The world's richest man could have access to sensitive information about tens of millions of student loan borrowers. The post Warren, Markey join Senate Dems. to demand answers about Musk’s Education Dept.

Days after his swearing-in, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Elon Musk and his team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the agency’s federal payments system, which essentially operates as the country’s central bank account.

In a letter released on Thursday, a coalition of 15 Democrats asked the department to explain what data associates of Elon Musk’s had scraped from the agency’s servers.