Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk's Requests on Payments

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The system is run out of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a little-known but critical office that is responsible for getting money to Social Security recipients, government employees, contractors and others.
51% : The decision by Mr. Musk's efficiency team to integrate into the federal government, rather than set up an outside body, has been driven by its view that burrowing into the existing U.S. Digital Service will give it greater visibility into federal spending.
49% : The Trump administration pushed out a top Treasury Department official this week after he refused to give Elon Musk's cost-cutting team access to the government's vast payment system, part of a bid by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to choke off federal funding.
45% : "The American people should not have to worry about political interference when it comes to receiving Social Security and other payments the fiscal service makes.
44% : " Mr. Akis has made similar inquiries at the I.R.S. about its information technology as part of an effort to automate tax collection, according to people familiar with the matter.
43% : The White House and a representative of Mr. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency did not return requests for comment.
40% : Mr. Musk has been fixated on the Treasury system as a key to cutting federal spending.

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