The Trump administration put a mid-level bureaucrat in charge of SSA after he violated a bunch of policies to try to give DOGE access to sensitive data and then

The Trump administration put a mid-level bureaucrat in charge of SSA after he violated a bunch of policies to try to give DOGE access to sensitive data and then publicly complained about being investigated for it. This guy has proven himself to be thoroughly incapable of doing such an important job in a disciplined, non-partisan manner. He admitted to cutting off the contract that allows births an deaths to be automatically registered in Maine (which caused parents of newborns to go in person to social security offices) because he didn't like how the governor of Maine spoke to Trump. He's pulled a bunch of other stunts, like threatening to shut down social security payments because a judge issued an order he didn't like. It's emblematic of what's happening across the government. Serious people are being replaced by incompetents who are there purely for their loyalty to the President and have no scruples or sense of public service.