The Treasury Department’s highest-ranking career official is stepping down after clashing with Elon Musk and DOGE staffers who demanded access to sensitive payment systems that control the disbursement of Social Security, Medicare, and more, according to new reporting from The Washington Post. Groundwork Collaborative Executive Director Lindsay Owens reacted with the following statement:
“The Trump administration’s claims that they won’t touch Social Security and Medicare are obviously lies. Musk and his DOGE cronies are already demanding unprecedented access to the payment system that distributes these funds and are ousting any civil servant who gets in their way.
“It’s barely been two weeks and Musk has already caused a level of chaos and inefficiency we’ve never before seen in government.”
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