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The Economist
The Economist
13 Feb 2025


NextImg:Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury
United States | America’s payment system

Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury

But court filings reveal quite how deep DOGE got

|WASHINGTON DC

As admissions go, it was an uncomfortable one. In one of several affidavits filed on the night of February 11th, Joseph Gioeli, a Treasury official in charge of technology at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, said that Marko Elez, a former Twitter engineer associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (doge) had in fact had the ability to write code into the bureau’s sensitive payment systems. Mr Elez’s computer, Mr Gioeli testified, had “mistakenly been configured with read/write permissions” on one system. This came after officials insisted to Congress and to journalists that doge’s access was “read only.”

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Bureau of worry”

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