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February 3, 2025

Musk & Associates Gain Access to Treasury's Federal Payment System
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The top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official has been forced
out of the agency after he resisted a demand by Elon Musk and his
associates at DOGE to gain access to the government's vast payment
system, which disburses trillions of dollars in federal payments each
year. Trump's new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ended up giving Musk
access to the system, which includes sensitive information about
taxpayers, Social Security recipients and government contractors.

Musk is also accused of waging a takeover at the Office of Personnel
Management, where career civil servants have been locked out of computer
systems.


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