a Trump administration official made "inaccurate statements" to a federal court, as part of the attempted deportation of around 600 Guatemalan and Honduran kids from the U.S. —including 69 from Arizona—over Labor Day weekend. The post Tucson Sentinel: Whistleblower: ‘Inaccurate statements’ to court put kids at risk as officials prepped Labor Day deportations appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
We are approaching the two-year milestone of Government Accountability Project’s investigation into Norfolk Southern’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the wrongdoing that happened in its wake. The post Two Years of Investigating East Palestine appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
In a striking opinion, Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had misleadingly presented its actions as a “reunification” effort, bringing children back to their parents in Guatemala who it said had requested their return. The post New York Times: Judge Blocks Administration From Immediately Removing Guatemalan Children appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
There’s some good news related to the Trump administration’s concerted attack on the Social Security Administration: Thus far, it doesn’t appear to have significantly affected the delivery of benefits. Checks are still going out and payments into beneficiaries’ bank accounts are still arriving on time. Beyond that, however, the system is going to hell.| Government Accountability Project
Today, Government Accountability Project sent a protected whistleblower disclosure to Congress on behalf of its clients alleging that the Acting Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) made inaccurate statements to U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. These statements could put at least 30 children at risk of abuse, neglect, human trafficking, torture, and other forms of violence if returned to Guatemala. The post Official Gave Federal Judge Inaccurate Assurances on Safety of Ch...| Government Accountability Project
More than two dozen children from Guatemala whom the Trump administration sought to deport earlier this month had been flagged as vulnerable to child abuse and human trafficking in a Health and Human Services Department database that tracks unaccompanied children, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed to Congress on Tuesday. The post New York Times: Whistle-Blower Account Contradicts Government’s Claims on Guatemalan Children appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Voice of America Whistleblowers Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, and Kathryn Neeper are the three named plaintiffs in Government Accountability Project’s lawsuit against Kari Lake, the CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the supervising agency for Voice of America (VOA), and USAGM’s Acting Director, Victor Morales. On March 21, 2025, Government Accountability [...] The post Voice of America Whistleblowers appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.| Government Accountability Project
The letter led by the Government Accountability Project asks for an investigation to be launched and once completed, "find that DHS has illegally retaliated against the FEMA whistleblowers and order immediate corrective action," including fully reinstating each worker to their jobs.| Government Accountability Project
The 119th Congress Poses a New Opportunity to Protect Whistleblower Rights for Federal Judiciary Employees By: Maya Efrati, Olivia Hynes, Tara Davoodi In 2022, the Chief Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit received information that federal judge Kindred had engaged in misconduct. The ensuing investigation produced| Government Accountability Project
DOGE's actions have effectively created "a live copy of the entire country’s Social Security information," lawyers for chief data officer Charles Borges alleged in the Aug. 26 complaint, which contends the information is on a server that lacks security oversight and a way to track who has accessed the data.| Government Accountability Project
Whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration since January, said the potential sensitive information that risks being released includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.| Government Accountability Project
The top data official from the Social Security Administration is warning that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk of exposure to malicious actors.| Government Accountability Project
A whistleblower accused officials tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of putting the personal details of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) most sensitive database into a “vulnerable” cloud server.| Government Accountability Project
Today, Government Accountability Project submitted a protected whistleblower disclosure to the Office of Special Counsel and congressional committees with grave allegations of data security lapses that put over 300 million Americans’ social security information at risk.| Government Accountability Project