Why is Elon Musk rooting around in your most sensitive personal and payments information?

 

 

"The system is responsible for paying Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to contractors and grant recipients, and tax refunds, among tens of thousands of other functions."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/01/elon-musk-treasury-payments-system/

 

 

 

"The system run by the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service controls the disbursements of around $6 trillion in federal funds to American households, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax refunds, and payments to U.S. federal employees and contractors, according to a letter written by Wydenand sent to Bessent a day earlier. Access to the payments system was historically limited to a few staff because it contains personal information about millions of Americans who receive payments from the federal government, per the Times."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/senator-warns-of-national-security-risks-after-elon-musks-doge-granted-full-access-to-sensitive-treasury-systems/

 

Read more about this unprecedented and illegal action by an unelected private individual at

Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

Washington Post mentions Tom Krause, "a Silicon Valley executive working in concert with Musk".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/01/elon-musk-treasury-payments-system/