Nadia Raymond

Just populate the sensitive list with random death dates, which was totally unheard of.

And it made Jeremiah a little nervous.

It seemed like a bad precedent.

Because remember, if you make a mistake in the death master file, say, mark someone dead who isn't, it's not just their social security that gets shut off.

Anything tied to their social security number is now bricked.

The person finds out, often in pretty dramatic fashion, that they've been killed off by accident.

Like, they go to the grocery store, they try to pay with their credit card, and it doesn't work.

Then they try to pay with another credit card.

Same thing.

So they go home and call the bank.

And they're like, what's going on?

Could they have access to their money in their bank accounts or no?

Oh, my God.

So it's not even that they can't use credit cards.

They can't, like, take money that they have in the bank out of the bank at all.

It's a mess.

And now here was Doge insisting Jeremiah's team mark these 150 plus year olds as dead.

Jeremiah was like, okay, I know we don't have physical proof, but if the date of birth is right, logic says these people are for sure dead.

So it didn't seem that risky.

They did it methodically, carefully, to avoid making mistakes.