The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls Social Security payments,

The Department of Government Efficiency's alleged access to the Treasury's payment systems has sparked a lawsuit from federal workers' unions.

If Elon Musk or his DOGE team were to attempt to block federal payments, it would likely face legal challenges given the money is approved by Congress.

But this morning, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., released a letter he wrote to Musk declaring that his office would “pursue any and all legal action against anyone” who tried to impede DOGE’s work.

Musk suggested on his social-media platform X that he wanted to close down the agency entirely—and USAID’s X profile was taken down. Here’s what to know about USAID: What is

Musk has been granted power by the president to reduce the size of the federal government - but is he silently taking over?