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Jun 5, 2026 Trump administration planned to reclassify 2.7 million living people as dead in government records, a whistleblower said Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
A whistleblower's refusal to execute a scheme reclassifying millions of living people as deceased suggests possible misuse of federal databases against immigrants.
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- Trump administration planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower says — The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, according to a whistleblower who worked at the Social Security Administration for 25 years and refused to help reclassify the people after agency lawyers warned doing so could violate federal law. The move, which the whistleblower says was possibly meant to intimidate immigrants and affect their finances, included some U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
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