[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 10, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DATA COLLECTED BY DOGE

  (Mr. Larson of Connecticut was recognized to address the House for 5 
minutes.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Madam Speaker, I rise this morning to talk 
about a very troubling concern that is taking place in Congress.
  Madam Speaker, you may be aware that the so-called DOGE group, a 
group of individuals that was put together by Elon Musk and President 
Trump that were unvetted and unaccountable, have now gotten the data of 
more than 300 million of our fellow Americans. They have taken that 
data and put it in a cloud, making it vulnerable to being hacked. It is 
an unsecured position by people who had no right to go into 
individuals' personal data and information.
  Madam Speaker, I asked Chairman Estes yesterday if he would call a 
hearing on this so that we could bring the whistleblower in who made 
this evident and clear that this data is being kidnapped and taken to 
the cloud, which means, for those of you that don't understand this, an 
unsecure place.
  The Social Security Administration has no idea. When I asked my 
fellow Republican colleagues if they had any idea where this data was, 
they had no idea either. It is long overdue that, as an equal branch of 
government, we hold the executive branch accountable when they are 
taking people's personal data and Social Security information and 
exposing it. There is no reason why any 24-year-old, unvetted, 
unaccountable person should have access to any American's Social 
Security information.
  Madam Speaker, you have more than 177,000 Social Security recipients 
in your own district. Is there not one Republican who will stand up and 
say: We need a hearing. We demand to know where this information is. We 
want to know why they need this information.
  I think you know why. It is because they want to privatize Social 
Security. They are dissembling Social Security from within.
  Democrats are aware of this, but all citizens--whether Republican, 
Democrat, or unaffiliated--ought to be concerned and shocked by the 
fact that your data, your personal information, has been hacked by 
people who were not vetted and are unaccountable and have placed this 
in a cloud, meaning in an unsecure place, that anyone could hack into. 
Imagine that the Social Security administration has no idea what they 
have done with this data.
  We asked Elon Musk and DOGE to come before this Committee on Ways and 
Means, and they refused to come. Why? Because they believe they are 
above the law. They don't believe that they are accountable to an equal 
branch of government. Now they have gone in and taken the data that 
they were after. Why is Elon Musk after it? Because that data contains 
information about the $2.7 trillion of the people's money that is in 
Social Security.
  If I sound a little angry, it is because I am. Every American ought 
to be angered and outraged that this is going on. We vowed to protect 
their information and keep it safe and secure. This administration and 
Elon Musk have sent DOGE into Social Security to take this information. 
It is morally wrong. It is not legal, and it is long overdue that we 
take action.

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