🚨 DOGE Got FULL Access To Your Social Security Number — "By Accident," Says Treasury
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2026年07月06日
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DelBene Asks Bessent ONE Question — "Do You Take Responsibility?" — His Answer Was "What Does Accidentally Mean?"
One GAO report. One word. One Treasury Secretary who wouldn't say yes.
In the House Budget and Ways Committee, Representative Suzan DelBene held up a Government Accountability Office audit report and confronted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: on January 31, 2025, he personally granted DOGE access to the Treasury's Financial Management Service — a payment system holding the Social Security numbers and bank account information of millions of Americans.
The GAO's finding: a DOGE employee was "accidentally" given full authority to create, modify, and delete that data.
💣 THE MOMENT THAT DEFINED THE HEARING:
DelBene: "Do you take responsibility for this? What concrete steps have you taken to protect the data of the affected individuals?"
Bessent: "What exactly do you mean by 'accidentally' — would you like to look it up?"
DelBene: "You are the one responsible."
🔴 THE EVASIONS THAT FOLLOWED:
✓ Bessent tried to redirect to USAID: "Why are you bringing this to me? USAID has nothing to do with us." DelBene's reply: "But the payment information has nothing to do with this?"
✓ Bessent claimed it was "only read access" — directly contradicting the GAO's own finding of create/modify/delete permissions
✓ When asked what concrete steps were taken: "Just like we did at the IRS, we tightened all system protocols." DelBene: "I guess that's not very specific."
✓ This wasn't the first time — DelBene has pressed Bessent on DOGE's IRS data access in prior hearings, with the same pattern of deflection each time
🚨 THE BROADER PICTURE:
DOGE's access wasn't limited to Treasury — similar sensitive-data access requests surfaced at the Social Security Administration, the IRS, and other federal agencies, each raising the same concerns: unclear oversight, undefined authority limits, no accountability trail.
Separately, Bessent's own name appeared on a leaked list of 222 people registered for a private August 2026 retreat matching platform that collected highly sensitive personal data — an ironic footnote to a hearing about data security.
Millions of Americans' financial records. One word — "accidentally." And a Treasury Secretary who asked for a dictionary instead of an answer.
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DelBene Asks Bessent ONE Question — "Do You Take Responsibility?" — His Answer Was "What Does Accidentally Mean?"
One GAO report. One word. One Treasury Secretary who wouldn't say yes.
In the House Budget and Ways Committee, Representative Suzan DelBene held up a Government Accountability Office audit report and confronted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: on January 31, 2025, he personally granted DOGE access to the Treasury's Financial Management Service — a payment system holding the Social Security numbers and bank account information of millions of Americans.
The GAO's finding: a DOGE employee was "accidentally" given full authority to create, modify, and delete that data.
💣 THE MOMENT THAT DEFINED THE HEARING:
DelBene: "Do you take responsibility for this? What concrete steps have you taken to protect the data of the affected individuals?"
Bessent: "What exactly do you mean by 'accidentally' — would you like to look it up?"
DelBene: "You are the one responsible."
🔴 THE EVASIONS THAT FOLLOWED:
✓ Bessent tried to redirect to USAID: "Why are you bringing this to me? USAID has nothing to do with us." DelBene's reply: "But the payment information has nothing to do with this?"
✓ Bessent claimed it was "only read access" — directly contradicting the GAO's own finding of create/modify/delete permissions
✓ When asked what concrete steps were taken: "Just like we did at the IRS, we tightened all system protocols." DelBene: "I guess that's not very specific."
✓ This wasn't the first time — DelBene has pressed Bessent on DOGE's IRS data access in prior hearings, with the same pattern of deflection each time
🚨 THE BROADER PICTURE:
DOGE's access wasn't limited to Treasury — similar sensitive-data access requests surfaced at the Social Security Administration, the IRS, and other federal agencies, each raising the same concerns: unclear oversight, undefined authority limits, no accountability trail.
Separately, Bessent's own name appeared on a leaked list of 222 people registered for a private August 2026 retreat matching platform that collected highly sensitive personal data — an ironic footnote to a hearing about data security.
Millions of Americans' financial records. One word — "accidentally." And a Treasury Secretary who asked for a dictionary instead of an answer.
👇 Drop a comment below. "What does accidentally mean" — the most evasive answer you've heard in a hearing?
👍 Like, Comment, and Subscribe for complete congressional hearing coverage
🔔 Turn on notifications for House Budget Committee hearings and data privacy oversight
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