Musk Claims To Know The Net Worths Of Federal Employees - But How?

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10. Sounds like someone pulled data from the Federal employee Financial Disclosure databases and other Federal data

It sounds like someone in DOGE pulled data from the annual financial disclosure reports certain Federal civil servants, depending on their grade and duties, have to submit annually through a database system.

I was a Federal employee (GS-13) for 14 1/2 years and had to make such a financial disclosure annually until I retired in December 2022. Pretty much you have to report any investments outside a widely traded mutual fund or ETF, your income and your spouse's income including sources, any loans to anyone or loans you got from someone on a deal not open to the general public. The weirdest thing I ran across was the need to disclose data pertaining to whole life insurance policies that we owned, even on grandchildren!