Why Musk Is So Focused on the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, America’s ‘Checkbook’
Spending power, privacy concerns and conflicts of interest have put the bureau at the center of a political fight.
Musk staffer 'mistakenly' given ability to edit Treasury Department payment system, legal filings say
A 25-year-old associate of Elon Musk and former Treasury Department employee was "mistakenly" given the ability to make ...
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Federal judge partially blocks DOGE’s access to Treasury financial systems
The union groups alleged that the newly confirmed Bessent provided DOGE workers with “full access” to the Bureau of Fiscal ...
Treasury Department revokes access ‘mistakenly’ given to Musk aide
A former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “mistakenly” received editing access to a sensitive federal payment ...
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Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO
This morning, workers at the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) received an email announcing that Tom Krause, a software executive and Elon Musk ally, was "appointed ...
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Treasury watchdog will audit DOGE access to payment systems
A demonstrator holds up a sign during a rally in front of the Treasury Department in protest of ... liaisons accessed the personal and financial information of Americans stored by the Bureau of ...
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks DOGE’s Access to Treasury Department Data
A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive Treasury Department data.
We Are Blundering Our Way Into a Financial Crisis
Wendy Edelberg is the director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and was chief economist of the ...