Treasury Claims DOGE Has Only ‘Read Only’ Access

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made private assurances to GOP lawmakers — and in a letter — that Elon Musk’s team had “read-only” access to Treasury’s payment systems, Politico reports.

However, as the Wall Street Journal reports: “The letter didn’t specifically say whether the employees were being given access to the underlying software that runs the payment systems or whether DOGE-affiliated workers could potentially edit computer code.”