Elizabeth Warren comes down heavily on Elon Musk, says, 'He is meddling with trillions in U.S treasury via unqualified flunkies'
DOGE) of Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been reportedly granted access to the Treasury Department's payment system which eventually manages trillions of dollars in federal payments while including Social Security and Medicare as well, reported Benzinga.
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According to Benziga, this access was approved by the present Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shortly before the resignation of David Lebryk who was a career official and also opposed the involvement of DOGE. The situation has reportedly raised severe alarms among the Democratic lawmakers which included the renowned Senator Elizabeth Warren and who ended up describing Tesla CEO Elon Musk's influence as ‘extraordinarily dangerous’ and eventually criticized the transfer of sensitive data to an unelected billionaire.
Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also voiced their severe concerns while putting an emphasis on the fact that having Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his associates involved in critical government functions actually poses a great threat to national security, asserted Benzinga. Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez highlighted that such actions should require Congressional approval specifically regarding the proposed merger of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with the State Department.
In spite of several assurances from the Treasury that Tesla CEO Elon Musk's team has only ‘read-only’ access and that payments are not being disrupted, at the same time, numerous experts have issued warning that this
