Jacob Leibenluft

2 months ago | lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Wendy Edelberg |Jacob Leibenluft |Jen Patja

Before January, most Americans had probably never heard of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), a Treasury Department agency that distributes payments from the federal government. But over the last month, this corner of government has appeared again and again in the headlines, as aides working with Elon Musk’s quasi-governmental DOGE initiative successfully gained access to BFS’s payment systems.