Musk rips ‘fraudulent’ Treasury funds as studies mount DOGE has entry to federal fee system

Tech billionaire Elon Musk ripped alleged “fraudulent” Treasury funds on Saturday as studies circulated that the Division of Authorities Effectivity has gained acces to the federal authorities’s fee system because the second Trump administration continues slicing what they are saying is authorities fats and overspending. 

“The @DOGE crew found, amongst different issues, that fee approval officers at Treasury had been instructed at all times to approve funds, even to identified fraudulent or terrorist teams. They actually by no means denied a fee of their complete profession. Not even as soon as,” Musk, the chair of DOGE, posted early Saturday morning to X. 

Musk’s put up got here simply forward of the New York Instances reporting Saturday afternoon that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted DOGE personnel entry to the fee system. The Treasury spends roughly $6 trillion per yr on funds for federal companies. 

The rating Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, posted to social media on Saturday that he has additionally been knowledgeable that DOGE was granted entry to the system. 

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Elon Musk is heading the Division of Authorities Effectivity. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)

“Sources inform my workplace that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* entry to this technique. Social Safety and Medicare advantages, grants, funds to authorities contractors, together with people who compete instantly with Musk’s personal firms. All of it,” Wyden posted to social media website BlueSky on Saturday night. 

DOGE’s reported entry to the fee system comes after the Washington Publish reported on Friday that the previous performing director of the Treasury, David A. Lebryk, was planning to exit the finance division of the federal authorities following a conflict over granting DOGE entry to its fee system. Lebryk oversaw the Treasury Division within the days between President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 and Bessent’s affirmation to guide the division on Jan. 27. 

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On Friday, studies additionally unfold that civil servants inside the Workplace of Personnel Administration, which works because the federal authorities’s HR division, had been reportedly locked from the workplace’s pc methods by DOGE. 

Musk quipped on X on Saturday that working over the weekend is a “superpower,” the place the “opposing crew” disappear for 2 days. 

“Only a few within the paperwork truly work the weekend, so it’s just like the opposing crew simply leaves the sphere for two days! Working the weekend is a superpower,” he posted. 

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Trump formally created DOGE through an govt order signed on his first day in workplace. The EO outlines that authorities company chiefs present DOGE with entry to inner authorities platforms similar to, “software program methods, and IT methods.”

“Company Heads shall take all obligatory steps, in coordination with the USDS Administrator and to the utmost extent according to regulation, to make sure USDS has full and immediate entry to all unclassified company information, software program methods, and IT methods.  USDS shall adhere to rigorous information safety requirements,” the manager order reads. 

President Donald Trump indicators govt orders within the Oval Workplace on Jan. 20, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)

Trump and Musk had lengthy previewed the creation of DOGE whereas on the marketing campaign path, championing that the crew would weed out overspending and fraud inside the federal authorities. DOGE just isn’t a authorities division, however as an alternative operates as a crew inside the Trump administration. 

Earlier than Trump’s win in November, Musk hosted the Republican president for an interview on X in August, the place Musk railed in opposition to authorities overspending and inflation that has gripped the nation lately. 

President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk arrive to attend a viewing of the launch of the SpaceX Starship rocket on Nov. 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures)

“Lots of people simply don’t perceive the place inflation comes from. Inflation comes from authorities overspending as a result of the checks by no means bounce when it’s written by the federal government. So if the federal government spends way over it brings in, that will increase the cash provide. If the cash provide will increase sooner than the speed of items and companies, that’s inflation,” Musk stated throughout their dialog. 

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“So actually we have to cut back our authorities spending, and we have to re-examine… I feel we’d like a authorities effectivity fee to say like, ‘Hey, the place are we spending cash that’s smart. The place is it not smart?’”

Since its official creation final month, DOGE’s X account has supplied updates on its work to chop authorities spending, together with saying final week that it has minimize greater than $1 billion from federal spending by way of now-defunct range, fairness and inclusion initiatives and personnel. 

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Fox Information Digital reached out to the White Home and Treasury Division on Sunday morning, however didn’t instantly obtain replies.