Dream. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Questions of the Secretary of Defense Pete HegeSth during his Senate of the Armed Service Committee at the Capitol trial at Capitol on January 14, 2025 in Washington (photo of Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Washington – Senate Democrats from the USA are fed up with the response of the education department to their investigation in the matter of reports that the US Doge service Elona Musk “has accessed to millions of personal data lenders.
Dream. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts led 14 other senators On Wednesday, calling for the Denise Carter secretary to offer more information by 5 March on access to data by employees and entities of Associated Doge.
The letter came after Federal judge at the beginning of this week He was temporarily blocked by the Education Department and the Personnel Management Office before providing the “personal information”.
A group of trade unions, membership organizations and several American military veterans filed a lawsuit at the beginning of February regarding the fear that both entities and the Treasury Department gave dog access to systems with confidential and private data, in violation of the Privacy Act.
The Department of the Government – which is not a actual department – means a solemn attempt by President Donald Trump and his administration to drastically reduce the expenditure of the federal government.
Initial letter
Warren and a handful of democratic colleagues initially He wrote to Carter on February 7 over Press reports This dog “infiltrated” the education department, and Doge employees received “access to federal student loans”.
They asked for it Carter write down And answer whether Musk and his team have access to these sensitive data systems and what were the security to ensure the improper operate of federal data from student loans.
IN One -page answerThe department wrote that “it has solid protection to ensure data security, and we are not involved in any actions that would reveal data using unauthorized or unlawful measures.”
“Protection of confidential data of the student loan and information of the Borrower is of great importance for the department,” a letter was noted.
“Inadequate” answer
But the senators said on Wednesday that the response of the Education Department was “miserably inadequate, could contain misleading information and raise new concerns about the nature and scope of dog access to internal department (education) systems.”
Senators added that the Education Department “did not answer the basic questions about Doge personal access to personal data lenders.”
Democrats have found that the “evasive reaction” of the Education Department, and the ephemeral block of federal judge to Doge data, “increases our fears about whether (education department) could violate the law or procedures of the federal government in the field of handling this data.”
The leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer from New York also signed a Wednesday letter along with California Alex Padilla; Richard Blimenthal from Connecticut; Mazie Hirono from Hawaii; Dick Durbin Illinois; Maryland Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen; Ed Markey from Massachusetts; Tina Smith’s Minnesota; Cory Booker from New Jersey; Ben Ray Luján from Nowy Mexico; Ron Publisne and Jeff Merkley from Oregon; And Peter Welch from Vermont.
