One of the senior legislators in the United States says that Elon Musk representatives gave “full access” to the US Treasury payment system used to disperse trillion dollars to Americans every year, and they warned that Musk’s arrival to the system represents the “danger of national security.”
Senator Ron Weiden, a Senate member of Oregon and a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said in the Senate. Published on Bluezki on Saturday These sources told the Treasury Secretary at his office, Scott Payette, the Musk team, known as the Ministry of Governmental efficiency, or Doge, to reach the very sensitive treasury system on Friday. The mandate comes after a confrontation early in the week, where the highest professional official in the treasury Department After requests from the Musk team to reach the system.
“Social Security, the advantages of medical care, grants, and payments for government contractors, including those competing directly with the Musk Private Companies. Weiden wrote in this position, indicating the arrival of Dog.
New York Times I also mentioned BESSENT Grant the Ministry’s payment system on Friday. It is said that one of the representatives of the granted Doge Group of cloud softwareThat owns Citrix and many other companies. Krause did not respond to Techcrunch request for comment. A cabinet spokesman did not comment when sending it on Saturday.
This is the last effort by Musk and its partners to take over the internal works of the US federal government after President Trump returned to his post on January 20. After his inauguration, Trump immediately ordered Musk to start making large -scale discounts to the spending of the federal government.
The system run by the Treasury Office controls the exchange of about $ 6 trillion of federal funds for American families, including social security, medical care benefits, tax recovery, and payments for American federal employees and employees, according to L. A letter by Weiden It was sent to Bessent a day ago. The access to the payment system historically was limited to a few employees because it contains personal information about millions of Americans receiving payments from the federal government, For all the Times.
According to Wyden, the payment system “cannot simply fail, and any political interference in them risk severe damage to our country and the economy.”
In his message, Widen said he was concerned that the wide commercial operations of the Musk company in China “expose American cybersecurity” and create conflicts of interests “that make him reach these systems a threat to national security.”
Last year, the Biden administration blamed China for a series of interventions targeting critical infrastructure in the United States, stealing the phone records of senior US officials during violations of many phone and Internet giants in the United States, and violating special treasury systems late last year. “It is not customary to grant access to sensitive systems for the individual with important commercial interests in China,” said Widen, who is also a long -term member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Many other federal departments are subject to audit by Dog, including the Federal Government Ministry of Human Resources, known as the Personnel Management Office.
Reuters It was mentioned on Friday Musk representatives have closed job civil service staff from computer systems, which contain personal data and human resources for millions of federal employees. OPM was hacked in 2015, which the US government later attributed to China, which led to the theft of employees’ records on more than 22 million employees in the US government, including employees who have security permits.
