The Department of Government Efficiency (aka DOGE)

[Rotadom]

And your just a pathetic little communist leftist who really doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground! now go whine to someone that cares!

 

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Smith reminded her constituents on Friday: “Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.”

Smith added of her Republican colleagues: "What they want to do is to pay for their tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations by taking your health care."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...&cvid=6ed6c9fa434a454b9517656e40ba37a8&ei=121

 

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...e5c35af70741dcb1afadbc2cd0e657&ei=131#details

 

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Trump is hurting farmers
U.S. farmers in regions strongly supportive of the MAGA movement are facing challenges due to numerous funding cuts implemented by President Donald Trump.
On the one hand, farmers who invested in infrastructure and environmental measures upfront under former president Joe Biden’s signature 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), have been left in limbo.

Research into climate-smart crops axed

still, no doubt there's a billionaire oligarch out there somewhere who stands to cash in via trump on having the monopoly on drought/flood resistant seeds

“We are American farmers, and so we are the people that when we hear ‘America first’..., that message is supposed to be for us,” 44-year-old Elisa Lane, who owns a 15-acre fruit farm in Maryland, told AFP.

her main gripe is 'this shouldn't be happening to us!'

In Kansas, where USAid was the main market for farmers’ grain, Nick Levendofsky, executive director of Kansas Farmer’s Union told CNN that the ability of farmers to sell their grain has come to “a screeching halt.”

Then add the knock-on effects of the steel tariffs on farm equipment... but, according to Levendofsky, farmers are still likely to continue to support trump until they're hurting even more.

“They didn’t vote for these things. They didn’t vote for food aid to stop going to hungry people all across the world and they certainly didn’t vote for tariffs that hurt their markets.”

well, except they did... they just didn't realise his actions would hurt themselves; they were supposed to hurt those 'other people'.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...e5c35af70741dcb1afadbc2cd0e657&ei=296#image=1

 

[DeluxAuto]

Elon Musk backed AfD loses in Germany. New Chancellor says he's committed toward European independence from the US due to the current state of American leadership

 

[Fuzzy1975]

History will determine if the disruption is good or bad. Many people are uncomfortable with change.

Wasn't it Clinton who did the last sweep? About 350 k government employee's were let go. I think it took about 6 months of studying before the first layoff occurred. Again if my memories correct, there were no hiccups to the system.

We see them every day with endless grievance threads on this forum.

You're confusing grievance with warning.

Others voted for change and are embracing it.

Yes you did.

We accept the finger wagging prophets of doom.

Perfect, however if the doom happens accepting it is the least of your concern.

 

[MajorRewrite]

The Clown Show Administration in action: They are perfectly idiotic!

Musk: “Respond to this email with your week’s accomplishments or you’re fired.”

Federal Agencies: “Ignore Musk’s email.”

Office of Personnel and Management: “Responding to the email is voluntary.”

Agitated Petulant Musk: “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.”

 

[Lazaran]

The Clown Show Administration in action: They are perfectly idiotic!

Musk: “Respond to this email with your week’s accomplishments or you’re fired.”

Federal Agencies: “Ignore Musk’s email.”

Office of Personnel and Management: “Responding to the email is voluntary.”

Agitated Petulant Musk: “Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.”

The clown show administration is just beginning to build up to their ultimate pratfall. (Watch the stock market, unemployment, and prices.)



We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BillBurr/comments/1ixgapz/this_video_leaked_today_and_many_people_are

 

[ll74]

Fuck em. Firefighters, cops, medical.....fuck em

They don't need health subsidies.

9/11 Health Program Staff Cut as Trump Slashes Size of Government​

 

[ll74]

The National Park budget is $3.6 billion but it creates $55 billion in economic output.


But sure....let's fire staff

 

[AlexBailey]

The National Park budget is $3.6 billion but it creates $55 billion in economic output.


But sure....let's fire staff

I’m sure they’ll find a corporate sponsor - just like sports stadiums. The names of the parks will change every few years and parking and concessions will be astronomically expensive.

More winning.

 

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21 employees of department renamed DOGE resign to protest dismantling of 'critical public services' The employees worked for the U.S. Digital Service before it became DOGE

"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services," said the letter from the 21 employees, who began working with Musk team over the last 10 days.

 

[ChinoMoreno]

 

[Lazaran]

21 employees of department renamed DOGE resign to protest dismantling of 'critical public services' The employees worked for the U.S. Digital Service before it became DOGE

The resistance is just beginning.

Wait until more of the “hardships” (and fascist actions) President Musk (and DonOld) promised start to materialize.

I believe it’s going to get veeeeery ugly.

It didn’t have to be this way.

We. Told. Them. So.

 

[ll74]

The White House refuses to tell the American people who the head of DOGE actually is.

The President has not nominated any acting head and the Senate has not confirmed any nominee.

 

[Lazaran]

Amy Gleason was named by President Musk (and DonOld) as the "acting" administrator of DOGE.

Amy Gleason apparently hasn’t done any work for DOGE, and she was reportedly on vacation in Mexico.





Also:

Politico reporter Kyle Cheney said on X: "Of course, if Amy Gleason is the administrator of DOGE, as my colleagues and others have now confirmed, the questions now are *when* she was named and whether she has actual authority or is a conduit for Musk. DOJ lawyers couldn't answer either question in court yesterday."







