Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team sought access to the government’s vast payment system, part of its bid to choke off federal funding.

The Trump administration pushed out a top Treasury Department official this week after he refused to give Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team access to the government’s vast payment system, part of a bid by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to choke off federal funding.