Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry
Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having ...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Appointed as Acting CFPB Director
On January 31, 2025, the CFPB announced President Donald Trump had appointed Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the CFPB. In ...
Post from suspended X account falsely attributed to Treasury secretary | Fact check
There is no evidence Bessent made the X post attributed to him. The account shown has been suspended, and no credible news reports support the claim.
Bessent Says Musk’s DOGE Isn’t Altering Treasury Data
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he personally vetted a senior Treasury employee on Elon Musk’s government efficiency team who has read-only access to federal payment data, and that there’s ...
Treasury agrees to interim ban on Elon Musk's DOGE accessing the financial data of millions of Americans
Elon Musk has no access to the Treasury's tax and Social Security data, a government lawyer said. Treasury agreed to keep it ...
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Federal judge partially blocks DOGE’s access to Treasury financial systems
The union groups alleged that the newly confirmed Bessent provided DOGE workers with “full access” to the Bureau of Fiscal Service’s “data and the computer systems that house them,” after he put a ...
Bessent says DOGE isn't tinkering with IRS, Treasury payment system - report
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency isn't "tinkering" with the Internal Revenue System or the Treasury Department's payment system, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday. He ...
‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Trump and Musk’s DOGE committing ‘massive and unprecedented’ intrusion of taxpayers’ privacy, lawsuit says
The Treasury Department is breaking multiple federal laws by allowing Elon Musk and DOGE to access taxpayers' private data, a ...
Trump, at least for now, has not terminated Direct File, the free IRS tax filing system
In early February 2025, claims emerged that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk, had terminated, ...
Did DOGE really ‘delete’ the tech division that helped create the IRS Direct File free tax filing service?
Elon Musk, head of the chaos-causing Department of Government Efficiency, made an assertion this week that raised questions in some people’s minds about the status of the IRS Direct File program. That ...
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TREASURY DEPT. SUED FOR GIVING MUSK ACCESS TO CONSUMERS’ PRIVATE DATA, INCLUDING BANK ACCOUNTS AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
The lawsuit seeks a temporary and permanent injunction to halt DOGE’s access to the Treasury system, though according to Senator Ron Wyden, ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, DOGE’s ...