The acting inspector -general of the Office or Staff Management confirmed that the independent office is investigating whether any “emerging threats” for sensitive information arose as a result of the Doge operations of Elon Musk that instituted rapid changes to protected government networks.

‘The Opm Oig [office of the inspector general] is committed to providing independent and objective supervision of the programs and operations of OPM, ”writes acting inspector general Norbert Vint in a letter of March 7 to Democratic Lawmakers, adding that his office is not only legally needed to investigate OPM’s safety protocols, but that it is regularly based on” developing risks. ” issued last month, would fold in its ‘existing job’, while also starting a ‘new involvement’ on possible risks from the agency associated with computer systems obtained or amended by the US Doge service.

Vint, whose predecessor was fired by Trump in January, is one of half a dozen Deputy Inspectors General who encouraged Democrats by the Democrats last month in the House Committee for Supervision and Government Reform to investigate reports of Wired and other outlets on DOGE’s efforts to access a wide range of record systems. including, including staff files on millions of employees and their families.

“We are very concerned that unauthorized system access can occur over the federal government and pose a major threat to the personal privacy of all Americans and the national security of our country,” Gerald Connolly, the supervisory committee’s rank, wrote in a letter on February 6.

In addition to OPM, Democrats used similar security assessments to five other agencies, including the Treasury Division, the General Services Administration, the Small Business Administration, the US Agency for International Development and the Department of Education. However, Vint is the only watchdog at any of the said agencies that have responded so far, a committee spokesman told Wired.

While in the minority in the home and the Senate, Democrats have little power to keep effective oversight beyond formal hearings, which must be met by Republicans. During his first term, Trump’s Justice Department issued guidance and informed executive agencies that they had no obligation to respond to Democrats questions.

Congress Republicans have linked a small, if any, formal oversight of Doge’s work, and prefer to have the billionaire switched back on the effects of its anti-staff crossing.

The executive order that Doge, who was signed by the president on his first day, instructed the federal agencies to give Musk’s operative ‘full and quick access’ to all unclassified record systems to bring about a government -wide purification of ‘fraud, waste and abuse.’ However, it quickly became clear that Doge’s staff, many of their young engineers with direct ties with Musk’s own businesses, paid little attention to the most important precautions; Eschewing, for example, mandatory assessments of new technologies installed on protected government networks.

“Several of the concerns you expressed in your letter on the issues that evaluate the OPM OIG as part of our annual reviews of OPMs IT and Financial Systems, and we plan to include this concern in these existing projects,” Vint in the March 7 letter. “We have also just started an engagement to judge the risks associated with new and modified information systems at OPM. We believe that our new involvement will eventually address many of your questions related to the integrity of OPM systems. “