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#ElonMusk’s associates already sought access to records that are typically closely held across the federal #government, prompting disputes w/senior officials across numerous #FederalAgencies. The highest-ranking civil servant at the #Treasury Dept recently resigned after refusing to grant #DOGE access to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which manages >$5R in annual payments.
#law #privacy #Trump #InfoSec #PersonalFinance
#law #privacy #Trump #InfoSec #PersonalFinance
Elon Musk's #DOGE has worked quickly to cut federal agencies. Here's a list of what's been targeted so far.
https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-targeted-list-2025-2
#NASA
Dept of #Education
US Agency for International Development ( #USAID)
Federal Aviation Administration ( #FAA)
#Treasury Dept
Federal Emergency Management Agency ( #FEMA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( #CFPB)
the federal workforce
and #DEI initiatives.
#Musk #Coup #Government #News #US
https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-targeted-list-2025-2
#NASA
Dept of #Education
US Agency for International Development ( #USAID)
Federal Aviation Administration ( #FAA)
#Treasury Dept
Federal Emergency Management Agency ( #FEMA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( #CFPB)
the federal workforce
and #DEI initiatives.
#Musk #Coup #Government #News #US
The federal agencies Musk's DOGE has targeted so far
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has targeted federal agencies like USAID, CFPB, and NOAA to reduce government spending.Grace Eliza Goodwin (Business Insider)
Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO
...DOGE’s Tom Krause is “currently” the CEO of the Cloud Software Group...
https://www.wired.com/story/musk-krause-treasury-bfs-conflict-of-interest/
"That role was previously occupied by David Lebryk, who resigned after refusing to allow Musk’s... #DOGE access to sensitive systems w/in the #Treasury Department...
Krause retaining his job in addition to serving in the #government... a massive conflict of interest."
#Musk #Corruption #Coup #USPol #News #US #USA
...DOGE’s Tom Krause is “currently” the CEO of the Cloud Software Group...
https://www.wired.com/story/musk-krause-treasury-bfs-conflict-of-interest/
"That role was previously occupied by David Lebryk, who resigned after refusing to allow Musk’s... #DOGE access to sensitive systems w/in the #Treasury Department...
Krause retaining his job in addition to serving in the #government... a massive conflict of interest."
#Musk #Corruption #Coup #USPol #News #US #USA
US Judge Extends Order to Block #DOGE From Treasury Department Data
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the #data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the #US Treasury Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-treasury-department-data-access-denied/
"When Vargas asked... the #DOJ attorney representing #Trump... whether any DOGE-accessed information had been shared outside of the #Treasury Department, he said: “The short answer on that is we don’t presently know.”"
#Musk #Coup #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #USA
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the #data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the #US Treasury Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-treasury-department-data-access-denied/
"When Vargas asked... the #DOJ attorney representing #Trump... whether any DOGE-accessed information had been shared outside of the #Treasury Department, he said: “The short answer on that is we don’t presently know.”"
#Musk #Coup #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #USA
Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Musk’s Team From Treasury Systems
...A hearing is set for Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/nyregion/trump-doge-treasury-elon-musk.html
Members of Musk’s so-called Dept of Government Efficiency, which is not actually a department, have been combing through the databases to find expenditures to cut. The #lawsuit says the initiative challenges the Constitution’s separation of powers, under which #Congress determines #government spending."
#Musk #Coup #Doge #Treasury #Law #Politics #Trump #News #USA
...A hearing is set for Friday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/nyregion/trump-doge-treasury-elon-musk.html
Members of Musk’s so-called Dept of Government Efficiency, which is not actually a department, have been combing through the databases to find expenditures to cut. The #lawsuit says the initiative challenges the Constitution’s separation of powers, under which #Congress determines #government spending."
#Musk #Coup #Doge #Treasury #Law #Politics #Trump #News #USA
Constitutional Crisis: Trump Admin Hints It Will Ignore Judge’s Ruling to Block Musk from Treasury Records
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/10/headlines/constitutional_crisis_trump_admin_hints_it_will_ignore_judges_ruling_to_block_musk_from_treasury_records
"Vice President JD Vance responded to the ruling by writing on social media that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” Elon Musk also called for the judge to be impeached."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #JDVance #Trump #Politics #RuleOfLaw #Law #Treasury #ConstitutionalCrisis #News #US #USNews
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/10/headlines/constitutional_crisis_trump_admin_hints_it_will_ignore_judges_ruling_to_block_musk_from_treasury_records
"Vice President JD Vance responded to the ruling by writing on social media that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” Elon Musk also called for the judge to be impeached."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #JDVance #Trump #Politics #RuleOfLaw #Law #Treasury #ConstitutionalCrisis #News #US #USNews
Constitutional Crisis: Trump Admin Hints It Will Ignore Judge’s Ruling to Block Musk from Treasury Records
The Trump administration is giving hints it may ignore a federal judge’s ruling restricting Elon Musk and his associates in DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, from accessing the Treasury Department’s critical payment systems.Democracy Now!
