According to reports, people working for or, Elon Musk are taking over the internal functioning of multiple government agencies, including the Personnel Management Office, the Department of the Treasury and the Administration of General Services.
The Washington Post reported On Friday that the highest ranking career official in the Treasury is leaving the department after “a shock” with people who work for the so -called Musk Government Efficiency Department (Dog) about “access to payment systems Sensitive “, citing three unidentified sources.
Doge officials have been asking for access to the system, which controls the flow of more than $ 6 billion per year to programs such as Social Security and Medicare, since after the November elections. The Trump administration has been looking for ways to stop the federal money flow appropriate by Congress, including the ordination of expenses of confusing expenses, which experts say. Viola the Constitution.
Reuters too reported On Friday that musk attendees have “blocked career public officials of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees”, citing two unidentified agency officials. Filtered documents obtained by Wired Show Musk staff They have taken charge of the General Services AdministrationA government agency that manages federal offices and technology.
Throughout the government, technological workers are Grill And subject to code reviews of the Musk attendees, Wired reported Thursday. Musk and his team too It seems to have been involved In a recent email from the entire government that offers employees the opportunity to resign.
The Musk interruption of the Federal Government so far tracks the chaotic days closely after its acquisition of Twitter, as detailed by books as “characters limit” and other reports since the time.
It represents an unprecedented power within the United States government, and one that directly contradicts the declared original purpose of Doge. When Donald Trump first announced In November after winning the elections, the idea was to establish Doge as an entity outside the federal government that would make recommendations on where to reduce spending.
That is not what happened.
After its inauguration, Trump signed an executive order that renamed the United States digital service to the “Doge Service of the United States”, which means that Musk is now working within the government. According to reports, it has an office in the west wing of the White House, but apparently it is also sleeping In Doge’s office, according to Wired.
This article has been updated to include a new Wired report that Elon Musk staff has also infiltrated the administration of the general service.