Noem defends Musk’s access to DHS data

Musk’s Department of Government Performance has begun its investigations into the federal government with some challenges. Another U.S. district judge upheld DOGE’s right to access the U.S. Treasury while a lawsuit attempting to stop Expand from accessing the Labor Department’s data was dismissed.

” We’re working&nbsp, with]Musk and his team ] at the president ‘s&nbsp, direction to find what we can do &nbsp, to make our department much more&nbsp, efficient. But, I think it ‘s&nbsp, essential”, Noem said on CNN News’s State of the Union. ” This is essentially&nbsp, an assessment of the federal&nbsp, state, which is&nbsp, very strong and needs to happen”.

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” I&nbsp, remember a time when Republicans&nbsp, were extremely careful about and&nbsp, worried about the government, &nbsp, specially appointed people, having access to private data”, host Dana Bash said.

” But Elon Musk is component of&nbsp, the leadership that is&nbsp, helping us determine where we can&nbsp, get discounts and what we can do. &nbsp, And he has gone through the&nbsp, methods to make sure that he&nbsp, has the power the senator &nbsp, has granted him”, Noem said. ” His details that&nbsp, he has is looking at plans, &nbsp, never focusing on specific data&nbsp, and information”.

” No focusing on it, but he has access to it”? Bash asked.

” You&nbsp, know, we’ll be continuing to&nbsp, talk to him about what all he&nbsp, has access to”, Noem said. However, this assessment is necessary to ensure that these programs are being run in a manner that adds dignity.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which frequently includes private information from natural disaster survivors, is a notable area of DHS. FEMA&nbsp, was under fire later last year for its lack of funding, which didn’t last through the end of the season that usually ends around Nov. 30, &nbsp, according to&nbsp, Noem’s father Alejandro Mayorkas. &nbsp, However, the agency&nbsp, reported&nbsp, there were half as many tragedies in 2023 than in 2016.

In the ongoing decision to finance the government in September of last year, Congress did not choose to allocate$ 10 billion toward healthy disasters.