DOGE team led by Musk will seek to obtain US Treasury accounting data next week

Odaily News Musk will send a DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) team to Parkersburg, West Virginia, next week, where they will be given read-only access to the U.S. government’s central accounting system, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The planned access, which opens a new window into some of the government’s most sensitive financial data, comes after a federal judge earlier this week limited the DOGE team’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment systems in a lawsuit brought by unions and a retiree group concerned about privacy.
Musk sought direct access to federal data systems as part of his new role as head of DOGE.
The DOGE team will be at the Bureau of Fiscal Services building in Parkersburg from Tuesday to Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Treasury Department's Central Accounting and Reporting System (CARS) is located here, which handles accounting and reporting access for all federal agencies. CARS data is used to build the national balance sheet, but it also processes bank information from various agencies and the Federal Reserve.
But it's a different payment system than the one the DOGE team had accessed before. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a temporary restraining order Thursday saying only two DOGE employees, Tom Krause and Marko Elez, can access the payments, and only in read-only mode. Elez was fired that day for making racist comments, but Musk and Vice President JD Vance said he should be rehired.
The Parkersburg facility also houses what was formerly known as the Bureau of the Public Debt, which calculates the $28.9 trillion national debt daily and provides some back-office functions for other federal agencies. All employees undergo background, credit and security checks, including fingerprinting, every three to five years.
Musk said on Saturday that he had reached an agreement with Treasury officials on a range of issues on how to audit, record and reconcile federal payments with the existing list of entities that make "prohibited payments." He called the actions "very obvious and necessary changes" that will be implemented by existing career government employees. It is unclear how many of the measures Musk requested have been implemented. The U.S. Treasury Department did not immediately confirm the agreement on Saturday. (Fortune)