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Musk could easily use this to target individuals or to crash the domestic or even global economy single-handedly.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Feb 1
Musk and his allies are ransacking the federal treasury, gaining access to closely guarded payment systems that disburse trillions of dollars and hold massive amounts of incredibly sensitive information—including Social Security numbers. Just a terrifying development. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending. The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.
February 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Musk locking Federal Workers out of their computers seems pretty alarming to me. Why isn’t this getting any response? I can’t find anybody who is looking in to this. Why? Nobody knows would he is doing in this massive database.

To some: Please stop posting this news only on Twitter.
February 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM