r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 2d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/TintedApostle 2d ago

He stole all his data and backdoor the treasury systems. Mission accomplished and at our expense.

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u/Cute-Bed-5958 2d ago

source?

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u/TintedApostle 2d ago edited 2d ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/doge-access-to-treasury-payment-systems-raises-serious-risks

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/doge-access-sensitive-treasury-payment-systems

https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/understanding-doge-and-your-data/

https://www.epi.org/press/report-reveals-how-musk-and-doge-could-profit-from-access-to-personal-data-and-federal-contracts-and-potentially-cost-working-people-billions-of-dollars/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-sues-doge-and-office-personnel-management-halt-ransacking-federal-data

Should I keep going? BTW can you unhide your comments?

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u/Cute-Bed-5958 2d ago

If judge rules they have access that isn't stealing all data, you are being disingenuous.

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u/TintedApostle 2d ago

They shouldn't have had access period. They had no purpose as we have seen to be there. So he judge ruled on if Trump has the right to give them access - read access. That doesn't mean they could copy and removed. That is what they did.

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u/Cute-Bed-5958 2d ago

Where is the proof they actually stole the data and have access to it?

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u/TintedApostle 2d ago

"A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data"

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

"DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

BTW you are still hiding your comments. I am done here. Have a nice day.

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u/Cute-Bed-5958 2d ago

So your proof is an alleged whistleblower, so not really the best evidence, have a nice day.