{"id":33373,"date":"2025-02-14T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/us-watchdog-to-investigate-musk-doge-teams-access-to-payment-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:11:15","slug":"us-watchdog-to-investigate-musk-doge-teams-access-to-payment-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/us-watchdog-to-investigate-musk-doge-teams-access-to-payment-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"US watchdog to investigate Musk \u2018Doge\u2019 team\u2019s access to payment systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury inspector general to launch audit as judge mulls whether access to sensitive data was unconstitutional<\/p>\n<p>A government watchdog is to launch an inquiry into security over the US treasury\u2019s payments system as a judge on Friday considered whether Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) access to the highly sensitive data base was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Amid mounting court cases concerning Doge\u2019s activities, the treasury department\u2019s inspector general said it would launch an audit over after Democrats complained about the access gained to a 25-year-old Musk associate, Marko Elez, who was briefly granted edit access within the system, meaning he had the potential to change entries. The access was later rescinded by an interim court ruling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/14\/musk-doge-payment-system-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury inspector general to launch audit as judge mulls whether access to sensitive data was unconstitutional A government watchdog is to launch an inquiry into security over the US treasury\u2019s payments system as a judge on Friday considered whether Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) access to the highly sensitive data base was unconstitutional. &#8230; <a title=\"US watchdog to investigate Musk \u2018Doge\u2019 team\u2019s access to payment systems\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/us-watchdog-to-investigate-musk-doge-teams-access-to-payment-systems\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US watchdog to investigate Musk \u2018Doge\u2019 team\u2019s access to payment systems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}