The top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official has been forced out of the agency after he resisted a demand by Elon Musk and his associates at DOGE to gain access to the government’s vast payment system, which disburses trillions of dollars in federal payments each year. Trump’s new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ended up giving Musk access to the system, which includes sensitive information about taxpayers, Social Security recipients and government contractors.

Musk is also accused of waging a takeover at the Office of Personnel Management, where career civil servants have been locked out of computer systems.