Illon Musk walks in the Capitol Hill on a meeting with a Republican leader of the Senate John Thun (R-SD), in Washington, December 5, 2024.
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Five precedents Treasury trustees On Monday, he warned that the recent measures in the Treasury by the Trump administration officials and the Dog Ilon Musk team are “a great cause of concern” of undermining the financial obligations of the United States “illegally.”
“We faced during our service in the Treasury the moments of the crisis New York Times For example.
“Any hint of the selective comment of the approved payments from Congress will serve as a breach of confidence, and in the end, it will be difficult to restore our credibility and credibility, as soon as they are lost,” they wrote.
“The treasury minister should not be placed in his first weeks in his position in the position that is necessary to reassure the nation and the integrity of our payment system or our commitment to success in our financial obligations.”
But Kevin Haysit, Supreme Economist of President Donald Trump, rejected the concerns of the former trustees during an interview with “Squawk Box” in CNBC.
He said that Treasury Secretary Scott Payette, “was found that the controls on the spending of the previous administration (Biden) were unacceptable. They were sending money without knowing where the money would go.”
Hasit also said the idea that Musk was behaving, as he put it, “The Master of Doll” in the Treasury was “Poppycock”.
“Elon Musk in the office next to me,” Haysit said. “It is not in control.”
The previous confidentiality that was written by Robert Robin, Lawrence Samars, Timothy Jaithner, Jacob Lu and Janet Yellen, all of them served under Democratic presidents: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Kevin Haysit
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The fencing novels come amid the escalation of legal battles on reaching the highly sensitive payment systems of the Ministry of Treasury, which were sought by the members of the government efficiency team of Musk.
With Dog and other elements from the Trump administration to reduce federal spending and employee factors, the government’s payment system, which is run by the financial service of the Treasury, drew their attention.
Their introduction was martyred in reporting last week through the Times that the Chief of Staff of the Treasury was originally pushed to a member of the Musk’s Doge team, Tom Krause, “to receive a close access system so that the US Treasury for International Development can.”
The newspaper pointed out that the emails seen by the Times “Interpretation of the Basic Treasury” for the reason for granting Kraos and other members of the Musk team access to the payment system, which spends more than $ 5 trillion in federal financing.
The Treasury said that Kraos and his team “drag” an assessment of the operational effectiveness “does not include the prohibition of agency’s payments,” the Times stated.
In their introduction, former trustees said the arrival of “recovery” has a long practice of payment systems run by “a very small group of non -party civil employees.”
“The roles of these non -party officials have been at risk Political actors From the so -called Ministry of Governmental efficiency.
The former trustees wrote: “We take the exceptional step of writing this article because we are concerned about the risks of arbitrary and volatile political control over federal payments, which will be illegal and erosion of our democracy.”
Haysit, who leads the National Economic Council, argued strongly against the assumption of the foreground and the demands of the two.
“Can we talk about the treasury message first?” Hasait Hosts request “Squawk Box”. “There is a lot of wrong information in it.”
“Let’s only make it clear that the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessin, is responsible for the treasury.”
“Bessin has found that the controls on the expenditure of the previous administration (Biden) are unacceptable,” Haysit said.
“They were sending money without knowing where the money was going. They were sending money without knowing, as you know,” what was it? “They did not come true before they sent the money, whether it was allocated,” said Hasit.
“There is a lot of work to be done to clarify this,” Haysit said.
“This idea is that there is a puppet master that tells the treasury minister of what to do, and thus all treasury secretaries need to be, such as, this is just the left media, as you know, Poppycock.”
“Why do we put fake things about what Elon does, because we are just trying to know where the money will go,” said Haset.
“I think perhaps, in the end, we will find that a lot of money went to bad places.”
