Edit to add: Despite some news headlines saying DOGE is now “barred” from US Treasury systems, I believe they are still allowed read-access according to other reports.
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>US Treasury Department and White House officials have repeatedly denied that technologists associated with Elon Musk’s so-called [Department of Government Efficiency](https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk/) (DOGE) had the ability to rewrite the code of the payment system through which the vast majority of federal spending flows. WIRED reporting shows, however, that at the time these statements were made, a DOGE operative did in fact have write access. Not only that, but sources tell WIRED that at least one note was added to Treasury records indicating that he no longer had write access before senior IT staff stated it was actually rescinded…
“Yeah but you can imagine what it’d be like if he didn’t.”
PM_Me_Your_ManThighs on
Bessent has been on the job for less than two weeks and is already lying to Congress for Trump and Elon. What a stooge, and for what?
We gotta retake the House so Democrats can haul his ass in on threat of contempt and make him answer for what I’m sure will be a long list of transgressions by then.
xjoomyboy on
Even if the US Treasury misplaced its keys to DOGE, I like to think there’s still a secret vault of happiness where we left some good laughs and hope for tomorrow.
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Edit to add: Despite some news headlines saying DOGE is now “barred” from US Treasury systems, I believe they are still allowed read-access according to other reports.
Extract:
>US Treasury Department and White House officials have repeatedly denied that technologists associated with Elon Musk’s so-called [Department of Government Efficiency](https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk/) (DOGE) had the ability to rewrite the code of the payment system through which the vast majority of federal spending flows. WIRED reporting shows, however, that at the time these statements were made, a DOGE operative did in fact have write access. Not only that, but sources tell WIRED that at least one note was added to Treasury records indicating that he no longer had write access before senior IT staff stated it was actually rescinded…
>As WIRED [has reported](https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/), Elez was granted privileges including the ability to not just read but write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: the [Payment Automation Manager](https://fiscal.treasury.gov/pam/) (PAM) and [Secure Payment System](https://fiscal.treasury.gov/sps/) (SPS) at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), an agency that according to Treasury records paid out $5.45 trillion in fiscal year 2024. Reporting from [Talking Points Memo](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-cronies-dive-into-treasury-dept-payments-code-base) confirmed that Treasury employees were concerned that Elez had already made “extensive changes” to code within the Treasury system. The payments processed by BFS include federal tax returns, Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits, and veteran’s pay.
“Yeah but you can imagine what it’d be like if he didn’t.”
Bessent has been on the job for less than two weeks and is already lying to Congress for Trump and Elon. What a stooge, and for what?
We gotta retake the House so Democrats can haul his ass in on threat of contempt and make him answer for what I’m sure will be a long list of transgressions by then.
Even if the US Treasury misplaced its keys to DOGE, I like to think there’s still a secret vault of happiness where we left some good laughs and hope for tomorrow.