Self-professed 'doge Person' Frank Bisignano Gets His Confirmation Hearing To Lead Social Security

Frank Bisignano, a self-professed "DOGE person," faces questions about whether the Trump administration plans to privatize Social Security as he appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday for his hearing to serve as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

Bisignano, a Wall Street veteran and one-time defender of corporate policies to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination, will be called to account for the upheaval at the agency in the weeks since President Donald Trump's election.

The agency has taken center stage in the debate over the usefulness of Department of Government Efficiency cuts to taxpayer services and their effect on Social Security, the social welfare program long regarded as the third rail of national politics - touch it and you get shocked.

The hearing follows a series of announcements of mass federal layoffs, cuts to programs, and a planned cut to nationwide Social Security phone services .

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon sent a letter to Bisignano this week asking him to commit to protecting all Social Security components from privatization.