Former Trump-appointed Social Security Administration commissioner Andrew Saul, who’s been stubbornly clutching onto his post after President Joe Biden axed him last week, hit a snag in his gambit on Monday.
Saul attempted to log into work from his home on Monday – only to reportedly discover he’d been blocked from the agency’s computer systems.
“I’m here to do the job, but I can’t do anything with the communications shut down,” he complained to the Washington Post.
However, the former official indicated that he wasn’t giving up the fight.
“Stay tuned,” he said.
Meanwhile, acting commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi has been working to roll back Saul’s policies, which aimed to chip away at disabled Americans’ access to Social Security benefits.
Saul, who had ignored Biden’s request for his resignation before the President fired him Friday, vowed to stay in his post, saying that he considered himself to be “the term-protected commissioner of Social Security.”
Republicans who spent four years allowing Trump to weaponize whatever agency he wanted for his political interests kicked up a fuss over Saul’s firing and accused Biden of politicizing the agency.
Repeated attempts at unauthorized access to computer systems is called “hacking” and that’s a crime that should be prosecuted.
Isn’t an unauthorized attempt to access a controlled government computer system a felony offense? I forget the stupid acronym for the law, but it is.
Showing up for work on Monday, pretending like the firing never happened. He’s trying to pull a Costanza.
I hear there is an opening for a CFO at the Trump Organization. Perhaps Saul should send in his resume. Wanting to keep money from seniors should at least get his foot in the door.
And one more time, the Republicans jump into the fray accusing everyone not themselves of ‘politicizing’ … something.