{"id":16509,"date":"2025-03-31T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doge-accesses-federal-payroll-system-over-objections-of-career-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:00:09","slug":"doge-accesses-federal-payroll-system-over-objections-of-career-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/doge-accesses-federal-payroll-system-over-objections-of-career-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE Accesses Federal Payroll System Over Objections of Career Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Members of Elon Musk\u2019s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency gained access over the weekend to a payroll system that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across dozens of agencies, according to two people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The move overruled objections from senior IT staff who feared it could compromise highly sensitive government personnel information, including by making it more vulnerable to terrorist cyberattacks, these people said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By accessing the system, which is housed at the Interior Department, the DOGE workers now have visibility into sensitive employee information, such as Social Security numbers, and the ability to more easily hire and fire workers, according to the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared retribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The DOGE workers had tried for about two weeks to obtain administrative access to the program, known as the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2024-08\/ibc-fact-sheets-federal-personnel-payroll-system.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Personnel and Payroll System<\/a>, the two people said. The dispute came to a head on Saturday, as the DOGE workers obtained the access and then placed two of the IT officials who had resisted them on administrative leave and under investigation, the people said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The move follows other efforts by DOGE to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-doge-personal-data.html\" title=\"\">gain entry to federal systems<\/a> and databases, some of which have encountered resistance in the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokeswoman for the Interior Department, Kathryn Martin, said Sunday in a statement, \u201cWe are working to execute the President\u2019s directive to cut costs and make the government more efficient for the American people and have taken actions to implement President Trump\u2019s Executive Orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokeswoman for the White House did not comment Sunday night in response to an emailed question from the Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview with Fox News last week, Mr. Musk defended his team\u2019s efforts to gain access to government and personnel information, saying that it was part of a broader effort at \u201creconciling all of the government databases to eliminate the waste and fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added, \u201cThese databases don\u2019t talk to each other. And that\u2019s really the source of, that\u2019s the biggest vulnerability for fraud, is the fact that these databases don\u2019t talk to each other. So we need to reconcile the databases. It\u2019s a, frankly, painful homework, but it has to be done, and will greatly improve the efficiency of the government systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Interior Department is one of a handful of large agencies, including the Pentagon and the Agriculture Department, that house payroll hubs through which flow the salaries of thousands of federal workers at dozens of other agencies. The Interior Department hub processes payrolls for the Justice, Treasury and Homeland Security departments, as well as the Air Force, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among other federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was not clear Sunday if DOGE has sought or gained access to payroll systems housed at other large agencies that cover some 2 million additional federal workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Interior, the two people said, at least two DOGE employees, Stephanie Holmes and Katrine Trampe, sought and eventually were granted high-level administrative access to the payroll system, allowing them to make changes to employment status, compensation level, health benefits and more \u2014 with no additional oversight or approval required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Late last week, as Ms. Holmes and Ms. Trampe pushed for the access, senior career employees at the Interior Department wrote a memo describing the irregularity of their request and the risks associated with granting it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSuch elevated access to critical high-value asset systems is rare with respect to individual systems and no single DoI official presently has access to all HR, payroll and credentialing systems,\u201d said the memo, which was viewed by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gaining the elevated administrative access to the system would allow the people to view highly sensitive personal information that is subject to controls under the Privacy Act, the violation of which may carry criminal penalties, the memo warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It also warned that individuals with the elevated access to the system could become prime targets for cybersecurity attacks by terrorists, nations or other malicious actors. The memo also warned that administrative access to the system \u201ctypically requires training and certification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWithout formal qualifications, the Department may experience significant failure because of operator error,\u201d the memo warns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, the federal employees asked the DOGE workers to give the memo to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for his signature, thus taking on the legal responsibility for those risks, the two people said. Mr. Burgum never signed the memo. Tyler Hassan, a former DOGE employee who was recently named as the Interior Department\u2019s acting assistant secretary of policy, management and budget, then placed the agency\u2019s chief information officer, and chief information security officer on administrative leave, and placed them under investigation for their \u201cworkplace behavior,\u201d the two people said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, Interior Department officials gave Ms. Holmes and Ms. Trampe the access they sought, the two people said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Maggie Haberman<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     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