'We would call it a coup': watchdogs and Dems attack Elon Musk Treasury Department takeover
The dramatic power play began Friday, continued through the weekend -- and poses extraordinary and unprecedented threats to ...
How an arcane Treasury Department office became ground zero in the war over federal spending
A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to ...
Trump appoints the Treasury secretary, a former hedge fund executive, as acting head of consumer protection agency
In what appears to be yet another move to consolidate parts of the federal government, President Donald Trump has appointed ...
DOGE task force gains access to U.S. Treasury Department payment systems
News comes after departure of Treasury's acting Deputy Secretary David Lebryk after more than 30 years of service.
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Elon Musk Lieutenants Given Access To US Treasury Department’s Payments System: Report
Representatives from a team led by billionaire businessman and political activist Elon Musk have been granted access to the ...
Trump Names Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, to Lead the Consumer Bureau
The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...
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How an arcane Treasury Department office became ground zero in the war over federal spending
A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to talk about the handover of power. But what is normally a routine ...
Trump names Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
President Donald Trump has tasked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with serving as the acting director of the Consumer ...
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Musk takes control of US Treasury payments systems
Elon Musk's aides have taken control of the US Treasury Department's payments system -- which manages trillions of dollars of ...
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Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments
By Andrew Duehren Alan Rappeport Theodore Schleifer Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman Reporting from Washington The Trump administration pushed out a top Treasury Department official this week ...
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Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup?
The world’s richest man now has the power to override congressional spending decisions and access to private information ...
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Musk Surrogates Are Reportedly Seeking Access to Treasury Department’s Payment Systems
Surrogates for billionaire Elon Musk have demanded access to the systems that the U.S. Department of the Treasury uses to distribute ... Musk, who owns X, formerly Twitter, has repeatedly ...