The Inspector General of the Treasury will investigate access to DOGE payments

Two government guard dogs will investigate the access to the Ministry of Efficiency to the Sensitive Treasury Payment Systems, they confirmed in letters to the Congress.

In a Letter to the Democrats of the SenateInspector Deputy General of the Treasury, Loren Sciurba, said that the office had opened an audit on the payment systems of the Bureau of Tax Service on February 6. The IG office will examine if adequate checks were in place to grant access to the system and to ensure that only legally solid payments are disbursed. The office system is that to which a member of the Doge staff had access to the possibility of reading and writing code, Cable reportedAlthough Trump officials have denied that he could change the system. Treasury payment systems manage the flow of more than 5 billions of dollars in payments for services such as social security services and veterans.

The IG office expects the audit to be completed in August, but promised to give “temporary updates” if they discover the “critical problems” before that. “”[W]He recognizes the danger that access or inadequate controls can represent the integrity of sensitive payment systems, ”writes Sciurba. A Letter from Government Accountability Office (GAO) Confirms as well as the Congress Congress Dog will investigate and coordinate with the IG office.

Sense. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ron Wyden (D-OU) shared the letters, who answered their requests So that the offices put independent probes on DOGE access to cash systems. They asked investigators to determine what information from DOGE staff had accessed, if they had appropriate clearances to do so, and if railings have been put in place to prevent conflicts of interest or the Personal gains for the companies of Doge Head Elon Musk. Warren found the Previous response from the Treasury Department To his investigation into the access of the Treasury Department’s payment system to raise “more questions than answers”, which pushed him as well as colleagues to turn to independent childcare dogs.

Towards the start of his mandate, President Donald Trump has ousted more than a dozen general inspectors of the agencies, despite the federal law requiring 30 -day notice to the Congress to reject the investigators confirmed by the Senate. The IG of the Treasury Department was one of these Trumps sought to oust, The Washington Post reportsBut as Sciurba is a career official who heads the office after the acting inspector general retired in December, he could not be completely expelled. While the president has the power to appoint and delete the IG, which are supervised by agency chiefsThey cannot be prevented from auditing this agency, and have also given a report on the congress.