Protect sensitive payment systems from non-Treasury outsiders

Officials affiliated with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficien cy” have been asking since after the election for access to the Treasury payment systems. Appropriately, only a small number of career GOVERNMENT officials control the Treasury’s payment systems, which control the flow of more than $6 . trillion annually to households, businesses and more nationwide Tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people across the country rely on the systems, which are responsible for distributing Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to government contractors and grant recipients and tax refunds, among tens of thousands of other functions. ral payments system — The possibility that government officials might try to use the fede which essentially functions as the nation’s “checking book” — to en act a political agenda is unprecedented and terrifying. It is another attempt to not only bypass Congressional budget authority, but to commandeer the Treasury itself. Such access would be used to EXTORT at every level. STOP THIS IN ITS TRACKS!