sudly said:

I'm starting to reckon Trump might be going to try and crash the economy and bet against it........

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sudly said:

I'm starting to reckon Trump might be going to try and crash the economy and bet against it........

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Musk says DOGE is halting Treasury payments to US contractors


The terse Executive Order establishing DOGE sets forth as its mandate to modernize federal information technology. But the largest donor to Trump's 2024 campaign, Elon Musk is unilaterally expanding that mandate to include control over financial flows throughout the federal government. Top security officials at USAID that understood the lawlessness of Musk's actions were placed on leave Saturday after refusing to allow DOGE staffers access to systems at the foreign assistance agency, saying the DOGE staffers lacked the required security clearances.

Musk is targeting systems that process tens of billions of dollars a day in payments for US government agencies and the officials that oversee them. Musk’s statements on Sunday, February 2, 2025, follow last week’s departure of David Lebryk, the Treasury Department’s most senior career official, after Lebryk clashed with Musk.

Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said Friday that he’s been told that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has granted DOGE full access to Treasury’s payment systems.

    “Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk’s own companies,” Wyden said on BlueSky, a social media rival to Musk’s X. “All of it.”

Treasury officials have long maintained that its role is to serve as the federal government’s clerk maintaining the government checkbook, but per the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), the spending power is vested in Congress, which upon appropriation directs individual agencies to disburse the subject funds.

Elon Musk's unlawful actions are interfering with funds already appropriated by Congress and which are being administered in accordance with law by authorized agencies. Unelected Elon Musk's actions constitute a direct interference with the official acts of Congress which earlier authorized specific spending and directed government agencies to carry out that legislative directive.

Musk's actions warrant criminal prosecution.

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WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading U.S. President Donald Trump's drive to shrink the federal government, gave an update on the effort early Monday, saying work is underway to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency USAID.

USAID is the world's largest single donor. In fiscal year 2023, the U.S. disbursed $72 billion of assistance worldwide on everything from women's health in conflict zones to access to clean water, HIV/AIDS treatments, energy security and anti-corruption work. It provided 42% of all humanitarian aid tracked by the United Nations in 2024

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vicepope said:

You be surprised how fast re tooling is. Half the warehouses here where empty Jan 1st. Now only 2 out of 156 are empty.  New tire manufacturers, new FedEx hubs, new glass windows manufacturers and new dawn foods icing plant moved in. Really want to rob the icing truck one day.

Again jobs will increase, yes the cost goods will increase terribly but with all the overtime or second jobs . People will to busy to notice.

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Seriously_trippin said:

vicepope said:

You be surprised how fast re tooling is. Half the warehouses here where empty Jan 1st. Now only 2 out of 156 are empty.  New tire manufacturers, new FedEx hubs, new glass windows manufacturers and new dawn foods icing plant moved in. Really want to rob the icing truck one day.

Again jobs will increase, yes the cost goods will increase terribly but with all the overtime or second jobs . People will to busy to notice.

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You're saying that things will be so expensive people will have to get 2 jobs if they don't already and they'll be worked to the bone to the point where it breaks their spirit to the point where they don't notice how much they're being fucked? What kind of George Orwell piece of shit future is that? Is that really what we want? That's by far the most insane rationale you've ever given.

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koods said:

Mexico has imposed a 50% tax on Tesla vehicles. This is the way.

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If only every country was more like mexico.

koods said:

Elon Musk has disabled Direct File, the system where you can file your taxes directly to the IRS instead of using third party commercial service likes Quicken. It makes no sense whatsoever. Get rid a free service and make people file on paper or pay a company.

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