Business Insider: Elizabeth Warren and top Democrats are asking Social Security to halt plans they say would pave the way for more DOGE firings

Top Democrats are urging the Social Security Administration to scrap plans that they say could make it easier for agency employees to be fired by DOGE. It's the latest push from the party's "Social Security War Room."

In a Friday letter exclusively obtained by BI, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Kristen Gillibrand called on new SSA Commissioner Frank Bisgnano to immediately stop any action that would reclassify staff members to a new category labeled Schedule F or Schedule Policy/Career.

The move would give the White House more control over the hiring, firing, and management of SSA employees by categorizing some as "policy-influencing" - a designation that means workers who were civil servants before, with the protection that affords, would become at-will, and are therefore able to be terminated more easily.

"Converting these SSA employees' status is a deliberate maneuver to make it easier to get rid of critical SSA staff, endangering the program and the benefits earned by millions of Americans," the senators wrote.

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