Summary
Elon Musk claims his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is shutting down payments to federal contractors, including a Lutheran charity, asserting it is eliminating corruption.
This suggests DOGE has access to Treasury’s payment systems, though officials have not confirmed the extent.
Senator Ron Wyden warned that DOGE may interfere with Social Security, Medicare, and government contracts.
Musk also called USAID “a criminal organization” that should “die,” amid DOGE’s growing influence over federal financial operations.
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Musk is himself a giant government contractor via Space X and Starlink. Odds are he’s just trying to clear the board to funnel the money to his businesses. Especially when it comes to defense money!
How is anyone permitting any of these people to have authority?
Trump’s government is basically pay-to-play and Elon paid the most so he gets to do whatever he wants.
Does anyone know what the story is behind this charity he’s mentioning?
Edit: looks like they feed and provide shelter for asylum seekers, and obviously he’s against that.
Great way to get sued for breach of contract. This administration is going to be tied up in court for the next four years
Do you really think this is going to play out in a court? They don’t care about the law and are actively plowing through them at will.
Unfortunately, when all this stuff is resolved, it’s still the government that’s on the hook, not Musk personally. Although the new admin should probably just impound all of his and Trump’s assets to pay for the fallout, but obviously Democrats would never do anything this based.
Oh please start halting payments to government contractors. This guy starts holding payments to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon he’s going to wind up real Dead real quick
Or Boeing. Boeing certainly seems to not have an issue with taking care of people who are causing them problems.
How much can a hitman really cost?!
With the way things are going, I fully expect them to make a beneficial deal that includes Elon because fuck everything
A lot of our day to day military operations run on contractors. This seems like a good way to get more helicopters falling out of the sky.
Hey military industrial complex! Please coup this administration all ready.
At what point do we declare this a coup? This isn’t what even the most diehard conservatives out there voted for, I don’t understand how this isn’t considered a hostile takeover.
It’s stressing me out to no end. I think the average person doesn’t even know this is currently happening.
It’s being censored.
I don’t follow politics. I voted for trump because it was badass when he said fight fight fight. Elon’s a genius, I’m sure he’s gonna make it better.
These are real takes I’ve heard out there in the world.
When this happens in a developing country we laugh at their politics.
When it happens in America, no one bats an eye
Americans still think their country is somehow different even though it’s still a developing country in many respects.
Not just country nations, reminder the regions with the strongest identities are either the oldest, important, or Mormon. We are very much kn the same state the late western Roman empire was in, where they had African Romance, Brithonic Romance, and Gaulic Romance we have Californian, Texan, and Northestern the east coast tracks to eastern Mediterranean.
USA is the new banana republic.
Oh no I am absolutely laughing at America
This isn’t even what the most diehard conservatives out there voted for
Hungarian here, whose face got eaten by the leopards.
Political illiteracy is a serious problem, and so is the access to information. They actually thought the crime rates were up, because the very few news outlets they’re exposed to likes to uplift a few cases with scary headlines, often making anniversary reports on some crimes. They actually thought, that the opposition was “too far-left”, because pundits told them so, and they learned in school the real nazis did evil things for the sole sake of evil, thus people that say they want to eliminate crime, and have crime statistics must not be far-right.
This is not for to excuse their behavior, but to explain it. Maybe can even lead to an end of this cycle.
Fucking yes.
All conservatives at the tables with all these nazis asking who voted in all the nazis.
At this point your party has folded. Keep saying “but not meeeee, I’m a real conservative!” All you want.
They’re in too deep to admit how badly they obviously fucked up. Shit is gonna have to actually reach the ugly bitter end, leaving them no other possible explanation to try to hide behind. In the meantime, this must be what it felt like for the citizens of Rome as it burned.
It is not until it affects them on a personal level they make that realization. That is how far the empathy of the average conservative voter reaches.
Well, in essence and at its purest level the difference in thinking between Leftwing and Rightwing is the difference between “I want people to have a better life” and “I want to have a better life”.
All the political complexity above that comes from the different possible ways to achieve either end and from how one end partly overlaps with the other (i.e. for many a general improvement of people’s lifes gets translated into a personal improvement).
So yeah, conservatives are just “What’s in it for me” types who believe in a different method to maximize their personal upside than the Fascists. In fact many American-style Liberals (the political version of “Liberal” in the US, not to be confused with those who believe in the actual Liberal Ideology) are also rightwingers who believe in yet another method for personal upside improvement.
And here I am, too damn poor to afford a fiddle…
Now, it is happening right now: https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-destruction
This is exactly what they voted for and they’ll fucking do it again.
He has no legal authority
Lawsuit submitted
Lower court determines whether to stay the action while case is handled
Changes are unrecoverable since department can’t pay staff managing the payments
Law enforcement given warrant to force stay
Law enforcement chooses not to enforce because they have no motivation
Payments never restored
Case goes to supreme court
Law interpreted in favor of the administration because clearly no means yes, it’s obvious
Congress doesn’t respond due to right wing majority
Checks and balances are dead.
Legal authority stopped mattering the FIRST time the grifter in chief was selected president.
You still think the law can stop them. Adorable.
So… SpaceX is one of the contractors not being paid right? Right?
L-m-a-o roflmao even
This is a great way to end up on the military-indistrial complex hitlist
Can only hope he goes for them and not just the small businesses and academia. Something tells me he’ll go for civil facing departments and generally avoid DOD
Raytheon would like to know your latitude and longitude
Care package incoming.
Ah the Trump approach to contractors. And Musk approach to rent.
It’s just like when Dumpf would stiff his contractors LMAO 🤣
