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US District Judge Ellen L Hollander blocked the Department of Government Efficiency’s unlimited access to sensitive Social Security Administration data, claiming that the DOGE’s attempts to find fraud at the program were “tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer.”
Hollander, in her 137-page ruling, mentioned that the DOGE team “engaged in a fishing expedition” at the Social Security Administration and was “in search of a fraud epidemic.” She opined that the Department of Government Efficiency was searching for a needle in a haystack “without any concrete knowledge” of it being there in the first place.
Ellen Hollander also lashed out at the Donald Trump Administration for not orchestrating a “more tailored, measured, (and) titrated approach” and stated how it repeated “its incantation of a need to modernize the system and uncover fraud.
