His associates took control of the US Treasury, responsible for distributing federal funds of trillion dollars, a measure denounced by democratic elected officials as “extremely dangerous” and has been brought to justice. “Corruption and waste are eliminated in real time”, argued Elon Musk, to whom Donald Trump commissioned to run a committee of “government efficiency” (DOGE). The Treasury Office’s payment system manages federal capital flows, including the $6 trillion earmarked each year for pensions, Medicare health insurance, federal employees’ salaries and other substantial expenses. CORVERSE According to the Washington Post, Finance Minister Scott Bessend gave his blessings for this taking over control of the payment system, which was made possible only after a high-ranking public official was placed on an administrative holiday for refusing to give the system keys to Elon Musk’s teams. Trade unions and a human rights defence organization appealed to justice in Washington against this takeover. By appeal a federal judge is asked to declare illegal the fact that Musk or other DOGE members may receive personal information about taxpayers. ‘The persons who have to share information with the federal government should not be obliged to share it and with Elon Musk or his DOGE’, is underlined in the appeal. In X, whose social media is owned, Musk wrote that “the only way to stop fraud and waste taxpayers’ money is to be able to monitor payment flows and block suspicious transactions to examine them.” CORVERSE The American president welcomed the work of Elon Musk, who knows “to cut costs. Sometimes we don’t agree and we don’t go where he wants to go. But I think it does a very good job.” According to Wired website, Tesla, X and SpaceX’s boss put young people working for DOGE in government key positions. These groups now have unprecedented access to the payment system, which they have had until now exclusively non-partisan high-ranking public officials. These Musk people, aged 19 to 24, according to the American press, were also appointed within the Office of Personnel Management, the human resources agency of civil servants, who sent them last week an electronic letter suggesting that they resign with nine-month salary compensation. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren , a member of the Senate committee responsible for banks, in a letter to Bessend described the situation as “extraordinarily dangerous.” “I am concerned that with one of your first measures as minister, you seem to have given control of a very sensitive system responsible for the personal data of millions of Americans – and a key pillar of our government – to a billionaire who has not been elected, and to an undefined number of surveyors who do not have the required qualifications,” he writes in the letter. She also estimates that the demarcation of qualified personnel “increases the risk of the country not being able to repay its debt, which could cause a global financial crisis.” In X, Elon Musk promised “a guaranteed sight” in response to a post, saying DOGE would discover “fraud and corruption on an unprecedented scale on numerous government agencies”.
Musk takes control of the US Treasury payment system
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