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Proudly serving IL-06. Dad, husband, former clean energy entrepreneur. Climate nerd, gun safety & consumer advocate. Member of the House Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
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Sec. Bessent only reinforced my belief that Elon Musk was given unfettered access to sensitive taxpayer information.
If any Republicans in Congress care about protecting their constituents' private information, they’ll join my efforts to stop Musk. /fin
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The Trump Administration admitted in court that Elez had been given write access to the payment system. 8/
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Sec. Bessent claimed that he had never granted Marko Elez, a Musk loyalist known for his racist views, the ability to edit sensitive taxpayer data within Treasury’s payment systems. 7/
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Here’s the New York Times on what the Treasury payments system does.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Sec. Bessent also denied that the Treasury payment systems are responsible for $5 trillion in disbursements and described the job of managing those payments as a “tech upgrade”. 5/
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Lebryk was replaced by Tom Krause, an unqualified software executive with no relevant experience in government operations or financial markets.
Sec. Bessent admitted Krause replaced Lebryk, but bizarrely denied the scope of the job of Assistant Fiscal Secretary. 4/
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The New York Times reported that, after David Lebryk and Sec. Bessent met, and Lebryk was indeed placed on administrative leave. 3/
Source: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
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I asked Sec. Bessent why David Lebryk, a career civil servant who rebuffed Musk when asked to hand over the keys to taxpayer data, was forced to resign.
Sec. Bessent denied that Lebryk was placed on administrative leave shortly after they met with each other. 2/