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Musk’s Slashing of the Federal Budget Faces Big HurdlesNYT non-paywalled link: https://archive.is/wJ1f6
See the bold text below. And pardon me while I 🤮.
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk as co-leader, has advantages that past budget-cutters did not, but laws and court challenges can still make change slow and difficult.
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In Silicon Valley, tech leaders are eagerly seeking positions or introductions to the department, even though for now it is not an actual part of government, but a loose grouping that Elon Musk named after an internet meme. On his social media platform, X, Mr. Musk posted a “Godfather”-style photo of himself as the “Dogefather,” asking government employees, “What did you get done this week?”
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Members of Congress — even Democratic ones — have been offering up ideas for where to cut what Mr. Musk said could be $2 trillion out of the budget.
“It’s going to be very easy,” Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, told Fox News on Tuesday, after she sat in on some of her son’s meetings. Mr. Musk will lead the department along with Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate.

VMA131Marine
(4,937 posts)Once you eliminate Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
The “discretionary” part of the Federal budget is less than $1 Trillion and that doesn’t include the DoD. You can’t cut $2 Trillion without eliminating everything the government does … including payments to red states.
tanyev
(45,999 posts)Maru Kitteh
(29,946 posts)LearnedHand
(4,602 posts)
Iris
(16,335 posts)Ms. Toad
(36,538 posts)It has no authority than any other little social clique. They can invite whoever they want to their sandbox.
2naSalit
(96,345 posts)Of sensitive info passing through their hands that probably shouldn't be and mommy might not be all that friendly to us. And is SHE an American citizen? Just where do mommy's loyalties lie?
LearnedHand
(4,602 posts)Ugh these apartheid nazis make me want to vomit.
Ms. Toad
(36,538 posts)Passed to a private clique. Certainly you are not suggesting that Biden is giving them access to sensitive information.
Even the actual nominees to real positions don't currently have access, because they are refusing to comply with ethics requirements.
2naSalit
(96,345 posts)Leon has a wealth of info available to him through his clearances due to his contracts with the government he wants to destroy. Not only that, he has contacts in other countries who would share info with him that could be intel on us. It's a broad field of possibilities here.
Could be one of the reasons they are thumbing their noses at actual clearances.
Skittles
(163,221 posts)these are a couple of sick fucks
taxi
(2,129 posts)Ingrid Bergman is poisoned by Claude Raines mother. In a nutshell, this movie portrays the current real life MAL characters remarkably well.
https://m.