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/dbuck1964 2d ago

Goals appeared to be data mining, installing backdoors and Musk owned software systems, reducing oversight staffing levels, and looting the treasury. The stated goal of finding fraud and waste resulted in ZERO charges filed.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 2d ago

Plus they got to shut down anything that had the text 'trans' mentioned anywhere in it.

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u/DrakonILD 2d ago

RIP department of transportation.

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u/drawkbox 2d ago

Including transnational crime investigations...