Whistleblower: Feds Sought to Falsely Declare Millions Dead

A former senior Social Security official says the Trump administration weighed a plan to digitally “kill off” 2.7 million living people in a bid to force them to self-deport. In a whistleblower complaint reviewed by the Washington Post, 25-year agency veteran Jeremiah Schofield alleges that officials tied to Elon Musk’s DOGE wanted those names inserted into the government’s “Death Master File”—a move that can instantly sever access to paychecks, bank accounts, and benefits.

Schofield says agency lawyers warned that falsely listing people as dead could break federal law, and his own spot-check of 25 names from the