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Musk’s Brazen DOGE Tactics Irk GOP Senators, Treasury Staff
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2:04Now PlayingWhen Elon Musk and his team of young deputies gained access to the Treasury Department computer network that the US government uses to pay its bills, and where private financial data of nearly every American is stored, it caused alarm across the country.
It also seemed to put Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the middle of a delicate standoff between bureaucrats at the agency he is charged with leading and President Donald Trump’s loudest adviser.
With Trump’s blessing, Musk, the world’s richest man and chief executive of automaker Tesla Inc., has been leading a tornadic campaign to remake the federal bureaucracy that some critics have called illegal.
Wendy Schiller, professor of political science at Brown University, examines how public sentiment could impact the president's willingness to allow Musk to continue with his cost-cutting mandate. Professor Schiller speaks with Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney on Bloomberg Radio.
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