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Lawmakers press Treasury secretary on private access to Treasury and CFPB systems
Summary
Ranking Member Waters and other Democrats accused Treasury of granting private persons access to Treasury and CFPB systems; Secretary Scott Bissett said employees were given "read only" access and disputed some press accounts about staffing changes.
Representative Maxine Waters, the committee's ranking member, used her opening statement to press Secretary Scott Bissett on a series of allegations about private access to Treasury and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau systems. Waters said outside individuals linked to an investor group had been given access to government payment and consumer data, at one point asking, "You still threw up the gates of our finance system open to Elon Musk and…
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