Edward Markey: “Last week, thanks to a courageous whistleblower, we learned…”

“So last month, thanks to court filings, we learned that the so called Department of of government efficiency DoGE employees agreed to turn over sensitive Social Security data to a right wing political advocacy group peddling conspiracy theories of voter fraud. Last week, thanks to a courageous whistleblower, we learned of allegations that a former DOGE employee put millions of American Social Security numbers and sensitive financial information on personal thumb drives intending to share them with his private employer. And recently, thanks to a lawsuit, we learned that DOGE employees asked ChatGPT to choose which federal grants were so called DEI and should be canceled.” (03:25–03:45)

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