We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Politruk]

Now they say the head of DOGE is a civil servant named Amy Gleason.

The acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.

The White House on Tuesday afternoon identified Amy Gleason as the acting leader of DOGE, which has been pushing agencies to fire employees, cancel contracts and make other budget cuts.

Although DOGE’s cuts have been championed by billionaire Elon Musk and his associates, the White House has insisted that Musk is overseeing the effort as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, not a DOGE employee.

 

[Politruk]

Making government more efficient is a horrible idea.

It doesn't look, now, as if that is going to happen.

 

[Politruk]

Judge rules mass firings illegal.

A federal judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration's firing of thousands of probationary employees is illegal and should be stopped.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup says the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must rescind directives sent to some agencies ordering them to fire their probationary employees — typically those in their first or second year in a job.

Alsup issued the temporary restraining order at the end of a hearing on Thursday. His order covers agencies whose firings impact the civic organizations that sued the Trump administration. Those agencies include the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Park Service, the Small Business Administration, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

The lawsuit, originally brought by labor unions and later joined by the civic groups, alleges that OPM unlawfully ordered agencies to carry out the firings.

"Statements from officials at multiple federal agencies admit that the agencies carried out the terminations not at their own discretion, but on the direct orders of OPM," the coalition's attorneys wrote in a court filing.

Underpinning their argument is the fact that, while OPM handles many human resource functions for the federal workforce, it does not have Congressional authority to manage the employees of other agencies, a point that Alsup underscored in court.

 

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Exclusive-Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. government workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk in recent weeks were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what to do if approached by foreign adversaries, four sources told Reuters.

The lack of so-called "read outs" for workers with clearances dismissed by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in February could raise security risks as they dealt with secret information on everything from managing nuclear weapons to protecting the power grid from influence by adversaries and ensuring the safety of U.S international development staffers, former security officials said.

Not 'de-briefed', retention of laptops, foreign agents actively targeting the 'disgruntled' for classified information... what a shit show

The lack of so-called "read outs" for workers with clearances dismissed by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in February could raise security risks as they dealt with secret information on everything from managing nuclear weapons to protecting the power grid from influence by adversaries and ensuring the safety of U.S international development staffers, former security officials said.

Dismissed employees with top-secret clearances are normally given a final security briefing reminding them of non-disclosure agreements they signed when they got the clearance. They would also sign forms acknowledging that disclosing any kind of classified information is illegal and turn in their laptops, said the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.

 

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Jon Stewart agrees to Elon Musk's condition for 'Daily Show' interview: 'I am game'

after x-ers pushing for musk to go on Jon Stewart's show to respond to his 'tirade' against musk and doge, musk said he'd go on the Daily Show so long as the interview was aired unedited

Jon Stewart: fine, let's do it. That's how we normally do the in-studio interviews anyway! *issues formal invitation*

musk seems to be setting the stage to not go through with the interview

But Musk, who recently sat down with Joe Rogan on an episode of his popular podcast, appears to be throwing cold water on an interview with Stewart, even after he accepted the challenge one week ago.

In recent posts on X, which Musk owns, he called “The Daily Show” host a “propagandist,” and claimed Stewart “used to be more bipartisan.”

 

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/ret...tp&cvid=e2d7ebf281824837aeb751a14f26b9ca&ei=9

Hundreds of Ogden, Utah IRS employees are expected to be laid off in the coming months, reports KUTV. The layoffs are part of President Donald Trump and DOGE's plan to slash federal spending by dramatically cutting the federal workforce.

One IRS employee, who spoke with KUTV without sharing his name, says he started at the IRS office just six months ago and had planned to retire from the agency one day.

“This was going to be my retirement plan,” he told reporters. “My wife is going to be fired too, so it’s going to affect my entire family.”

The recent announcement of significant layoffs at the IRS office in Ogden, Utah, has left many employees, including those nearing retirement, facing uncertainty about their financial futures. The Ogden facility, one of the nation's largest processing centers, is a cornerstone of the local economy.

 

[butters]

doge's gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now led by vought (project 2025), results in fraud charges against major banks dropped. Nothing to see here, move on...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) dropped its suit against JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), and Wells Fargo (WFC) on Tuesday over their handling of fraud on the peer-to-peer payments network Zelle.

The regulatory agency had alleged in its lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona in December under the Biden Administration, that failures to stop fraud perpetrated through Zelle by some of the nation’s largest banks resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for customers.

But President Trump and his administration are trying to gut the agency and have been dropping suits it filed under Biden left and right. They dismissed the Zelle suit “with prejudice” in a filing Tuesday, according to CNBC.

The decision appears to be part of acting CFPB Director Russell Vought’s mission to all but close the agency, which conducted mass firings last month. An employee union sued to stop the layoffs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth...p&cvid=84bffc5aab384bc086519dac6715875b&ei=29

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Jon Stewart agrees to Elon Musk's condition for 'Daily Show' interview: 'I am game'

after x-ers pushing for musk to go on Jon Stewart's show to respond to his 'tirade' against musk and doge, musk said he'd go on the Daily Show so long as the interview was aired unedited

Jon Stewart: fine, let's do it. That's how we normally do the in-studio interviews anyway! *issues formal invitation*

musk seems to be setting the stage to not go through with the interview

Musk is scared.