Elon Musk speaks Jan. In a letter to the acting education secretary, a group of Democrats seeks to intervene as DOGE gains increasing access to student loan databases and other systems.
Agency for International Development. Democrats including California Rep. The Department of Education has been in turmoil as Trump, a Republican, sets out to abolish it. The White House is considering an executive order that would tell the education secretary to slash the department as far as possible and urge Congress to fully terminate it.
In addition, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The payments system handles trillions of dollars over the course of a year, including tax refunds and Social Security benefits. Also Friday, 19 Democratic attorneys general sued Trump to stop DOGE from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans.
One of them, a department employee, said a DOGE representative requested the access more than a week ago. The database also houses information on the parents of dependent loan applicants, including citizenship status and income information. It says those people trusted the department with their information when they applied for federal loans and grants or filled out the FAFSA student aid form. New York's attorney general said DOGE's access to the data raises security issues and the possibility of an illegal freeze in federal funds.
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