DOGE Catch-All

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8992Tiger said:
God, that would be wonderful. Archive it, and in the next election season ask if this the kind of leadership, management, expertise and professionalism this country needs. Then pull up quotes from which ever Trump sycophant happens to be running against you.
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Won’t matter.
 

DOGE Staffers Fear Getting DOGE’d Themselves​

As top Musk allies depart, the government cost-cutting effort is in question, staffers say​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...8?st=VmexBM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… The White House is publicly standing behind its work with DOGE. Nonetheless, the public feud between Trump and Musk has rattled rank-and-file DOGE employees, who worry the government-cutting effort—and their jobs—could be in jeopardy.

… White House spokesman Harrison Fields said Trump’s “success through DOGE is undisputed, and [the president’s] work will continue to yield historic results.”

… Musk’s exit from DOGE leaves a vacuum at the head of the group. Musk’s top lieutenant, Steve Davis, was in charge of the day-to-day management at DOGE, but he has also departed.

Office of Management and Budget leader Russell Vought, who has worked to advance the DOGE agenda, said in congressional testimony earlier this week that with Musk out of the picture, “cabinet agencies that are in charge of the DOGE consultants that work for them are fundamentally in control of DOGE.”…”

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nycfan said:

DOGE Staffers Fear Getting DOGE’d Themselves​

As top Musk allies depart, the government cost-cutting effort is in question, staffers say​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...8?st=VmexBM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… The White House is publicly standing behind its work with DOGE. Nonetheless, the public feud between Trump and Musk has rattled rank-and-file DOGE employees, who worry the government-cutting effort—and their jobs—could be in jeopardy.

… White House spokesman Harrison Fields said Trump’s “success through DOGE is undisputed, and [the president’s] work will continue to yield historic results.”

… Musk’s exit from DOGE leaves a vacuum at the head of the group. Musk’s top lieutenant, Steve Davis, was in charge of the day-to-day management at DOGE, but he has also departed.

Office of Management and Budget leader Russell Vought, who has worked to advance the DOGE agenda, said in congressional testimony earlier this week that with Musk out of the picture, “cabinet agencies that are in charge of the DOGE consultants that work for them are fundamentally in control of DOGE.”…”

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^ refusing to pay to find out where storms are going to go, then crippling FEMA so they refuse to pay after the storm hits the unprepared area.

the Southeast is about to become a shithole country after a few years of this.
 
altmin said:
^ refusing to pay to find out where storms are going to go, then crippling FEMA so they refuse to pay after the storm hits the unprepared area.

the Southeast is about to become a shithole country after a few years of this.
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Let’s be honest…..aside from isolated pockets (Charlotte, RTP, Boone, Asheville, Wilmington, Triad, Greenville-SC, Atlanta, etc.), the Southeast has been a shithole country since at least the antebellum days.
 
altmin said:
And the Supreme Court opens the floodgates

www.msnbc.com

Supreme Court grants Trump appeal to lift order blocking his mass federal worker firings

It’s the latest Supreme Court action on a Trump administration request for emergency relief from a lower court ruling.
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There was no breakdown of how the Supreme Court justices voted, though Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, was the only justice to provide a dissenting opinion. She wrote:

In my view, this was the wrong decision at the wrong moment, especially given what little this Court knows about what is actually happening on the ground. ... This case is about whether that action amounts to a structural overhaul that usurps Congress’s policymaking prerogatives — and it is hard to imagine deciding that question in any meaningful way after those changes have happened. Yet, for some reason, this Court sees fit to step in now and release the President’s wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation.
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Safe to say it was 8-1, with only Jackson dissenting. SS and EK are probably out of energy and went along with it because why not. Well, SS did explain why, but I don't find it convincing. I think she's mailing it in this month. As she has every right to do. It was not that long ago that the court's vacations were vacations, before the Stupid Six decided to micromanage the dockets of every district court and stay everything brought to them.
 

