DOGE Catch-All | DOGE ledger “riddled with errors”

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The influx of tech folks Imost with good intentions but not all( is not new. Visitor logs during Prez obama term had Google officals as top visitors. They set up tje US Digital Service and "fixed" the ACA web site after its disastrpis debut. That is where they can be most useful.

Of course back then, they came to assist, not to take over govt amd take over the US check disbirsing system as Musk has tried to dp.

Ypi can't rum the federal govt like Silicon Valley. Completely different purposes and you need far more checks and balances in tt. You cannot award a gpvt cpmtract on a whim as you can do in the private sector. Conflict of interst rules are corrently far more strict in the federal government.
 
mpaer said:
The buyout stuff can be pretty effective at convincing folks that have full retirement earned and just had counted on doing their jobs 2,3,4 more years. MCcroy did it and gutted a lot of expert and Manager level folks
I got my 8 month buyout
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Nobody believes they’ll actually be paid. Tendering your resignation removes most of your civil service protections.
 
As a member of Congress noted in an interview the other day, you can'' do a federal govt buyour like a Twitter buyout. You can;t promise govt money for any purpose until it has been authorized, obligated and with a budget line. Otherwise, you would have chaos and rampant lack of accountability, fraud and favoritism to cronies or friends. These rules exist for a good rason and there are ways to do emergency spending when needed, which a buyout is definitely not.
 
UNCBAdookJD said:
Nobody believes they’ll actually be paid. Tendering your resignation removes most of your civil service protections.
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That is my concern. It would be perfect in my situation as our townhouse is on the market and I will be moving back to NC when it sells. I'm expecting a big pay cut when i move back, just like when I moved back in 2019. My townhouse mortgage is quite high and I cannot afford to leave my job until it sells, especially with my wife having knee surgery in a couple weeks. Fortunately I have acquired enough sick leave hours to put toward FMLA leave to help her for 4 weeks. She moved back early last fall and wants me in NC full time. If I took the early resignation offer, I could collect my salary(minus the night differential) and move back to NC and take some time off and eventually start a new job.
 
Zoo_View said:
I worked for one of Marc Andreesen’s companies, LoudCloud. Founders were Andreesen, Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes (helped create LDAP), and In Sik Rhee.

I was in sales in the New York office. Our regional VP said she’d fire us if we sold a deal to a dot.com. We signed some good Fortune 500 companies. Not enough.

Andreesen was still mostly the fat, anti-social computer geek he’d been since before Netscape. Ben was sharp; but, goofy - ALL of the Silicon Valley conference rooms were named after rap stars. Tim Howes was sharp as hell and great with clients, customers, and prospects. In Sik - he wanted to be in front of customers; one couldn’t let him meet with customers or prospects.

Andreesen was getting fit. He had consultants who helped him dress and speak. Kudos to him - he knew his weaknesses and was trying to fix them.

He was a draw to some prospects (he was still the Internet wunderkind to some). He was not good in front of Fortune 500 executives.

I’m not surprised that he’s a TechBroligarch.

I’m not surprised he’s a whiny-as-hell billionaire.
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Did you see his interview with Ross Douthat? Whiny elevated to an ethos.
 
Random gripe but do we need the thread titles to have the latest news in them? When reading on mobile, these 3-4 line titles hurt the viewing experience
 
rodoheel said:
Dems better come up with a messaging plan to start screeching about this shit. And work overtime behind the scenes to get their Pub congressional counterparts willing to stand up to this crap.
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Any “messaging” would be dismissed as Democratic whining and “liberal tears” by those who need to hear it. I don’t see many GOPers in Congress with the balls to resist Trump in any way. Many of them understand the threat, but the also understand the threat to their reelection when they get tagged as RINOs. There aren’t many Adam Kinzingers left in Congress.
 


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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.

The system could give the Trump administration another mechanism to attempt to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress, a push that has faced legal roadblocks.

Mr. Musk, who has been given wide latitude by President Trump to find ways to slash government spending, has recently fixated on Treasury’s payment processes, criticizing the department in a social media post on Saturday for not rejecting more payments as fraudulent or improper. …”
 
nycfan said:
Not really but I have found that the news update helps folks find the newer news items included. But happy to try shorter titles to avoid the impact on mobile users.
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Thank you. Understand but yeah there was one time yesterday where I could only see 3 topics on one screen 😂
 
nycfan said:


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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.

The system could give the Trump administration another mechanism to attempt to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress, a push that has faced legal roadblocks.

Mr. Musk, who has been given wide latitude by President Trump to find ways to slash government spending, has recently fixated on Treasury’s payment processes, criticizing the department in a social media post on Saturday for not rejecting more payments as fraudulent or improper. …”
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Just imagine if Biden had turned over all the information in the payment system to George Soros. The acceptance of unprecedented corruption by the American right is just pathetic.
 
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