US SEC leaders push back as Musk's DOGE seeks broad access, source says

By Chris Prentice

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is seeking entree to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission data, including email communications, according to a root acquainted with the matter.

Musk's DOGE squad astatine the SEC, which is being spearheaded by ex-Kalshi enforcement Eliezer Mishory, is seeking afloat entree to email, personnel, declaration and outgo systems, the root told Reuters, speaking connected information of anonymity.

The petition was met with immoderate pushback by leaders astatine the SEC, which is being helmed by Republican Mark Uyeda, the idiosyncratic said. Uyeda has led a bid of overhauls astatine the SEC since taking implicit arsenic acting president successful January.

A spokesperson for the SEC declined to comment. A DOGE spokesperson did not respond instantly to a petition for comment.

Bloomberg was archetypal to study DOGE's petition for access.

With the request, DOGE would summation entree to immense swathes of communications and different information housed astatine the SEC that is considered to beryllium sensitive, including communications regarding investigations. It is unclear what prompted the pushback.

Mishory, a erstwhile authoritative from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, gained entree to the agency's Washington office past month, erstwhile the SEC archetypal informed employees that it was bringing connected DOGE unit and granting them entree to bureau systems, taxable to conditions.

(Reporting by Chris Prentice; Additional reporting by Douglas Gillison; Editing by Rod Nickel)