People working for or with, Elon Musk would have taken over the interior functioning of several government agencies, including the staff management office, the Treasury Department and the General Services Administration.
The Washington Post reported Friday that the best ranked career official in Treasury leaves the department after “a confrontation” with people working for the so-called government efficiency department (DOGE) of Musk on “Access to sensitive payment systems », Quoting three nameless sources.
DOGE officials have requested access to the system – which controls the flow of more than $ 6 billions per year to programs such as social security and health insurance – since after the November elections. The Trump administration has sought ways to stop the federal money flow appropriate by the congress, in particular by hastily ordering a freezing of confusing expenses, which say the experts violates the constitution.
Reuters too reported Friday, musk aid “locked the career civil servants of IT systems which contain the personal data of millions of federal employees”, citing two managers of the nameless agency. Disclosed documents obtained by the staff of Wired Show Musk have taken over the General Services AdministrationA government agency that manages offices and federal technology.
In the government, technological workers are Be toasted And subject to criticism of code by musk aid, reported Thursday. Musk and his team too seem to have been involved In a recent e-mail on a government level offering employees the opportunity to resign.
The federal government’s disruption by Musk to date follows closely the chaotic days according to its takeover of Twitter, as detailed by books as a “character limit” and other relationships from the time.
It represents an unprecedented takeover within the American government, and which directly contradicts the initial statement of Doge. When Donald Trump is first announcement In November, after winning the elections, the idea was to set up DOGE as an entity outside the federal government which would make recommendations on the place to reduce expenses.
This is not what happened.
After its inauguration, Trump signed an executive decree which renamed the American digital service to the “US Doge Service”, which means that Musk is now working inside the government. He would have an office in the west wing of the White House, but is also apparently sleep At the Doge’s office, according to Wired.
This article has been updated to include a new Wired report that Elon Musk staff also infiltrated the General Service Administration.
