Giving Elon Musk’s DOGE access to the Treasury payment system risks a U.S. debt default and global financial crisis, senator warns
The Treasury Department’s payment system has been likened to the government’s checkbook and makes $6 trillion in ...
US Treasury chief takes over consumer watchdog, freezes all activity
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday tapped newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as acting director of the ...
Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of ...
Trump appoints the Treasury secretary, a former hedge fund executive, as acting head of consumer protection agency
In what appears to be yet another move to consolidate parts of the federal government, President Donald Trump has appointed ...
How an arcane Treasury Department office became ground zero in the war over federal spending
A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to ...
Elon Musk US financial data grab a ‘coup,’ Heather Cox Richardson says
Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson characterized Elon Musk's actions over the weekend as "the largest ...
Elon Musk targets closure of US humanitarian aid agency
The Trump administration on Monday locked U.S. Agency for International Development workers out of their headquarters in ...
Republicans Take Key Step To Abolish The Department Of Education, Imperiling Student Loan Programs
Republican lawmakers took a key step last week to officially abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Here's what student ...
Warren blasts Treasury Secretary Bessent on Elon Musk weekend data grab
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren demanded answers following reports that billionaire Elon Musk took access to the nation's finance ...