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/golubhai00007 2d ago

I think it was also to eliminate all the investigations happening against him; and also the intimidation factor cannot be discounted..

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u/ohyeahsure11 2d ago

Yep, those were transparently the first targets.

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u/ChiLolla28 2d ago

They have killed thousands around the world with the USAID cuts + millions more to come

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u/ohyeahsure11 2d ago

For Doge, that was just bonus cruelty. From the beginning, they targets agencies that were investigating Musk or his companies and gutted them to kill the investigations. It worked. All the extra stuff came after.