Staff at the Federal Reserve cooperated with the Treasury Department to give Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to federal payment systems, according to a new court filing.

Affected staff say more than 100 employees working to protect U.S. government networks were ‘axed’ with no prior warning

New court filings indicate that contrary to the Federal Reserve’s claims, agency employees may have met with personnel associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Amid Democratic scrutiny over DOGE’s governmental oversight,

Dudek’s comments, delivered to a group of senior staff and Social Security advocates attending both in person and virtually, offer an extraordinary window into the thinking of a top agency official in the volatile early days of the second Trump administration.

The agency is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) backed off a plan to scrap telephone services for millions of Americans filing claims with the Social Security Administration, just hours after The Washington Post revealed the sweeping changes.

A federal judge on Monday ordered the government-downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk to make public records concerning its operations, which he said had been run in "unusual secrecy.

A federal judge ruled that DOGE, led by Elon Musk, is likely subject to FOIA, noting that the newly formed department had been run in "unusual secrecy."

US District Judge Christopher Cooper said DOGE now has to comply with recent Freedom of Information Act requests from a nonprofit.