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Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base


Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

This Thursday, June 8, 2017, photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to “read only” access to department payment systems, this is not true. A 25-year-old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems, which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the U.S. government, including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments.

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