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Senate report says DOGE accessed SSA, GSA and OPM systems without oversight; Peters urges halt
Summary
A report cited by Senator Gary Peters alleges personnel from the Department of Government Efficiency accessed systems at the SSA, GSA and OPM without accountability and that SSA found "up to a 65%" risk of a catastrophic breach; Peters called on the agencies to halt those operations pending review.
Senator Gary Peters, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, is urging the Social Security Administration, the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management to halt operations by the Department of Government Efficiency after a report and whistleblower accounts raised data-security concerns.
The report, described on the Senate Democrats' side, says staff investigations and whistleblower accounts indicate DOGE personnel have been working "without any accountability to agency leadership, congressional oversight, or the public," according to the material summarized in the transcript. The material does not record a direct quotation from Peters but attributes the report and its characterizations to him.
As an illustrative example, the report cites an SSA risk assessment that the transcript summarizes as warning of "up to a 65%" chance of a catastrophic breach, and states that affected data remain in systems "without any verified security controls." The transcript does not provide the risk-assessment document itself or additional technical details about the assessment's methodology.
Peters, as reported, called on SSA, GSA and OPM to immediately halt DOGE operations and access to information systems "given the risk of a serious data breach." The transcript records the call for a halt as a demand in the report; it does not record responses from agency officials or any immediate administrative action by the agencies.
The allegations in the report rest on staff investigations and whistleblower accounts described in the material; the transcript does not record documentary evidence beyond the report summary, nor does it include agency responses or independent verification. The transcript similarly does not record any formal congressional vote or committee action in response to the report.
Next steps were not recorded in the transcript. The article reports the claims and the call for halting DOGE access as presented in the summarized report; agency statements and further documentation were not included in the provided material.
