Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with Bloomberg today and corrected a bunch of misinformation being pushed by Democrats and the media about DOGE and their access to Treasury systems.

To start with, he pointed out that this DOGE team working with Treasury are actually two Treasury employees, one of whom he interviewed. He also said, in response to the question, that there is no ‘tinkering’ with the Treasury system because they only have read-only access.

To further nail down this point, Bessent reveals that not even Treasury has the ability to ‘tinker’ with the system because that is all done at the Federal Reserve. Bessent said he doesn’t have the ability to grant the DOGE team access to change anything because, again, that power lies at the Federal Reserve.

Bessent adds that what the DOGE team is doing is simply am operational program to suggest improvements.

When asked about Musk’s comments today saying Treasury needs to stop making certain payments, and if Treasury employees have blocked any payments, Bessent said no they haven’t and then made clear that he and Elon and completely aligned on this audit:

“Just to put it in perspective, Elon and I are completely aligned in terms of cutting waste and increasing accountability and transparency for the American people. I believe that this DOGE program, in my adult life is one of the most important audits of government, or changes to government structure we have seen.”

Bessent pointed out that despite efforts in the past to make changes, nothing ever happens. But things are going to change now and he blasted the media for trying to ‘lampoon’ what DOGE is doing:

“President Trump came in, there’s a big agenda and I think that there are gigantic cost savings for the American people here. I think it’s unfortunate the way the media wants to lampoon what is going on. These are highly trained professionals. This is not some roving band going around doing things. This is methodical and it is going to yield big savings.”

This should quiet the Democrat and media naysayers, but it won’t. They are only interested in trying to stop Trump and creating some kind of phony attack narrative in order to do so. But it ain’t gonna work.