Current Events > 'Trump will kick out Musk! any day now!' Musk taking over multiple agency within

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People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner workings of multiple government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration.
The Washington Post reported Friday that the highest-ranking career official at Treasury is leaving the department after a clash with people working for Musks so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over access to sensitive payment systems, citing three unnamed sources.
The DOGE officials have been asking for access to the system which controls the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to programs like Social Security and Medicare since after the election in November. The Trump administration has been looking for ways to stop the flow of federal money appropriated by Congress, including hastily ordering a confusing spending freeze, which experts say violates the Constitution.
Reuters also reported Friday that Musk aides have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, citing two unnamed agency officials. Leaked documents obtained by Wired show Musks staff have taken over the General Services Administration, a government agency that manages federal offices and technology.
Across the government, tech workers are being grilled and subjected to code reviews by Musk aides, Wired reported Thursday. Musk and his team also appear to have been involved in a recent government-wide email offering employees the chance to resign.
Musks disruption of the federal government so far tracks closely to the chaotic days following his takeover of Twitter, as detailed by books like Character Limit and other reporting from the time.
It represents an unprecedented power grab within the U.S. government, and one that directly contradicts the original stated purpose of DOGE. When Donald Trump first announced it in November after he won the election, the idea was to set up DOGE as an entity outside the federal government that would make recommendations on where to cut spending.

Thats not what happened.
After his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order that renamed the U.S. Digital Service to the U.S. DOGE service, meaning Musk is now working inside the government. He reportedly has an office in the West Wing of the White House, but is also apparently sleeping at the DOGE office, according to Wired.

No shit, everyone knew this. And by drain the swamp, they meant clog it and devalue the dollar.

Musk really should be arrested for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OujB43E-JeI

Just some reactions to this.

I'm convinced that the time to start leaving the US is now if you already haven't. This country is f***ed beyond repair.

I'm convinced that the time to start leaving the US is now if you already haven't. This country is fucked beyond repair.

A) Countries swinging toward fascism or at least the hard right is happening everywhere
B) If the US totally and completely falls to fascism then nowhere will be safe

Ughhhh

And even if it does, I am honestly at the point where I feel it'll destroy itself first before other places.

The United States no longer existing is a bad thing. Welcome to a world where China is the reigning power.

Musk really should be arrested for this...

A) Countries swinging toward fascism or at least the hard right is happening everywhere
B) If the US totally and completely falls to fascism then nowhere will be safe

Why even bother when Trump would just pardon him?

Catch him in a State. Pardons don't count against State charges.

A) Countries swinging toward fascism or at least the hard right is happening everywhere
B) If the US totally and completely falls to fascism then nowhere will be safe

but does living in the capital of the of the evil empire sound smart to you?

Your right that nowhere is safe, but even the counties that are swinging to hard right are still rejecting total facist rule, for the most part. America is Speedrunning through the stages so fast, its gonna be more fascist than most far right countries within the year.

America has actually fallen furtherthan most of those countries under far right leadership, and it will be in freefall for a long time, in other words, it will just keep falling further and further with the passage of time.

No shit, everyone knew this. And by drain the swamp, they meant clog it and devalue the dollar.

And where would be stable when everywhere from Canadian's to Germany seems to be diving to right wing ideology to...

If/when Musk gets bored or fired, and he heads off to Wormtongue some other country, he is absolutely using his new access to transfer what's left in the US Treasury into his own bank account.

It's only a matter of time before Trump gets jealous and ends the bromance.

They both think they're "alpha males" so obviously they can't exist in the same space forever.

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ydtsvzzsl6nlfkmnuooeqcmc/post/3lh5ejpwncc23?ref_src=embed

America is done. Musk and Trump will just empty out the vaults.

I'd be modded if I say what I wish would happen to Musk.

and if you tell the average person they are so full of themselves they won't believe until it starts effecting them

And when it finally does start affecting them, Donnie and the Muskrat will just trot out a convenient scapegoat, so that the average person goes along with the GOP's genocide of basically everyone that isn't themselves.

Trump and Musk are narcissists, but their hatred of the "weak" and vulnerable is even stronger than their narcissism. Hatred is sadly a strong unifier, they can put their differences aside, just like how Hitler and Mussolini did.

So they would suddenly follow the laws this time?

People still think Trump being narcissist means Musk gone any day now?

Yes because he's not Trump. The same goes for his little kid minions.