Bessent Says Musk’s DOGE Isn’t Altering Treasury Data (3)

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he personally vetted a senior Treasury employee on Elon Musk’s government efficiency team who has read-only access to federal payment data, and that there’s been no “tinkering” with the department’s payment systems.

“It is an operational review. It is not an ideological review,” Bessent said in an interview on Bloomberg Television with Saleha Mohsin on Thursday. “The ability to change the system sits over at the Federal Reserve. We don’t even run the system.”

Bessent voiced confidence for Musk’s team. “These are highly trained professionals. This is not some roving band running around ...