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Liberia Rescue Revenue and Expenditure Model (LRREM): A Proposal for Strengthening Fiscal Management and National Development
Background Liberia, the first independent African Republic (1847), played a crucial role in the continent’s decolonization process. Despite its historical significance, the country remains one of the ...
Treasury audit targets DOGE's access to federal payment systems
The Treasury's Inspector General launches an audit on federal payment system security after concerns over Elon Musk's DOGE access ...
Business Insider9d
The Treasury's payment system is one of Elon Musk's targets. Here's what it does, from Social Security to tax refunds.
"Treasury has no higher obligation than managing the government's finances on behalf of the American people, and its payments system is critical to that process," the letter said. What the ...
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Order blocking Musk's DOGE from Treasury systems doesn't apply to Bessent, judge says
NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge clarified on Tuesday that an order restricting billionaire Elon Musk's government cost-cutting effort from accessing the Treasury Department's payment ...
The New York Times3d
A Musk ally was accidentally given broad access to sensitive Treasury data.
They also describe a new process Treasury created to monitor and help stop payments that the Trump administration is trying to block. Representatives from Mr. Musk’s so-called Department of ...
CNN15d
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 ... “each step in the disbursement process.” They also wanted to ...
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Musk staffer 'mistakenly' given ability to edit Treasury Department payment system, legal filings say
Treasury Department officials said the "error" was quickly corrected. A 25-year-old associate of Elon Musk and former Treasury Department employee was "mistakenly" given the ability to make ...
The Washington Post8d
DOGE deputy to oversee powerful Treasury system as Musk demands cuts
The Treasury Department is appointing an ally of billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service to a senior position in the department overseeing the nation’s powerful payment systems, according to ...
The New York Times7d
Musk Team’s Treasury Access Raises Security Fears, Despite Judge’s Ordered Halt
Feb. 8, 2025 A federal judge’s order that Elon Musk’s team temporarily cease boring into the Treasury Department’s payment systems raises a far larger question: whether what Elon Musk has ...
Fox News4d
Trump admin files motion to vacate restraining order prohibiting DOGE access to Treasury payment systems
In the motion, Cloud Software Group, Inc. CEO Tom Krause argued that "it is important that high-level political appointees, such as the Treasury Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Chief of Staff ...
The Hill5d
Trump directs Treasury to stop making pennies
President Trump announced Sunday that he asked the Treasury Department to stop producing pennies, calling the 1-cent coin wasteful. He said in a Truth Social post that he told Treasury Secretary ...
New York Post24d
Treasury nominee Scott Bessent clears key Senate hurdle on way to likely confirmation
Treasury Secretary designee Scott Bessent’s nomination advanced past a key Senate committee Tuesday, teeing up his likely confirmation with a full floor vote in the coming days. The Senate ...