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Brian Schwartz

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544 total appearances

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The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

They're just moving around the edges of that saying, USAID will be around. It'll just be under a different form as we probe what's going on here and do a fact-finding mission. And that's how Congress, the Republicans in Congress will be able to kind of shrug and go, they have the authority to do this. They haven't gone any further. So we're not going to step in.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

They're just moving around the edges of that saying, USAID will be around. It'll just be under a different form as we probe what's going on here and do a fact-finding mission. And that's how Congress, the Republicans in Congress will be able to kind of shrug and go, they have the authority to do this. They haven't gone any further. So we're not going to step in.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Musk's team went to Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. They went to him and they said, we have a proposal for you. Here is how we want to gain access to the Treasury payment systems.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Musk's team went to Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. They went to him and they said, we have a proposal for you. Here is how we want to gain access to the Treasury payment systems.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Musk's team went to Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. They went to him and they said, we have a proposal for you. Here is how we want to gain access to the Treasury payment systems.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Long story short, Treasury Secretary Besant said, great, let's do it. And the concept of this proposal, from what we're told, was you will gain access to these payment systems, but only – and this is from the Besant world we're hearing this from –

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Long story short, Treasury Secretary Besant said, great, let's do it. And the concept of this proposal, from what we're told, was you will gain access to these payment systems, but only – and this is from the Besant world we're hearing this from –

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Long story short, Treasury Secretary Besant said, great, let's do it. And the concept of this proposal, from what we're told, was you will gain access to these payment systems, but only – and this is from the Besant world we're hearing this from –

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

on a read-only mode, which means, in theory, they are only allowed to open up the computers at the Treasury Department or anywhere else that is Treasury access and read through the Treasury payment systems and what they say.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

on a read-only mode, which means, in theory, they are only allowed to open up the computers at the Treasury Department or anywhere else that is Treasury access and read through the Treasury payment systems and what they say.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

on a read-only mode, which means, in theory, they are only allowed to open up the computers at the Treasury Department or anywhere else that is Treasury access and read through the Treasury payment systems and what they say.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

That's right. This is a different animal. This is a different set of themes. He wants to have access. His doge, I'll put it this way, wants to have access because they want to be able to monitor what's going on. And then in some thing we're hearing about, they're going to come up with some sort of report to bring a guest to the treasury secretary of what issues they found with the payment system.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

That's right. This is a different animal. This is a different set of themes. He wants to have access. His doge, I'll put it this way, wants to have access because they want to be able to monitor what's going on. And then in some thing we're hearing about, they're going to come up with some sort of report to bring a guest to the treasury secretary of what issues they found with the payment system.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

That's right. This is a different animal. This is a different set of themes. He wants to have access. His doge, I'll put it this way, wants to have access because they want to be able to monitor what's going on. And then in some thing we're hearing about, they're going to come up with some sort of report to bring a guest to the treasury secretary of what issues they found with the payment system.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

We have not heard of ever, there are different presidents around here, one issue with the payment systems ever.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

We have not heard of ever, there are different presidents around here, one issue with the payment systems ever.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

We have not heard of ever, there are different presidents around here, one issue with the payment systems ever.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Democrats on the Hill are going nuts. I mean, they're going bananas. They're saying that Elon Musk is kind of a shadow president.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Democrats on the Hill are going nuts. I mean, they're going bananas. They're saying that Elon Musk is kind of a shadow president.

The Journal.
Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart

Democrats on the Hill are going nuts. I mean, they're going bananas. They're saying that Elon Musk is kind of a shadow president.