Five former U.S. Treasury secretaries have warned that Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency may pose a threat to democracy, with efforts being made to “unlawfully undermine the nation’s financial commitments.”
Robert E. Rubin, Lawrence H. Summers, Timothy F. Geithner, Jacob J. Lew, and Janet L. Yellen said they had taken the “extraordinary step” of writing the New York Times op-ed due to concern over the “arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments.”
