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Tech billionaire Elon Musk ripped alleged "fraudulent" Treasury payments connected Saturday arsenic reports circulated that the Department of Government Efficiency has gained acces to the national government's outgo strategy arsenic the 2nd Trump medication continues cutting what they accidental is authorities abdominous and overspending.
"The @DOGE squad discovered, among different things, that outgo support officers astatine Treasury were instructed ever to o.k. payments, adjacent to known fraudulent oregon violent groups. They virtually ne'er denied a outgo successful their full career. Not adjacent once," Musk, the seat of DOGE, posted aboriginal Saturday greeting to X.
Musk's station came conscionable up of the New York Times reporting Saturday day that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted DOGE unit entree to the outgo system. The Treasury spends astir $6 trillion per twelvemonth connected payments for national agencies.
The ranking Democrat connected the Senate Finance Committee, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, posted to societal media connected Saturday that helium has besides been informed that DOGE was granted entree to the system.
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"Sources archer my bureau that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* entree to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to authorities contractors, including those that vie straight with Musk's ain companies. All of it," Wyden posted to societal media tract BlueSky connected Saturday evening.
DOGE's reported entree to the outgo strategy comes aft the Washington Post reported connected Friday that the erstwhile acting manager of the Treasury, David A. Lebryk, was readying to exit the concern section of the national authorities pursuing a clash implicit granting DOGE entree to its outgo system. Lebryk oversaw the Treasury Department successful the days betwixt President Donald Trump's inauguration connected Jan. 20 and Bessent's confirmation to pb the section connected Jan. 27.
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On Friday, reports besides dispersed that civilian servants wrong the Office of Personnel Management, which works arsenic the national government's HR department, were reportedly locked from the office's machine systems by DOGE.
Musk quipped connected X connected Saturday that moving implicit the play is simply a "superpower," wherever the "opposing team" vanish for 2 days.
"Very fewer successful the bureaucracy really enactment the weekend, truthful it’s similar the opposing squad conscionable leaves the tract for 2 days! Working the play is simply a superpower," helium posted.
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Trump officially created DOGE via an enforcement bid signed on his archetypal time successful office. The EO outlines that authorities bureau chiefs supply DOGE with entree to interior authorities platforms specified as, "software systems, and IT systems."
"Agency Heads shall instrumentality each indispensable steps, successful coordination with the USDS Administrator and to the maximum grade accordant with law, to guarantee USDS has afloat and punctual entree to each unclassified bureau records, bundle systems, and IT systems. USDS shall adhere to rigorous information extortion standards," the enforcement bid reads.
Trump and Musk had agelong previewed the instauration of DOGE portion connected the run trail, championing that the squad would weed retired overspending and fraud wrong the national government. DOGE is not a authorities department, but alternatively operates arsenic a squad wrong the Trump administration.
Before Trump's triumph successful November, Musk hosted the Republican president for an interrogation connected X successful August, wherever Musk railed against authorities overspending and ostentation that has gripped the federation successful caller years.
"A batch of radical conscionable don’t recognize wherever ostentation comes from. Inflation comes from authorities overspending due to the fact that the checks ne'er bounce erstwhile it’s written by the government. So if the authorities spends acold much than it brings in, that increases the wealth supply. If the wealth proviso increases faster than the complaint of goods and services, that’s inflation," Musk said during their conversation.
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"So truly we request to trim our authorities spending, and we request to re-examine… I deliberation we request a authorities ratio committee to accidental like, ‘Hey, wherever are we spending wealth that’s sensible. Where is it not sensible?’"
Since its authoritative instauration past month, DOGE's X relationship has provided updates connected its enactment to chopped authorities spending, including announcing past week that it has chopped much than $1 cardinal from national spending done now-defunct diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and personnel.
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