Musk now controls all US payments 🚨 | USDA freezes payments to farmers

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1moretimeagain said:
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whaaat? This strikes me as a fall guy/red meat situation. That commentary strikes me as less odious than Rubio's staffer, Darren Beattie, stating:
“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” Beattie wrote on X in October. “Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”​
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“Britain treats its own native white people far worse than China treats its muslim Uighur population,” he wrote in August of that same year.​
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“I have more respect for Jeffrey Epstein than Bill Barr,” he tweeted in 2020, referring to the infamous sexual predator and former attorney general, respectively. “At least Epstein wasn’t a pussy.” On January 6, 2021, he spent the day on X warning Senator Tim Scott, “BLM,” Ibram X. Kendi, and Kay Cole James to “learn their places” and “take a knee” to MAGA.​
 
nycfan said:
But how much damage did he do rewriting code first?
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He now has a back door into the system. It won’t matter that he was fired, he can get back in regardless. They better be rolling it back to what the system was set at before he touched it. Even then, he would now know if there was any vulnerability inherent to the system. Good to know that the White House assured us earlier today that this crew all passed their security clearances. This shit should be blowing up the airwaves. No wonder Musk was so pissed that the names of people involved were getting out.
 

DOGE deputy to oversee powerful Treasury system as Musk demands cuts​

The move follows the ousting of a career official who rebuffed attempts to use the payment system to stop federal spending.


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Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley executive with ties to DOGE, will become the financial assistant secretary of the Treasury Department, the people said. He replaces David A. Lebryk, who resigned after objecting to Krause’s demands to stop payments on foreign aid — a measure Lebryk resisted as illegal.

Krause’s position will give him control over the Treasury Department system responsible for disbursing more than $5 trillion in annual payments, including for Social Security, Medicare, tax refunds and thousands of other measures. Musk has demanded on social media that Treasury unilaterally stop sending these payments, accusing the department’s career staff of breaking the law.

The decision puts Musk’s DOGE in a potential position to make sweeping changes to the federal budget, with implications for tens of millions of Americans.

The payment system, run by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, contains sensitive taxpayer information, and some former Treasury officials have expressed concerns about granting access to individuals with private business interests. The move has also touched off broad alarm within the Treasury Department, the people said.

“This is the bureau designed to be run by a career, nonpolitical person, but being taken over by a member of DOGE,” said Aaron Klein, a former Treasury Department official now at the Brookings Institution, a D.C. think tank.

“It’s pretty scary — the Fiscal Service is the bureau of the people who cut the checks. They don’t determine who gets the checks. And the data that goes through this is of massive national security consequences.” …”
 


Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk’s Team​

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

“… Judge Engelmayer ordered any such official who was granted access to the systems since Jan. 20 to “destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems.” He also restricted the Trump administration from granting access to these categories of officials.

The defendants — President Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Treasury Department — should show cause on Feb. 14 before Judge Jeannette A. Vargas, who is handling the case on a permanent basis, Judge Engelmayer said.

… Before President Trump took office last month, access was granted to only a limited number of career civil servants with security clearances, the suit said. But Mr. Musk’s efforts had interrupted federal funding for health clinics, preschools, and climate initiatives, according to the filing.

The money had already been allocated by Congress. The Constitution assigns to lawmakers the job of deciding government spending.

“President Trump does not have the power to give away Americans’ private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress,” Ms. James said in a statement. “Musk and DOGE have no authority to access Americans’ private information and some of our country’s most sensitive data.” …”
 
When a reporter asked Trump whether Musk and his "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) task force really needed that kind of access to Americans' sensitive data, the president replied, "Well, it doesn't, but they get it easily. I mean, we don't have very good security in this country and they get it very easily."

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President Donald Trump was finally confronted at a joint press conference with the Japanese prime minister on Friday about tech billionaire Elon Musk's rapid infiltration of government IT systems — in particular access to the system that handles almost all payments for the Treasury Department...
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BlooVooDoo said:
He’s 25 and doesn’t have the resources to protect himself and his family for the next 4 decades and neither Trump or Musk will give the tiniest of shits.
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Yep. One nice thing for them about hiring all of these very young flunkies straight out of college (or not even college grads) is that they have no resources or probably life and work experience to know how to protect themselves, can be paid less, and are therefore highly expendable. And easily intimidated and manipulated as well.
 
Musk has repeatedly blatantly lied or grossly mislead about his “findings” so grain of salt:

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I hope at least this is a sign of Musk backing down/moderating his attempt at unchecked control of payments out of Treasury in the face of court orders.

Note his apparent focus on blocking entitlement payments. I agree that the estimated fraud number by whoever “people in the room” are sounds insane — insanely overstated or insane if true, with widely different implications…

I am 100% cool with an audit of the process and improvements in record-keeping but Musk has proven completely untrustworthy in running or reporting such a process — and nothing he has done so far constitutes anything like a proper, professional audit.

In addition, nothing should be implemented on the fly, like weekly or daily updates to the do not pay list that could throw unsuspecting social security recipients into a bureaucratic hell if they are wrongly listed and denied their payments.
 
nycfan said:
Musk has repeatedly blatantly lied or grossly mislead about his “findings” so grain of salt:

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I hope at least this is a sign of Musk backing down/moderating his attempt at unchecked control of payments out of Treasury in the face of court orders.

Note his apparent focus on blocking entitlement payments. I agree that the estimated fraud number by whoever “people in the room” are sounds insane — insanely overstated or insane if true, with widely different implications…

I am 100% cool with an audit of the process and improvements in record-keeping but Musk has proven completely untrustworthy in running or reporting such a process — and nothing he has done so far constitutes anything like a proper, professional audit.

In addition, nothing should be implemented on the fly, like weekly or daily updates to the do not pay list that could throw unsuspecting social security recipients into a bureaucratic hell if they are wrongly listed and denied their payments.
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This makes it hard to believe that Musk has made any actual good faith arrangement with Treasury or that he can be trusted in any of his related claims.
 


He is basically comparing the U.S. Government to East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall and endorsing himself seizing control of the entire domestic government apparatus.
 
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The people who are engaged in a series of illegal abuses of government power - some might even call it a coup! - are labeling even the slightest judicial pushback to be a coup. I don't know where this ends, but its clear where they want it to end.
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Elon Musk has no more credibility than Donald Trump. I want to hear from pre-Bessent Treasury employees, not DOGE/Trump lackeys. I want to hear from the Inspector General fired by Trump.
 
lawtig02 said:
If you had put money ten years ago on the South African neo-Nazis being the ones to finally topple the US experiment, you’d be a rich man right now. Not that it would do any good.
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'The feel of a coup': Elon Musk said to be poised to 'defy' major judicial order​

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'The feel of a coup': Elon Musk said to be poised to 'defy' major judicial order

Elon Musk appears poised to defy a judicial order, according to observers. Musk, the richest man in the world and an appointee of Donald Trump, was dealt a blow over the weekend when a judge reportedly blocked Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing personal financial...
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