4 days ago · Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately reassured Republican lawmakers Monday that Elon Musk and his team do not have control over a sensitive government system that manages the flow of ...

1 day ago · 2 p.m. EST, Feb. 6 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg DOGE is not “tinkering” with the government payment systems the agency has access to, and Musk’s agency is conducting an ...

1 day ago · US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he personally vetted the Treasury employees on Elon Musk’s government efficiency team with read-only access to federal payment data, and that there’s ...

1 day ago · Nine days after his swearing in, Scott Bessent sat down with Big Take DC host Saleha Mohsin at the US Treasury Department.They discussed topics in his purview dominating the headlines — Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts, tariffs — and his plans for taxes, trade, the Fed and more.Listen and follow The Big Take DC on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcastsTerminal clients: click ...

2 days ago · U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, however, came to Musk and DOGE's defense Wednesday on "Kudlow." "Elon Musk is the greatest entrepreneur of this generation," Bessent told FOX Business host ...

2 days ago · But Bessent lauded Musk's efforts to cut government spending and said "DOGE is not going to fail," unlike previous government efficiency drives such as the Grace Commission in the 1980s and ...

3 days ago · However, some Democrats are not convinced about the notion that DOGE, Musk and Krause have read-only access. “Some Republicans are trying to suggest that Musk only has ‘viewing access’ to Treasury’s highly sensitive payment system as if that’s acceptable either,” said Sen. Patty Murray, (D-Wash.), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, in a statement.

4 days ago · The Treasury Department was accused of breaking federal law by giving Elon Musk’s team of government efficiency enforcers access to a trove of personal and financial information — setting up a ...

6 days ago · Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

4 days ago · DOGE: Unions representing federal workers sued the Treasury Department and its head, Scott Bessent, in an effort to block Musk and his team from accessing the federal payment system.