Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. - FACT AND HERE'S WHY - because the administration admitted that this is exactly what they did. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/
Today Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press reported that yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see. The Trump administration put the officials on leave, and the DOGE team gained access to the information. - FACT AND HERE'S WHY - This is no secret now. https://www.doge.gov/, https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/02/19/doge-101-what-the-department-of-government-efficiency-means-for-you/, https://newrepublic.com/post/191100/elon-musk-security-clearance-sensitive-data
Their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran, and they have little to no experience in government. -FACT AND HERE'S WHY - Their names have been publicized numerous times and verified by the administration. https://www.newsweek.com/doge-list-staff-revealed-2029965, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html, https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
After Musk’s team breached the USAID computers, cybersecurity specialist Matthew Garrett posted: “Random computers being plugged into federal networks is obviously terrifying in terms of what data they're deliberately accessing, but it's also terrifying because it implies controls are being disabled—unmanaged systems should never have access to this data. -FACT AND HERE'S WHY - 21 D.O.G.E. staffers resigned their positions and reported that this is what was happening. and D.O.G.E admitted it https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5308095/doge-staff-resignations-elon-musk, mbc.edu/stories/is-doge-a-cybersecurity-threat-a-security-expert-explains-the-dangers-of-violating-protocols-and-regulations-that-protect-government-computer-systems/#:~:text=DOGE%20operatives%20are%20quickly%20developing,government%20IT%20systems%20are%20ongoing.
Sam Stein of The Bulwark, “the majority of staff in the legislative and public affairs bureau lost access to their emails, implying they’ve been put on admin leave although this was never communicated to them.” -FACT AND HERE'S WHY - It was highly publicized. https://apnews.com/article/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654,
Congress established USAID in 1961 to bring together the many different programs that were administering foreign aid. Focusing on long-term socioeconomic development, USAID has a budget of more than $50 billion, less than 1% of the U.S. annual budget. It is one of the largest aid agencies in the world. - FACT AND HERE'S WHY - www.developmentaid.org/news-stream/post/152125/a-brief-history-of-usaid
Musk is unelected, and it appears that DOGE has no legal authority. ‘Department of Government Efficiency,’ announced by Trump in a January 20th executive order, is not truly any sort of government department or agency, and even the executive order uses quotes in the title. It’s perfectly fine to have a marketing gimmick like this, but DOGE does not have power over established government agencies, and Musk has no role in government. It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup.” - FACT AND HERE'S WHY - Executive Order 14222 explains the establishment and mandate of D.O.G.E. and White House statements layout Musk's position https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/03/2025-03527/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative/
In fact, this is money appropriated by Congress, and its payment is required by law. Republican lawmakers have pushed government subsidies and grants toward religious organizations for years, and Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, where it operates senior living facilities. - FACT AND HERE'S WHY - Only congress has the authority to establish or dismantle government agencies and appropriate money https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution
Another is that Trump has declared a trade war with the top trading partners of the United States: Mexico, Canada, and China. Although his first administration negotiated the current trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, on Saturday Trump broke the terms of that treaty. -FACT AND HERE'S WHY - Well documented. https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-tariffs-on-imports-from-canada-mexico-and-china/
Trump inherited the best economy in the world from his predecessor, President Joe Biden, but on Friday, as soon as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump would levy the tariffs, the stock market plunged. - FACT AND HERE'S WHY - https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/mar/04/Biden-Trump-economy-who-did-better/
On Friday, James E. Dennehy of the FBI’s New York field office told his staff that they are “in a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy. -FACT AND HERE'S WHY - https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/james-dennehy-named-assistant-director-in-charge-of-the-new-york-field-officehttps://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/james-dennehy-named-assistant-director-in-charge-of-the-new-york-field-office, https://x.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1896700349320192191
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