Senators Say Bessent Misled Them on DOGE’s Treasury Access (1)

Three Senate Democrats criticized Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for what they call a “lack of candor” about what DOGE workers are doing with US payment systems.

The senators, in a letter to Bessent, accuse him of providing “inaccurate or incomplete information” regarding the access that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort had to the payment systems.

“Despite Treasury’s denials, DOGE personnel had the ability to modify system coding and were planning to use the Treasury systems to help pause payments by other agencies,” according to the letter authored by Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Jack ...