On Monday, an IBM team received a contract to manage human resources data for more than 500,000 federal employees an unusual request to submit a “reading only” access to human resources records for all 14 public service employees, according to a source familiar with the contract.
Email was from the regular IBM connection in GSA, the agency that manages federal property. But the request was strange because the agency had “reading and writing” data access.
The request and the questions he raised was an example of doubt and speculation in Washington, where President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are unprecedented to decrease the federal workforce and cut off federal programs surrounded by secret.
The Democrats criticized Musk and the Ministry of Governmental efficiency for their failure to reveal the names of their employees, their standards for the layoffs of some government workers and their logical basis for cutting programs. What government data they receive is still completely known.
As of Wednesday, NBC News confirmed that DOGE officials were active in Medicare and Medicaid service centers, which oversees health care for more than 139 million people; The American Agency for International Development; Old Warrior Affairs Department; And the American Ministry.
A White House spokesman did not answer a question about whether Doug asked for human resources records for 14,000 GSA employees from IBM.
A spokesman for “Dog” fulfills President Trump’s commitment to make the government more responsibility and efficient, and most importantly, to restore the appropriate supervision of the US -gained US taxpayer.
Six hours after the White House NBC News asked to request GSA data, it was withdrawn, according to a source familiar with the contract.
The Republicans have praised Dog. Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, R, said. For journalists this week he is happy with musk. Johnson said: “I think he is making a very important service for people in that he is looking at the details of how to spend taxpayer dollars,” Johnson said. “This was a promise to the campaign made, and we all made, and Elon is a large part of this.”
Doga’s plans in GSA are unclear, but this week’s public building service commissioner wrote an email to the employees they obtained by NBC News to inform the workforce that GSA “will be a largely smaller organization in the future.”
Questions still stand
More than two weeks after Trump signed 660 words Executive order Dogs created, confusion on this topic.
Imposed the matter on the fact that the Doug teams, including the Duwaij team, the human resources employee, and an engineer and a lawyer, begins working in each agency “to start the software updating initiative to improve the quality and efficiency of programs at the government level, the network infrastructure, and information technology.”
In the Ministry of Defense on Thursday, officials did not respond to questions about who is in the DJ team in the Pentagon.
Three federal employees said that the lack of transparency about Dog is in their agencies. Another current employee who deals with Dog’s requests said that the Musk team shouts on the data: “It focuses on data; they want the data.”
Jacqueline Simon, director of policies at the American Federation of Government Employees, said the union, which represents more than 700,000 federal workers, said that workers throughout the federal government have little information about what Dog is doing and who does that.
Simon said: “We have no information about the number of people who have been appointed specifically for a fever,” Simon said.
Musk’s Doge boasted by cutting it in GSA in online posts. On Tuesday, Dog X account Boast In GSA. Last week, a Duj Post did an individual How the rental contracts for government office space were canceled and millions of taxpayers were provided.
“GSA has completed three rental contracts most of them from empty office space, as tenants move to the nearby buildings in the GSA portfolio,” said Post. “With savings of $ 1.6 million, these are the first steps for the correct size of the federal real estate wallet that includes more than 7500 lease contracts.”
The White House statement added: “Those who lead this task with Elon Musk do this in the full compliance of the federal law, the appropriate security resources, and as employees in relevant agencies, and not as external advisers or entities. The continuous operations of DOGE can be considered that they are destroyed by those who They were established in the federal bureaucracy, who resist change.
Sensitive data
Simon, from the American Federation of Government Employees, said she suspects that Doug’s employees have appropriate permits to access sensitive government data.
She said, “It seems impossible for any of the people to undergo security or examine the appropriate background,” she said. “Simply put enough time to make these checks.”
White House spokesperson said concerns about the potential use of social security numbers, birth dates and employees in human resources data that Dog is unnecessary. “They are not there to consider the social security number,” the spokesman said.
The spokesperson refused to say the number of employees who had Dog, but they said that increasing her transparency was a target for the White House.
