Elon Musk’s Department of Government Executive Team has received “Administrator” email accounts in the Department of Education, as President Donald Trump has announced that the billionaire will be investigating closely with the agency soon.
The rapid deployment of Musk’s assistants in several agencies has raised concerns from federal officials, lawmakers and watchdog groups that their team has accessed sensitive information and is leading to cleaning government workers.
When NBC News asked Trump at the White House press conference on Friday, Trump asked allegations that a massive staff of Musk and Dodge could be illegal, Trump defended the view that the department said The list of education goals is higher. Trump said, “They will soon be looking at education.
NBC News confirmed that Akash Buba and Ethan Shotran, both at the age of 22, have been identified. Member of the DOGGet the level of administrator in the department’s email system, which can allow them to access sensitive information. At that time, two sources working in the department also said that the shooters had access to the previous end of the EDGOV website on Friday.
Three employees of the department emphasized that it is unusual for anyone to get EDGOV emails for any other government agency. The Department of Education did not respond to the commentary requests on Friday.
The tension in the Department of Education is high, where the leadership announced earlier this week that the staff which is presented to most of the Federal Work Force take the post -resignation package if the government failed to maintain the offer. So they will forgive their right to prosecute. The employee union urged them not to take the deal, worried that it was “very similar to the Twitter situation” during the occupation of Musk, in which employees did not expect them to expect them. Do
A longtime employee in the Department of Education who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal sentiment, which said the agency’s career staff was spreading a quick and deep anxiety as the Dodge looks at them. –
The man said he was particularly concerned that Musk and his team were the national students’ loan database to target Americans, to target career employees and to collect federal loans on federal loans. Will use information from.
New York Times Reported Now 16 members of the Dage team are listed in the Directory of Education, and According to The Washington Post, they have fed sensitive personal and financial data from the department into artificial intelligence software.
On Friday morning, a group of House Democrats tried to enter the headquarters of the Department of Education to meet Acting Secretary Dennis Carter after 95 was signed. A letter Expressing concern about the administration’s administration plans to try to close the department. Representatives were stopped by security and denied admission, which spread a scene of chaos when lawmakers demanded enter.
“They are preventing Congress members from entering the Education Department! Elon is allowed and not people? Illegal,” Representative Maxwell Frost, D. Posted On X, was previously known as Twitter.
On Friday, too, Watch Dog Group Public Citizens Case filed The University of California Student Association has called for a stay order to prevent the department, a group of representatives of the government, in which the DOGE staff has been sought to prevent access to “sensitive personal and financial information”. The suit refers to Reporting The people associated with it gained access to the internal systems of the department, which contained federal students’ aid information.
The suit states that “the scale of the confidentiality of individuals is very and unprecedented.” “The personal data of more than 42 million people is alive in these systems.”
Including Badmal this week, a new memo that entered the department demanded a clear review of all grants that promoted “diversity, equity and participation” or participate in. Give According to a memo obtained by NBC News, it says, its purpose, “discrimination – in the form of DEI – which is a violation of the law or the department’s policy purposes.”
It is not uncommon for a new administration to set priorities on how billions of dollars grant are eliminated. A former senior education official said that what is unusual, and a turean of legal challenges, is the ability to reopen the already awarded grant. In addition to the legal losses, the official said sudden cancellation could create a major obstacle to the parties that are relying on the money. For more resources like teachers and tutors. The long -time federal grant has also provided financial support to magnet schools, if Schools demonstrate That they have separate plans in the place.
Now, department officials say they are not yet clear how the administration is interpreting the DEI – whether it involves services for disabled students, for example, or other language. English learners.
“I don’t know how you eliminate DEI without attacking special needs programs,” said a current administration official.
The Department of Education spokesman, Madison Bidarman, said that to review it is to ensure that the grant programs are in compliance with the laws of civil rights, “which is, they are not supported by discrimination based on race, national origin or other safe features. Have you been doing. “
“The department manages important programs of the grant that the Congress has set up to help schools, serving specific populations, and will be cautious in the review to ensure that the grant is a specific population. The management’s priorities during the service are in accordance with the priorities. “
The speeding clip of changes has pushed the certification process to lead the department.
Trump’s nominee, Linda McMemon, for Secretary Education, are going to appear with confirmation Listening Before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee on February 13. Former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Mac Memon, currently a 4 -year -old Trump -affiliated think tank, is the chairperson of the United States First Policy Institute. Already have four high officials Definite He worked for a think tank in the education department.
A military veteran, a current education department official, described a scene of confusion and misconduct as Trump and Musk. Others are digging into their heels because they feel like they are being bullying.
“There are people who are afraid. There are people who are eligible for retirement and still say, ‘I’m not going anywhere. I will not voluntarily accept pressure and threats. ‘It’s all really.
Since the inauguration of Trump, the department has already shown a significant change in priorities.
Earlier this week, this Announced plans To violate the administration’s executive order to ban the participation of transgender women in sports to launch the title IX investigation in two universities and a athletic association, and the same girl’s bathroom gender non Inquiry began in Denver Public Schools to change biased. The department said that would happen Return towards enforcement IX Title IX Rules during the first Trump administration rather than the rules of the Biden era. And he canceled 11 investigations into the ban on the book in school districts. Due to the complaints That schools targeted titles by LGBTQ authors and colorful people – and Complaints are called “fraud”.
The department staff has also received a instruction this week to ensure that their email signature blocks are not included in “external information, including gender -identifying conscience, stimulating prices, and GIFS.” The email was marked “high importance”.
