The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that “The Trump administration acknowledged for the first time that members of the U.S. DOGE Service accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, months after a whistleblower raised concerns.”
Former First Lady of California, Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family and ex-wife of former Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, responded to the report on Musk’s platform X, and asked: “Is Elon Musk going to explain this to all of us?”
Shriver received many replies simply stating “no,” an answer used by both the disappointed and the defiant. One commenter left a reminder for Shriver about the Supreme Court allowing DOGE to access the sensitive Social Security Administration data of millions of Americans.
Is Elon Musk going to explain this to all of us? https://t.co/etBhhnoPfe
— Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) January 21, 2026
House Social Security subcommittee ranking member John Larson (D-CT) and Ways and Means Committee ranking member Richard Neal (D-MA) said that DOGE “appointees engaged in this scheme — who were never brought before Congress for approval or even publicly identified — must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for these abhorrent violations of the public trust.”
[Note: The Supreme Court ruling was largely interpreted as granting DOGE permission to access social security information, but not to share it.]
The Trump Administration just admitted that ‘DOGE’ sent confidential records to Elon Musk’s consigliere, traded data on a private server, and schemed to hand your information to a group trying to overturn elections. They must be fully investigated & prosecuted for their crimes. pic.twitter.com/2mpjZugkAy
— Rep. John Larson (@RepJohnLarson) January 21, 2026
Larson added: “Democrats have warned about these violations. It’s past time for Republicans to break their silence on what could be the largest data breach in our history.”