Original Date Announced

The New York Times reported on April 10, 2025 that the Social Security Administration (SSA) reached an agreement with DHS sometime in February to share the last-known addresses of 98,000 people with ICE. During the first Trump administration, DHS reportedly also pushed for access to SSA data, but those efforts were rebuffed due to privacy concerns.

Trump 2.0 [ID #1681]

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.02.21 Complaint - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA

The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, the AFL-CIO, the Alliance for Retired Americans, and the American Federation of Teachers file a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), seeking declarative and injunctive relief to stop DOGE from unlawfully seizing "personal, confidential, private, and sensitive data," including "financial data, employment information, medical data, and personal addresses of millions of Americans" from the Social Security Administration. The lawsuit challenges the seizures as unlawful under the Internal Revenue Code, the Privacy Act, the Federal Information Systems Modernization Act, the E-Government Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Am. Fed'n of State, Cnty. & Mun. Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration, No. 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Md.).

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Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.03.20 Temporary Restraining Order - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA

District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the SSA from allowing DOGE to obtain access to records systems containing personally identifiable information and requiring DOGE to delete "all non-anonymized PII data in their possession or under their control." Am. Fed'n of State, Cnty. & Mun. Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration, No. 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Md.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.04.15 Reported: DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs - The Washington Post

The Washington Post reports the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is seeking data and information from the Social Security Administration in order "to ascertain people’s citizenship status." DOGE has gained "increasing access to claimants’ full names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, mailing addresses, contact information, bank details" and a "dataset with highly sensitive personal information, including applicants’ driver’s licenses, citizenship status and various other markers." DOGE has continued seeking this information, despite a temporary restraining order issued in American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. Social Security Administration, 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Md.).

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.04.17 Preliminary Injunction - American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO v. SSA

District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander issues a preliminary injunction, enjoining and restraining the SSA from allowing DOGE to obtain access to records systems containing personally identifiable information and requiring DOGE "delete all non-anonymized PII data in their possession or under their control." Am. Fed'n of State, Cnty. & Mun. Emps., AFL-CIO v. SSA, No. 1:25-cv-00596 (D. Md.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.08.27 SSA - Data-Sharing Agreement with ICE

SSA sent a letter to ICE describing its data-sharing plans: ICE will submit a monthly request to SSA for information on about 50,000 immigrants. SSA will then search its database for matches and produce identity and location information for each requested noncitizen, including known alias(es), address, place of birth, banking data, known phone number, known email address, names of known relatives, and known internet-protocol addresses.

The letter was produced as part of litigation in Cmty. Econ. Dev. Ctr. of SE Mass. v. Bessent, No. 25-cv-12822 (D. Mass.).

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2025.09.30 Complaint - CEDC v. Bessent

Four community organizations filed suit against the administration to challenge the data-sharing agreements and practices between the SSA and ICE, and between the IRS and ICE. Plaintiffs allege that the “unfettered interagency data-sharing” violates the Tax Reform Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and First Amendment, and chills tax filing by immigrants who fear exposing themselves and family members to arrest, detention, and removal. Cmty. Econ. Dev. Ctr. of SE Mass. v. Bessent, No. 25-cv-12822 (D. Mass.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

Subsequent Trump and Court Action

2026.01.27 Order Denying Preliminary Injunction - CEDC v. Bessent

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani denied plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction against the SSA. The court found that plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, as the record is “not sufficient to make a finding that sharing of tax information between SSA and ICE has or is likely to occur.” It states that the record is insufficient to support plaintiffs' claim that the February 2025 data transfer, as described by the New York Times on April 10, 2025, involved confidential tax information. It also cited an SSA declaration attesting that sharing of tax information with ICE has yet to take place, despite the August 27, 2025 data-sharing agreement. Cmty. Econ. Dev. Ctr. of SE Mass. v. Bessent, No. 25-cv-12822 (D. Mass.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**