一位众议院民主党高层表示，他担心卫生与公众服务部（HHS）在针对政府效率部（DOGE）渗透政府信息系统的持续诉讼中，提供了错误或欺诈性的信息，并希望该部门的监察长对此展开调查。在周五发出并率先由《国会山报》披露的一封信中，众议院教育与劳动力委员会排名成员、弗吉尼亚州民主党众议员鲍比·斯科特要求HHS监察长办公室“立即”对此事展开调查。
A top House Democrat said he is concerned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided incorrect or fraudulent information as part of ongoing lawsuits into the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) infiltration of government information systems and wants the agency’s inspector general to investigate. In a letter sent Friday and shared first with The Hill, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), the ranking member on the House Education and Workforce Committee, asked the HHS Office of Inspector General to open an investigation “immediately” into the matter.
斯科特写道：“我深切担忧该部门可能在诉讼中提供虚假或不准确的信息。”他的信件重点关注了亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克（此前领导DOGE）及其团队员工的行动——这些人在2025年1月获得了联邦政府支付系统的访问权限，并暴露了数千万美国人的敏感个人信息，例如社会安全号码、纳税人识别号码、儿童信息以及家庭住址。
“I am deeply concerned about the possibility that the Department is providing false or inaccurate information in litigation,” Scott wrote. His letter focused on the efforts of billionaire Elon Musk, who previously helmed DOGE, and the group's employees — who were provided access to the federal government’s payment system in January 2025 — exposing the sensitive personal data, such as social security numbers, taxpayer ID numbers, information on children, and home addresses of tens of millions of Americans.
DOGE官员还获得了HHS内部支付和合同系统的访问权限，这些系统每年控制着向医疗服务提供者支付的数千亿美元款项。这种数据访问权限以及对该部门数据的保护问题，引发了工会和其他隐私倡导者的一系列诉讼。斯科特表示，他的担忧源于HHS拒绝配合政府问责办公室（GAO）的独立调查。他指出，该部门拒绝了GAO对部门IT系统进行标准观察性巡查的请求。在GAO提交修改后的请求，要求提供相关数据和截图作为验证后，卫生部门再次拒绝配合。
DOGE officials also gained access to payment and contracting systems across HHS that control hundreds of billions of dollars in annual payments to healthcare providers. That data access and protection of the agency sparked a flurry of litigation from labor unions and other privacy advocates. Scott said his concern stems from HHS’s refusal to cooperate with an independent probe from the Government Accountability Office. He noted the agency denied the GAO’s request for a standard observational walkthrough of the department’s IT systems. After the GAO submitted a modified request for artifacts and screenshots as verification, the health department again declined to cooperate.
斯科特表示，美国卫生与公众服务部（HHS）之所以不配合，是因为其担心提供给问责办公室的信息、材料、物品或其他文件可能与诉讼中提供的材料不一致。斯科特还于5月致信卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，要求对方详细说明该部门为何不配合调查，以及HHS在诉讼中提供的材料与将提供给政府问责办公室（GAO）的材料之间存在哪些“差异”。这位弗吉尼亚州的民主党议员表示，该部门尚未回应多次要求其“反驳其向一个或多个法院提供虚假信息”的说法。
Scott said HHS’s noncooperation stemmed from concerns that information, materials, items, or other documentation provided to accountability office may not match those provided in litigation Scott also sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in May asking for a detailed explanation about why the agency wasn’t cooperating with the investigation and what it meant by “discrepancies” between what HHS produced in litigation and what it would provide to GAO. The Virginia Democrat said the department has not responded to numerous requests to “refute the assertion that it has provided misinformation to one or more courts.”