Pennies are out. Hold onto what you got.
"Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-penny-treasury-mint-192e3b9ad9891d50e7014997653051ba
#coins #Trump #mint #pennies #treasury #press
"Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-penny-treasury-mint-192e3b9ad9891d50e7014997653051ba
#coins #Trump #mint #pennies #treasury #press
Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.JILL COLVIN (AP News)
…The records maintained by the Office of Personnel Management, #OPM, amount to a repository of sensitive info about employees of most #FederalAgencies — including addresses, demographic profiles, salary details & disciplinary histories. The moves at the OPM by members of #ElonMusk’s pseudo-governmental DOGE have coincided w/similar efforts to gain access to sensitive systems at other agencies, including a #Treasury Dept system responsible for processing trillions of dollars in US govt payments…
*Agents* of #billionaire #ElonMusk’s #DOGE have gained access to highly restricted government records on millions of federal employees — including #Treasury & #State Dept officials in sensitive #security positions — as part of a broader effort to wrest control over the government’s main personnel agency, according to 4 US officials with direct knowledge of the developments.
#law #USpol #NationalSecurity #Trump #TrumpCoup
#law #USpol #NationalSecurity #Trump #TrumpCoup
Oh, I'm sure this ends well.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-treasury-access
'It's a Coup': Musk's DOGE Granted Access to Treasury System That Pays Out Social Security
"In an op-ed published by MSNBC on Saturday, Owens went into greater detail about her concerns, outlining three reasons why Musk might want access to the Treasury payment system.
He could use it to stop payments to certain programs in order to work around the courts' block on the administration's spending freeze. He could access the list of blacklisted federal contractors in order to boost his own or his friend's companies and harm his competitors. (One of the DOGE allies granted access to the payment system, Tom Krause, is also a Big Tech CEO who leads Cloud Software Group, according to The New York Times.) He could use it to reduce Social Security or Medicare payments as part of DOGE's goal of cutting $2 trillion in federal spending.
Owens noted that Musk wasn't "chasing these cuts for their own sake. He's helping congressional Republicans attempt to pay for a new round of tax breaks for corporations and the ultrawealthy—including Musk himself."
"It's nice to believe in a fantasy in which Musk and DOGE work alongside civil servants to improve technology and services for Americans and save a few bucks along the way. But all evidence points to the contrary," Owens continued. "The richest man in the world, whom no one elected to any government position, is seeking unprecedented access to confidential information, including information pertaining to his own business interests, and seems hell-bent on cutting off as much funding as possible for the programs that matter to the rest of us."
I mean if I'm being honest, I don't think Owens criticisms or predictions of potential disaster go far enough. Yes, it's bad enough that a billionaire Afrikaner who literally believes billions of people are useless eaters who can and should be sacrificed for the goals of creating billions of "artificial minds" and escaping to Mars after rich people have burnt the planet to the crisp, has his fingers inside the payment system that supports America's most vulnerable people, and sure it's not at all good that Musk has access to information he can use to make himself even richer. But as long as you're committed to not actually calling Elon on a fascist, it's hard to understand the scope of what's just occurred here.
For starters, there probably isn't a more identifying clutch of sensitive personal information than the Treasury Department payment system; Musk, a literal billionaire nazi supervillain, now has more personal information on the political enemies of the American fascist movement (read: anyone who isn't going for this Pork Reich bullshit) than the fucking FBI and we know for a fact he's a vindictive little fash muppet who absolutely delights in targeting people who criticize or oppose his frankly quite unhinged agenda. If Musk/Trump/America First want to target, detain, or even eliminate whole swathes of their political enemies and people the fash think shouldn't exist, they now have access to more than enough information to start rounding folks up and conducting political purges.
Furthermore, and while this might not be "news" to folks who've been closely following this fascist movement and Musk's (successful) attempts to buy it, this makes it absolutely clear that the guy running this shitshow isn't an elected official at all - it's Musk. The fact is, a government is at its heart, a system of taxation and spending; if Musk and his allies in the tech industry now have their hands on the purse strings (and all the juicy data that entails) they are in all reasonable sense of the words, in charge of the government. Trump might have "won" an election in a rigged oligarchy, but the fascist wearing the pants in this arrangement is very clearly Elon Musk; a guy in a fascist death cult, who can't run a social media company, builds cars that burst into flames, and wants to eliminate vast portions of the media because they make fun of him for being the most divorced man ever.
