The Treasury

Unions sue to block Musk team’s access to Treasury payments

Federal employee unions on Monday sued to stop Elon Musk’s team from accessing a sensitive government system that controls the flow of trillions of dollars of payments as top Democrats stepped up their attacks on what they said was the billionaire’s “hostile takeover” of the Treasury Department.

The lawsuit, which was filed days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent agreed to a plan giving department officials allied with Musk access to the system, landed amid growing pushback to the Tesla founder’s slash and burn efforts to cut hundreds of billions in federal spending ...

It makes me feel sick to see Elon Musk acting as though we elected him dictator of America, just because he bought Trump. Is there even any way to stop him? If the Courts are our only hope, what happens when Trump appeals to the Supreme Court on every case, the same Court that made him invulnerable to every charge of crimes committed while he's president?