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Treasury Department officials said Tuesday that the agency last week “mistakenly” and “briefly” gave a member of Elon Musk’s team the power to alter a sensitive federal payments database, prompting an internal forensic investigation that remains ongoing.
The disclosure, made in a series of court filings, undercuts the Trump administration’s repeated public claims that the DOGE team’s access to the federal payments system was limited to a “read-only” basis.
Senior Treasury officials wrote in sworn declarations that Marko Elez, a 25-year-old former SpaceX and X engineer, was erroneously granted “read/write” privileges to a secure payments system on Feb. 5.
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Thanks Lapsody. This clears up all the allegations made prior to Feb 5 that DOGE was entering cancellations of payments, etc directly into TPS. Same for allegations made after Feb 5 as well. BTW, you forgot to bold this,
Elez didn't know he had write access, they are investigating but think there's little chance anything happened.
We should all complement the watchdogs over at Treasury who caught the mistake the next morning and corrected it the same day. Good for them. The Treasury Dept announcement also reflects the ongoing push for transparency in our Government. We got a refreshing, timely and straight forward admission of the mistake and its correction.
Now we are assured that everything goes through standard request processes to Treasury Dept employees authorized to enter transactions into TPS. The unproven allegation that DOGE is entering directly is finally settled and we should not be hearing this particular allegation any longer. But we all know we will because the allegation is so effective at keeping the liberal anxiety level cranked up to Defcon 1.
