There are several reasons Musk wants to control Treasury payments. None of them are good. An unelected and unaccountable billionaire wants to dictate what working families can and cannot afford.

The Tesla leader is a big-picture visionary, while the OMB pick is an in-the-weeds technocrat.

A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to ...

Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” deputies have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that ...

Musk’s allies repeatedly demanded access to sensitive government payment systems, according to the Washington Post.

New reporting raises concerns that Musk wants to control Medicare and Social Security through access to payment systems.

A top Treasury official left the agency after Elon Musk's allies allegedly demanded access to the Social Security payment ...

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team sought access to the government’s vast payment system, part of its bid to choke off federal ...

A longtime Treasury Department official is leaving his job after a dispute with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has reportedly been seeking access to federal payment ...

A top Treasury career staffer, David A. Lebryk, announced his retirement. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

Musk reportedly sought to access the system responsible for paying Social Security benefits and federal contracts ...

Public opinion about the Department of Government Efficiency, and its leader Elon Musk, is not high, an AP-NORC poll found.