{"id":7040,"date":"2025-10-13T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:21:40","slug":"social-securitys-acting-chief-resigns-amid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7040","title":{"rendered":"Social Security\u2019s Acting Chief Resigns Amid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Michelle King Resigns Amid Clash with Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Sudden Exit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle King, acting commissioner of the&nbsp;<strong>Social Security Administration (SSA)<\/strong>, resigned after tensions with&nbsp;<strong>Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dispute involved DOGE\u2019s request for access to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>confidential Social Security records<\/strong>, which SSA officials saw as a privacy violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>That was the breaking point for Michelle King,<\/em>\u201d said a senior federal official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leadership Shake-Up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>White House<\/strong>&nbsp;confirmed President&nbsp;<strong>Trump<\/strong>&nbsp;accepted her resignation and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>appointed&nbsp;<strong>Leland Dudek<\/strong>, the SSA\u2019s anti-fraud chief, as acting commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump also nominated&nbsp;<strong>Frank Bisignano<\/strong>, CEO of Fiserv, as the permanent head, calling him \u201c<em>highly qualified and talented.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Musk\u2019s Push for Transparency<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk defended DOGE\u2019s efforts to uncover waste and fraud, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>There are thousands of Americans over 120 years old\u2014on paper.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics, however, warned that such data access poses&nbsp;<strong>major privacy risks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Symbolic Shift<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>King\u2019s departure highlights a broader conflict between&nbsp;<strong>government privacy protections<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Silicon Valley-style efficiency<\/strong>\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a struggle that could reshape how federal agencies handle sensitive public data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle King Resigns Amid Clash with Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE A Sudden Exit Michelle King, acting commissioner of the&nbsp;Social Security Administration (SSA), resigned after tensions with&nbsp;Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The dispute involved DOGE\u2019s request for access to confidential Social Security records, which SSA officials saw as a privacy violation. \u201cThat was the breaking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7042,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}