Elon Musk and his Department of Government of Efficiency are tearing through Social Security, vowing to root out fraud and to rewrite the entire system's code in a matter of months. And behind the scenes,

Musk, DOGE say they're using access​ to Social Security data not just to probe claims of waste and fraud, but also to see if immigrants are abusing the system.

A divided federal appeals court set aside a court order that had blocked the government downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk from seizing sensitive data from the Treasury Department,