From the Washington Post:
Frank Bisignano, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Social Security Administration, testified under oath at his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he has had no contact with the Elon Musk cost-cutting team that is directing a major downsizing of the agency.
But Sen. Ron Wyden (Oregon), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said the claim is “not true,” citing an account the senator said he received from a senior Social Security official who recently left the agency. The former official — whose detailed statement was shared with The Washington Post — described “numerous contacts Mr. Bisignano made with the agency since his nomination,” including “frequent” conversations with senior executives.
The nominee “personally appointed” Michael Russo, the chief information officer leading Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service team at Social Security, and the two speak frequently about agency operations, the former executive said.
The Post confirmed the former official’s account with two people, including another former senior official who heard Russo speak regularly about his interactions with Bisignano over policy changes. The other, a disability advocate, said she was told by acting commissioner Leland Dudek that the nominee and Russo “spoke multiple times a day” about Social Security operations. The advocate requested anonymity to preserve her relationship with the agency, while the former official did so because they were not authorized to disclose internal details….
The former official said in their statement to Wyden that after Russo had trouble persuading the career staff to expedite the hiring of a DOGE software engineer named Akash Bobba, “Mr. Bisignano personally intervened … to instruct SSA staff to onboard Mr. Bobba and give him immediate access” to the agency’s private data systems. Bisignano did not address what role he may have had in helping Bobba gain access. Bobba and Russo did not respond to requests for comment. …
13 comments:
Trump appointee is a liar - what a shock. At least he's not a convicted felon.
Frank Bisignano job is to put a fork on this agency., Wall Street is currently corking champagne bottles since the privatization mission is almost accomplished. The key is that Republican leader promised not to touch the agency but he outsourced the job so he could keep his hands clean.
I fear Frank is going to come in and cut even more heads. We’ll be lucky to have 30,000 employees by the end of his term.
Perjury and lying to the federal government are both crimes that could land a person in some serious legal trouble. If convicted of either crime, a person could be looking at up to five years in prison. This means that if a person is found to have lied during a congressional hearing or investigation, or simply lied to an FBI or other federal agent, actual jail time could result.
Dems tried and tried to pin anything on Mr. B but nothing stuck. He withstood Wyden and Pocahontas’s best. Now the question is how many will he RIF? Talk about bringing Grok to SSA?
Pssstttt....its only a crime if they are on the other side, if its one of your guys its not a crime. Law and justice are tools of those who write them and they get to pick who they are used against.
You’re still a racist Nazi even if Trump is your stupid president. And her name is Elizabeth Warren, you racist creep.
Why not just admit to it? It is not especially controversial to coordinate with people already remaking the agency. The willingness to callously lie on behalf of the admin is a loyalty perquisite.
Frank Bisignano will finish what Dudek started. Right now the Wall Street Casino is drooling in full anticipation of getting their hands on stealing Social Security for themselves and Frank is their man to deliver the goods...and cash...
Bless your heart, thinking these trumpers will be held to account or that they care about the rule of law. Such a quaint concept…the rule of law
Pro tip: You lose all credibility when you use silly, racist nicknames. It gets clicks on Twitter, but it pretty much ends there.
...yet
Perjury is a felony. However, the convicted felon in the White House would just issue him a pardon.
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