The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Treasury said Friday that he was launching an audit of security controls for the federal government’s payment system, after the Democratic senators increased the red flags on the red flags onThe access providedFor Trump, the Elon Musk’s assistant government efficiency team.
The audit will also review the last two years of the transactions of the system in relation to the affirmation of Musk of “alleged fraudulent payments”, according to a letter from Loren J. Sciurba, attached to the Inspector General of the Treasury, which was obtained by Associated Press.
The Audit marks part of the broader effort led by Democratic Legislators and Federal Employee Unions to provide transparency and responsibility forDoge activitiesunder the republican administration of President Donald Trump. The Musk team has pressed for access to government computer systems and has sought to eliminate tens of thousands of federal workers.
“We hope to start our field work immediately,” Sciburba wrote. “Given the breadth of this effort, the audit will probably not be completed until August; However, we recognize the danger that inappropriate access or inappropriate controls can represent the integrity of sensitive payment systems. As such, if critical problems come to light before that time, we will issue updates and provisional reports. “
The multimillionaire of technology Musk, who continues to control Tesla, X and Spacex, among other companies,claims to find waste, fraud and abuseWhile providing savings with taxpayers, many of their statements so far have no basis. But there is a risk that the aggressive efforts of their team can lead to the failure of government computer systems and allow Musk and their partners to obtain private information maintained by the Government.
The democratic sensation Elizabeth Warren by Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon led the impulse for the investigation of the inspector general.
On Wednesday, Warren, Wyden and Senator Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, sent a letter toTreasury Secretary Scott BesentObserving the inconsistencies in the accounts provided by your department on Doge.
“His lack of frankness about these events is deeply worrying given the threats to the economy and the public of Doge’s interference, and must provide a clear, complete and public accounting of who accessed the systems, what they were doing and why They were doing it, ”the Democratic legislators wrote in their letter.
The Treasury Department provided contradictory information about Doge’s access to the payment system. Initially, he said that access was read alone, just to recognize that a member of the Doge team briefly had the ability to edit code, and then say in an affidavit of employees that the ability to edit was granted by accident.
The 25 -year -old employee granted access, Marko Elez, resigned this month after racist publications were discovered in one of his social media accounts, just for MuskCall for his returnwith the back of Trump and vice president JD Vance.
Defense groups and unions haveArchive demandsOn the potential unauthorized access of DEGE to sensitive treasure payment systems, and five former secretaries of the Treasury have sounded the alarm of the risks associated with the Dux de Musk accessing the payment systems of the confidential treasury department and potentially stopping the Authorized payments with Congress.
Earlier this week, the treasure refused to inform a couple of higher -ranking legislators in the Senate Finance Committee, including Wyden, about the current dispute related to the use of treasure payment systems by treasure of Doge, citing ongoing litigation.
By Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak Associated Press
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