Musk’s Brazen Cost-Cutting Campaign Is Annoying GOP Senators, Treasury Staff
- Tesla CEO and team of young acolytes have roiled Washington
- Republican lawmakers protest moves gently, and only in private
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When Elon Musk and his team of young deputies gained access to the Treasury Department computer network that the US government uses to pay its bills, and where private financial data of nearly every American is stored, it caused alarm across the country.
It also seemed to put Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the middle of a delicate standoff between bureaucrats at the agency he is charged with leading and President Donald Trump’s loudest adviser.