Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-mills-social-security-maine-leland-dudek_n_67ed2d99e4b0b937ab8f135c
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-mills-social-security-maine-leland-dudek_n_67ed2d99e4b0b937ab8f135c
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Thats very concerning.
This is the stupid olymipics. Hope the people who they’re trying to steal from find them.
Pick stupid people, win stupid prizes. It guy bumped up cuz he agreed with Doge lul
Just throw it on that pile of “acts that would be impeachable under any other administration in the history of this country”.
Tf does this guy think he works for?!?
He told his team he didn’t care if US citizen identities were stolen so he could retaliate against Maine’s governor. He works for us.
>According to emails obtained by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Social Security staff informed Dudek that canceling the contracts “would result in improper payments and potential for identity theft.”
>Dudek told his staff to go for it.
>“Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,” Dudek wrote, referring to Mills.
Maine’s Gov. Mills did the right thing by taking a stand for trans people in her state, so to punish her Dudek signed off on harming other vulnerable populations to satisfy Trump’s penchant for retribution against anyone that defies him. It’s obscene.
Is this the *Weaponization of Government* I’ve been hearing about? Did they finally find it?
Just more politics of revenge. It’s the motivating factor for the GOP fascists.
Hey Susan Collins, you think he learned his fucking lesson yet? Or do you need to furrow your brows a little harder this time?
Leland Dudek is a currupt puppet that couldn’t care less about doing the right thing.
Using his office as a bludgeon for Donald? Weaponizing offices that are supposed to be apolitical?
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“See you in court!”
> “Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,”
Harming Americans to seek childish revenge is what Republicans do with our government of the people now.
Yay.
I wonder how Susan Collins feels about this treatment of her constituents…if only she had been in a position to do something about this years ago.
Hurting Americans because a Governor refused to hurt Americans. Wild stuff we’re doin these days.
>“Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,” Dudek wrote, referring to Mills.
The shitty logic and cruelty on this guy.
They’re hurting the citizens of Maine to punish the governor. Real nice governance, assholes.
I look forward to no one being held accountable
Things are getting worse by the day and I’m not really sure what’s next anymore. Something like this is so ludicrously evil that it would have been unthinkable a few months ago. How do we survive another 4 years of this?
He reinstated it after 24 hours. Did he not think this through? Did he think the people of Maine would blame their governor or the guy who did it?
Government by intimidation.
“He said he hadn’t intended to create an “undue burden on the people of Maine,” though his internal email suggests otherwise.”
And the party said to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
In any normal time, this would result in an immediate resignation for malfeasance. Screwing over hundreds of thousands of Maine citizens because the Maine Governor said something the President didn’t like? Republicans, you are going to bring about the downfall of our democracy if you continue to be on-board with this stuff.
Referring to the female governor as a “petulant child.” Despicable disrespect and misogyny.
I’m sorry, is this not a crime?
Looking for waste, fraud, and abuse but taking actions that increase waste, fraud, and abuse? What the actual fuck?
It’s really great that the Trump admin signed an EO on January 25th “ENdiNg the wEAPONIZaTiOn oF thE feDErAl GoVERnMEnT “
The weaponization they accused Democrats of doing.
>“Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,” Dudek wrote, referring to Mills.
>Canceling the vital records contracts would make it more difficult for the federal government to track births and deaths in Maine, hampering efforts to prevent fraud across government agencies, all of which use Social Security records to prevent improper payments.
It’s totally not a fascist shithole that will thrown new borns into working the mines and at water wars
Sounds like an act of war against American Ctizens to me.
I work for MN State Government. MN has received ZERO federal funds into our system since January 20th. We have checked with counter parts in other states and they have received funds. Checking the electoral map, the states that are getting federal funds are Red states.
I have no idea why this is not a major story. It is obvious MN is being punished. I know the MDH funding has been in the news in MN, but MN, like Maine is in a bad spot.
Why are we paying federal taxes if we don’t get the benefit??
This sounds like fraud, waste, and abuse to me.
>> “Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,” Dudek wrote, referring to Mills.
They are such liars. They don’t care at all about “abuse and fraud.” Like, I know this, but it’s just wild seeing them just say it out loud.
Oh look, more illegal actions from the 34 time felon.
Unbelievable. Can anyone argue that this is not an autocracy at this point?
The United States of Fascism
>Dudek had been a mid-level IT staffer at Social Security before being put on administrative leave for helping Elon Musk’s DOGE team access sensitive databases inside the agency. The Trump administration tapped him to lead the agency after more senior officials refused to cooperate with Musk’s team.
Wow. Your least favorite co-worker is suddenly elevated to CEO.
How can people just sit there and allow him to tear us apart and destroy us. Public servants my ass.
Lol, admitting to corruption in writing on publicly available emails is exactly the kind of incompetence you expect from a Trump appointee
The Commander in Chief sets a pretty good example of how to be a petulant child.
State of Maine stop paying fed taxes then.
Wasn’t this guy, just a matter of months ago, claiming that the federal government was being weaponized against him? odd…
So the GOP is okay with waste fraud and abuse as long as it results from their efforts to hurt Americans?
>According to emails obtained by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Social Security staff informed Dudek that canceling the contracts “would result in improper payments and potential for identity theft.”
>Dudek told his staff to go for it.
>“Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,” Dudek wrote, referring to Mills.
Decisions like this are just going to keep happening and we’re all going to suffer while the clowns in charge suck up our tax money into their pockets.
Criminal in charge of the executive branch doing illegal shit should not be surprising.
regulatory capture/crooked crony capitalism/american corruption/fascism. Take your pick. Funds should not be held back because they were for vulnerable groups, or the government protecting such. Btw, they are CITIZENS, why are you attacking CITIZENS? authoritarianism belongs nowhere in the borders of the USA.
Impeach. Now. Hard.
Leaders responsible for this kind of thing belong in prison.
what a petty, small man. it’s truly, gotta be a micropenis.
They’re literally doing the exact opposite of everything they promised and campaigned on, and a lot of americans are cheering them on because it involves bigotry and racism.
Maybe the best course is just to let the fire continue and maybe something better will rise from the ashes.
>“Please cancel the contracts. While our improper payments will go up, and fraudsters may compromise identities, no money will go from the public trust to a petulant child,” Dudek wrote, referring to Mills.
As we’ve been screaming from the start: Cruelty is the point.
These are evil people. They get joy from causing suffering in others. They are everything their religion teaches against.
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