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Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department

New court documents shed light on what a 25-year-old DOGE employee named Marko Elez did inside Treasury Department payment systems. They also provide extensive new details about which systems Elez accessed, the security precautions Treasury IT staff took to limit his access and activity, and what changes he made to

Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at the cybersecurity consultancy Hunter Strategy, says the steps the Treasury staff took to ensure Elez didn't exceed the level of authorization he was granted sound "reasonable." According to a separate affidavit filed by another career civil servant at Treasury named Vona Robinson, deputy assistant commissioner for federal disbursement services at the Bureau, Elez may have made a change to help staff more quickly identify specific types of payments in the system. But this may actually refer to the change Elez and Bureau staff made to send a copy of foreign aid payment requests – which were supposed to be temporarily blocked per the president's executive order – to a secure portal for the secretary of state to review.

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