{"id":17595,"date":"2025-02-02T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/elon-musks-doge-team-granted-full-access-to-federal-payment-system\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T16:38:38","slug":"elon-musks-doge-team-granted-full-access-to-federal-payment-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/elon-musks-doge-team-granted-full-access-to-federal-payment-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Doge team granted \u2018full access\u2019 to federal payment system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Trump\u2019s treasury secretary gives the world\u2019s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s government-slashing crew, the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d, has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk\u2019s own businesses, an influential US senator has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon and the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/wyden.senate.gov\/post\/3lh5ejpwncc23\">posted on Bluesky<\/a> that sources had confirmed to him that the Treasury\u2019s highly-sensitive database had been opened up to the tech billionaire and his team.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/02\/elon-musk-doge-access-federal-payment-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0ceba536be4339c3da9f210babba1315a88921db\/0_239_4418_2650\/master\/4418.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=88a704ac44e58a2486312045112e7047\" title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s Doge team granted \u2018full access\u2019 to federal payment system\" \/>Trump\u2019s treasury secretary gives the world\u2019s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s government-slashing crew, the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d, has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk\u2019s own businesses, an influential US senator has confirmed.<br \/>\nRon Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon and the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, posted on Bluesky that sources had confirmed to him that the Treasury\u2019s highly-sensitive database had been opened up to the tech billionaire and his team. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s treasury secretary gives the world\u2019s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases Elon Musk\u2019s government-slashing crew, the \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d, has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/elon-musks-doge-team-granted-full-access-to-federal-payment-system\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk\u2019s Doge team granted \u2018full access\u2019 to federal payment system<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}