Given all that, I am once again asking my fellow Americans if they're sincerely planning to just let this all happen for four years on the off chance a party full of collaborators wholly owned by the same rich people that own Trump, may win a potentially hypothetical election in a rigged oligarchy. Or, are you ready to start becoming ungovernable and shut this shit down, knowing that there will be personal costs involved, the fascist police state will respond with violence, and the liberal establishment which is openly musing that they're happy to let you suffer under authoritarianism to teach you a lesson about not voting for them, will be of no assistance whatsoever and in fact will likely help the fash punish you.
The choice is yours, and it's not a good one; but I still hope you choose wisely.
#USPol #Fascism #Treasury #Musk #Trump #SocialSecurity #PoliceState #Coup #PorkReich #AmerikanMusik
https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-treasury-access
'It's a Coup': Musk's DOGE Granted Access to Treasury System That Pays Out Social Security
"In an op-ed published by MSNBC on Saturday, Owens went into greater detail about her concerns, outlining three reasons why Musk might want access to the Treasury payment system.
He could use it to stop payments to certain programs in order to work around the courts' block on the administration's spending freeze. He could access the list of blacklisted federal contractors in order to boost his own or his friend's companies and harm his competitors. (One of the DOGE allies granted access to the payment system, Tom Krause, is also a Big Tech CEO who leads Cloud Software Group, according to The New York Times.) He could use it to reduce Social Security or Medicare payments as part of DOGE's goal of cutting $2 trillion in federal spending.
Owens noted that Musk wasn't "chasing these cuts for their own sake. He's helping congressional Republicans attempt to pay for a new round of tax breaks for corporations and the ultrawealthy—including Musk himself."
"It's nice to believe in a fantasy in which Musk and DOGE work alongside civil servants to improve technology and services for Americans and save a few bucks along the way. But all evidence points to the contrary," Owens continued. "The richest man in the world, whom no one elected to any government position, is seeking unprecedented access to confidential information, including information pertaining to his own business interests, and seems hell-bent on cutting off as much funding as possible for the programs that matter to the rest of us."
I mean if I'm being honest, I don't think Owens criticisms or predictions of potential disaster go far enough. Yes, it's bad enough that a billionaire Afrikaner who literally believes billions of people are useless eaters who can and should be sacrificed for the goals of creating billions of "artificial minds" and escaping to Mars after rich people have burnt the planet to the crisp, has his fingers inside the payment system that supports America's most vulnerable people, and sure it's not at all good that Musk has access to information he can use to make himself even richer. But as long as you're committed to not actually calling Elon on a fascist, it's hard to understand the scope of what's just occurred here.
For starters, there probably isn't a more identifying clutch of sensitive personal information than the Treasury Department payment system; Musk, a literal billionaire nazi supervillain, now has more personal information on the political enemies of the American fascist movement (read: anyone who isn't going for this Pork Reich bullshit) than the fucking FBI and we know for a fact he's a vindictive little fash muppet who absolutely delights in targeting people who criticize or oppose his frankly quite unhinged agenda. If Musk/Trump/America First want to target, detain, or even eliminate whole swathes of their political enemies and people the fash think shouldn't exist, they now have access to more than enough information to start rounding folks up and conducting political purges.
Furthermore, and while this might not be "news" to folks who've been closely following this fascist movement and Musk's (successful) attempts to buy it, this makes it absolutely clear that the guy running this shitshow isn't an elected official at all - it's Musk. The fact is, a government is at its heart, a system of taxation and spending; if Musk and his allies in the tech industry now have their hands on the purse strings (and all the juicy data that entails) they are in all reasonable sense of the words, in charge of the government. Trump might have "won" an election in a rigged oligarchy, but the fascist wearing the pants in this arrangement is very clearly Elon Musk; a guy in a fascist death cult, who can't run a social media company, builds cars that burst into flames, and wants to eliminate vast portions of the media because they make fun of him for being the most divorced man ever.
Given all that, I am once again asking my fellow Americans if they're sincerely planning to just let this all happen for four years on the off chance a party full of collaborators wholly owned by the same rich people that own Trump, may win a potentially hypothetical election in a rigged oligarchy. Or, are you ready to start becoming ungovernable and shut this shit down, knowing that there will be personal costs involved, the fascist police state will respond with violence, and the liberal establishment which is openly musing that they're happy to let you suffer under authoritarianism to teach you a lesson about not voting for them, will be of no assistance whatsoever and in fact will likely help the fash punish you.
The choice is yours, and it's not a good one; but I still hope you choose wisely.
#USPol #Fascism #Treasury #Musk #Trump #SocialSecurity #PoliceState #Coup #PorkReich #AmerikanMusik
'It's a Coup': Musk's DOGE Granted Access to Treasury System That Pays Out Social Security
"I can think of no good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law would need access to these sensitive, mission-critical systems," Sen. Ron Wyden said.oliviarosane (Common Dreams)