The US military lawmaker warned that Elon Musk representatives received a “complete approach” by the US Treasury Payment System, which is used to distribute the trillion dollars to Americans every year, and that the approach to Musk’s system is “national security risk.” .
Senator Ron Wyden, a member of Oregon’s Democratic Party and a member of the Senate Finance Committee Posts on Bluesky on Saturday According to the source, Secretary of State Scott Bessent gave the Musk team, known as Doge on Friday. The approval is the standoff at the beginning of the week, followed by the standoff. I left the department System access at the request of the musk team’s system.
“Payment to government contractors, including social security and Medicare benefits, subsidies, and contractors who compete directly with their own companies. Wyden wrote in the post, referring to Doge’s approach.
New York Times Also reported The Bessent gave Doge access to the Treasury’s payment system on Friday. It is called Tom Krause that one of the DOGE representatives granted access. Cloud software groupCitrix and other companies. Krause did not return Techcrunch’s request for opinion. The financial spokesman did not mention it when I sent an email on Saturday.
This is an order for Musk and his colleagues to take over the internal work of the US federal government after Trump took office on January 20, and after his inauguration, Trump immediately ordered Musk to start a wide range of cuts for federal spending. I did it.
The System operated by the Treasury Bureau controls about $ 6 trillion federal funds to US households, including social security and Medicare benefits, tax refunds and payments to the US federal employees and contractors. Wyden’s letter And I sent it to Bessent a day ago. Access to the payment system has historically limited to several employees because it contains personal information about millions of Americans who are paid by the federal government. Depending on the time.
According to Wyden’s letter, the payment system said, “All people who can not fail, and all who are politically motivated can seriously damage our country and the economy.”
Wyden said in his letter that MUSK’s extensive business operation in China was concerned about creating conflicts of “threatening our cyber security and“ achieving national security risk ”.
Last year, the BIDEN administration criticized China for a series of invasion of the US’s important infrastructure, violating several US telephone and Internet giants, and violates the financial system of the Ministry of Finance at the end of last year. “It is rare to give an access to sensitive systems to individuals with significant business interests in China,” said Wyden, a long -time member of the Senate Information Committee.
Several federal departments, including the federal government’s own personnel department, known as the employee management office, are closely investigated by Doge.
Reuters I reported on Friday The Musk has closed career officials in a computer system that includes millions of federal employees’ personal data and human resource files. The OPM was hacked in 2015, and the US government later stolen personnel records for more than 22 million US civil servants, including employees who were later dependent on China.
