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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System 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.

It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits. 
 
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
 
Congress must investigate.

Crazy idea but could some US senator call the Sec of the Treasury and ask him what the fuck is going on?

@corybooker.com, you voted for him. You and the 14 other Dems who also did need to get answers

@wyden.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov must also given their key roles

A few mountain peaks with a glacier above Moraine Lake. The mountains appear light blue and the water looks dark blue in the shade. Beams of light are coming over the mountain. There are conifer trees along the shore on the right side and little bits of branches line the sides of the photo

Today, I'm officially launching #Stunday with #EastCoastKin. Here's one of the most stunning places I've been: Moraine Lake

Thanks to everyone sharing their stunning art!

#PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotoSky #nature #photography

Dr. Margaret Strickland Collin’s studied termites, and was the first Black woman to earn PhD in entomology. siarchives.si.edu/blog/margare...

#BlackHistoryMonth #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Supreme Court rejects Utah's push to wrest control of public land from the federal government The Supreme Court is turning back a push by Utah to wrest control of vast areas of public land from the federal government.

Latest move in US Federal v States rights
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