PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Following a controversial first few weeks of action, agents from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are expected to visit West Virginia in the coming days amid the agency’s “financial audit” of the U.S. Government.
Sources told nonprofit investigators ProPublica last week that the DOGE team will be dispatched to the U.S. Treasury Department’s building in Parkersburg on Tuesday, with DOGE agents set to gain “read-only” access to the department’s data, including the U.S. Government’s central accounting system.
Parkersburg is home to the U.S. Bureau of Fiscal Services—previously known as Public Debt—which hosts the federal government’s Central Accounting Reporting System (CARS). The U.S. Treasury’s website says that the CARS system serves as “the electronic system of record for the government’s financial data” and handles accounting and reporting for all federal agencies.
Musk was named a “special government employee” when Trump took office and has said he plans to cut $2 trillion in government spending through what he called “mass headcount reductions across the federal bureaucracy.”
Judicial action has also already been taken against Musk and DOGE as U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction on Saturday, blocking their access to Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for American citizens.
DOGE agents are expected to remain in Parkersburg until Thursday.
