- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- politics@beehaw.org
Summary
Elon Musk vowed to cancel government grants after allegedly gaining access to the US Treasury’s payments system, triggering the abrupt resignation of a senior official.
Musk, who leads Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claimed his team found Treasury officials approving payments without scrutiny.
Democrats, including Sen. Ron Wyden, raised alarms over Musk’s influence on federal funds. Treasury access concerns intensified after Trump ally Michael Flynn posted grant payments online.
Musk’s authority to halt payments remains unclear, and the Treasury has not responded to inquiries.
He’s not an employee of the Federal Government. This is completely illegal. And he’s a psychopathic junkie so…
I think you just hit on the Cabinet hiring requirements.
“Illegal” no longer means anything for the top people in the Trump administration. Including the ones who are not official employees.
Yup, they know what we all know. That the American justice system is the butt of a joke.
It’s open season for criminality if you’re a politician or rich person.
Why isn’t he arrested
Which brownshirt do you want to arrest him? The ones in Congress? The ones in the SC? The gestapo?
He IS the gestapo!
What did you think they meant by “Department of Government Efficiency”?
Hey now, just because they sent a message to everyone in the government to report on any suspicious DEI looking stuff… oh wait…
Money
That’s what I’m wondering!