During a news conference Friday, President Trump said that Americans’ social security would remain undisturbed by DOGE. “Social Security will not be touched, it will only be strengthened,” he said.

If the wrong person gained access to personal financial information held by the U.S. Treasury, it would constitute the biggest data breach in history.

Elon Musk, an unelected Donald Trump ally who spent an estimated $288 million to get the U.S. president elected, has been granted a level of access into the U.S. government's federal payment system that is unprecedented for a private citizen,