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- facepalm
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- cross-posted to:
- facepalm
- technology
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.
Great way to get sued for breach of contract. This administration is going to be tied up in court for the next four years
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.
I agree Democrats won’t do anything but Musk is playing at the level where he’s not protected like that. All of this could easily end up in a public corruption case if he steps a single foot wrong.
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.
Yeah I don’t see LockMart and Raytheon taking that sitting down. Musk thinks he has power, he doesn’t really. The MIC runs American finance.
My understanding is they exempted police and military
Ah of course they did
Maybe the one intelligent decision this group has ever made
That’s not going to matter. There are some absolute giants in the contracting world and they’re not going to take this lying down.