{"id":26438,"date":"2025-02-18T14:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=26438"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:41:55","slug":"sen-ossoff-colleagues-request-information-on-elon-musks-access-to-va-medical-records","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-colleagues-request-information-on-elon-musks-access-to-va-medical-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff, Colleagues Request Information on\u00a0Elon Musk\u2019s Access to VA Medical Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. <\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to safeguard veterans\u2019 private information, asking questions about Elon Musk\u2019s access to veterans\u2019 medical records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff, Ranking Member of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, led a group of Senators pressing VA Secretary Doug Collins to protect veterans, their families, and VA staff from unprecedented access to sensitive information by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (\u201cDOGE\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff is joined by Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and fellow Subcommittee members Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Gary Peters (D-MI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent report<\/a> by Military.com, \u201cDOGE\u201d employees had accessed VA computer systems at the Department\u2019s headquarters in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe understand that personnel reporting to Mr. Musk have recently visited VA facilities,\u201dSen. Ossoff and the group wrote to VA Secretary Collins. <\/strong>\u201cSenators, veterans, and members of the public have serious concerns regarding Mr. Musk\u2019s extraordinary and unprecedented activities and the lack of transparency surrounding them, including his potential access to and handling of sensitive or personal information.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAccordingly, we seek specific information regarding VA\u2019s engagement with Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (\u201cDOGE\u201d),\u201d they continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff and the group requested a list of \u201cDOGE\u201d personnel who have visited VA facilities, the systems they accessed, and whether veteran data \u2014 including medical and service records \u2014 may have been viewed, copied, or transferred. The group also requested that Secretary Collins reveal the nature of the agreement under which \u201cDOGE\u201d personnel are governed by in their engagement with the VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect Georgia\u2019s veterans and ensure that their vulnerable data is safeguarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week, Sen. Ossoff and a group of Senators urged<\/a> the Trump Administration to resume the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau\u2019s (CFPB) work investigating and enforcing protections for military families and veterans against predatory lenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, Sen. Ossoff announced expanded benefits<\/a> for thousands of Georgia veterans through the PACT Act<\/em>, including those battling bladder cancer, ureter cancer, other genitourinary cancers, acute and chronic leukemias, and multiple myeloma thanks to the bipartisan PACT Act<\/em> he helped pass into law in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read the Senators\u2019 inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to safeguard veterans\u2019 private information, asking questions about Elon Musk\u2019s access to veterans\u2019 medical records.  Sen. Ossoff, Ranking Member of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, led a group of Senators pressing VA Secretary Doug Collins to protect veterans, their families, and VA staff from unprecedented […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26438","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26442,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/26438\/revisions\/26442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}