Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.
The system could give the Trump administration another mechanism to attempt to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress, a push that has faced legal roadblocks.
Does this also give them access to know who donated to what parties? If so, it’s probably so that they can make a list to jail people like me that donated the other party that isn’t Tromp.
Your political donations are a matter of public record. Unless you are an oligarch
Isn’t this public info already that is on the FEC website?
I have no idea. I’ve never donated before this past year. Where would I check that?
Good luck.