Washington, United States:
The United States Treasury said Tuesday that the Elon Musk government reform team can read data from its highly sensitive payment system but not alter it, after Democratic legislators gave the alarm for the measure and asked for an investigation. Musk, the richest person in the world, is the leader of federal cost reduction efforts of President Donald Trump under the so -called Government Efficiency Department (Doge).
As part of that impulse, according to the reports, he pressed for a team led by the Ti Krause Executive to receive access to the closely saved payment system of the Treasury Department, which manages billions of dollars of transactions, from Social Security and the Social Security and the Medicare payments to federal wages.
In response, Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent a letter on Tuesday to the Congress surveillance agency that demanded that the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, personally granted Musk and her assistants that permit personally.
The treasure, in a letter sent to Congress and shared with AFP, confirmed that the Krause team has access to the system, but said it is “reading only access … to continue this operational efficiency evaluation.”
They said that the permission was “similar to the type of access that the treasure provides to the people who review the treasure systems, such as auditors.”
Musk’s efficiency impulse has encountered a strong opposition from democratic legislators, who have raised a wide range of legal and ethical concerns about their movements to reduce federal expenditure.
In a separate letter sent to Republican President Donald Trump on Tuesday, other Democratic policy formulators expressed concern about Doge’s work that involves government data and facilities.
Labor unions and a base defense group have also opposed the movements, presenting a law Let that happen.
In an X publication, the social networks platform that it possesses, Musk said on Monday that “the only way to stop fraud and waste money from taxpayers is to follow payment flows and stop suspicious transactions for revision” .
Musk’s access to the payment system was approved by Besent and made it possible when an official of his career was put on administrative license after refusing to allow entry, according to the demand. The official later retired.
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