The Fight Between Musk Acolytes and the White House for Control of DOGE​

Elon Musk’s allies are fighting for influence at DOGE as the White House moves to neuter the office​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...7?st=r7XZqV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… Musk’s influence continues to be felt at DOGE largely through Steve Davis, who was his top lieutenant at DOGE before leaving the government in May, according to some of those people. Despite no longer being a government employee, Davis continues to give directions to DOGE officials regularly and has privately told some of them that his departure was “fake news,” say people familiar with the conversations.

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Some current and former DOGE officials say allies of Musk want to finish the work they started and usher in a DOGE 2.0 focused more on revamping government websites and information-technology systems than cutting government workers. But others, including some inside the White House, say they believe Musk and Davis are keeping tentacles in government to help their businesses.

During his time at DOGE, Musk and his allies helped SpaceX, Tesla and X employees get jobs across the government.

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Some senior DOGE officials have expressed concerns about Davis—an outside businessman connected to the world’s richest man—continuing to potentially have access to sensitive government information through his DOGE contacts. Some of them have conveyed their concerns to White House officials.

Davis subsequently pushed for their firing, calling their back-channeling an attempted coup, according to current and former employees close to DOGE. …”
 
nycfan said:

The Fight Between Musk Acolytes and the White House for Control of DOGE​

Elon Musk’s allies are fighting for influence at DOGE as the White House moves to neuter the office​


🎁 —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...7?st=r7XZqV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“… Musk’s influence continues to be felt at DOGE largely through Steve Davis, who was his top lieutenant at DOGE before leaving the government in May, according to some of those people. Despite no longer being a government employee, Davis continues to give directions to DOGE officials regularly and has privately told some of them that his departure was “fake news,” say people familiar with the conversations.

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Some current and former DOGE officials say allies of Musk want to finish the work they started and usher in a DOGE 2.0 focused more on revamping government websites and information-technology systems than cutting government workers. But others, including some inside the White House, say they believe Musk and Davis are keeping tentacles in government to help their businesses.

During his time at DOGE, Musk and his allies helped SpaceX, Tesla and X employees get jobs across the government.

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Some senior DOGE officials have expressed concerns about Davis—an outside businessman connected to the world’s richest man—continuing to potentially have access to sensitive government information through his DOGE contacts. Some of them have conveyed their concerns to White House officials.

Davis subsequently pushed for their firing, calling their back-channeling an attempted coup, according to current and former employees close to DOGE. …”
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Seems like this one could also fall under Trump v. musk Will their battles become legend thread
 
Doge is still burrowing into the government to wreak havoc. Now farmers are entering the DOGE FAFO stage.


A staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the United States, according to internal access logs reviewed by NPR.

"When we talk about farm loan application records, there is no more personal information anywhere than in that database," Scott M6arlow, a former senior official in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, told NPR. "The farmer's entire financial life and the life of their kids and their family, every time they've missed a payment, every time they've had a hard time, every time they've gotten in financial trouble … it's there."


A source working for the USDA provided evidence of DOGE's high-level access to the payments system called the National Payment Service. The access is a highly privileged level of permissions that the USDA employee says no other individual at the agency has and goes against normal access protocols. With that access, DOGE can view and modify data entries inside the system, giving them a view into sensitive personal information and the power to outright cancel loans.

It's unclear whether staffers previously employed by DOGE are now full-time employees at USDA. Another USDA employee who requested anonymity fearing retribution said that the group is now internally referred to as the Efficiency Team, or the "E team."

The move is in line with an early command by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to give DOGE "full access and transparency," though it may run counter to the agency's long-standing policies around data protection and privacy. DOGE's near unfettered access to sensitive data at other agencies like the Treasury Department and the Social Security Administration continues to be challenged in court due to privacy, security and legal concerns.
 
This is BS.

DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers​


A staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the United States, according to internal access logs reviewed by NPR.

 
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