Warren urges Department of Education IG to investigate DOGE access to student loan data
Source: abc news
Senator says Americans should know "who's digging through their personal data."
By Arthur Jones II June 9, 2025, 4:12 AM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is requesting the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General review the Department of Government Efficiency's alleged "infiltration" of the agency's internal federal student loan database.
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The internal federal student aid (FSA) systems handle the $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio for more than 40 million borrowers. It's unclear whether DOGE has made any changes to student loan data.
"The Department is refusing to tell Americans who's digging through their personal data and if their data is safe," Warren wrote in a statement to ABC News. "I'm pushing for an independent investigation into what the Department of Education is hiding from us."
The OIG office is the statutory, independent entity within the department responsible for identifying fraud, waste, abuse, and criminal activity involving department funds, programs, and operations, according to its website.
Warren and a group of Democratic senators, including Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Tina Smith, D-Minn., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., accuse the Department of Education of refusing to comply with her monthslong congressional investigation into what, if any, records have been accessed by DOGE employees that could be sensitive.
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Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/warren-urges-department-education-ig-investigate-doge-access/story?id=122556299
I am hoping these Democrats can get this investigation going.
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