Donald Trump’s new treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, had granted the billionaire’s Doge team “full access to this system”.
Wyden added that the data bonanza included “social security and medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors … All of it.”.
Confirmation of the arrangement suggests that Musk, the world’s richest person, now has entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases.
The system controls more than $6tn of federal cash flow each year, with millions of Americans depending on it for social security and medicare benefits, federal salaries, and more.
But since the advent of the Trump administration on 20 January, members of Musk’s Doge team have been battering to be given access.
According to the New York Times, Lebryk had been placed on administrative leave after he objected to Doge agents being given access.
Before confirming the deal, Wyden had already sounded the alarm about Musk’s attempts to break into such a sensitive federal database. »
