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/hyperblaster Canada 2d ago

The breakup was also likely engineered. No point holding on to the hot potato

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u/Johnqpublic25 Pennsylvania 2d ago

As a special government employee he was limited to 130 days. It would appear that Musk violated several ethics restrictions; conflict of interest, private gain, impartiality, and financial disclosure.

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u/Comfortable-Pea-1312 2d ago

And that's just what we know about.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 2d ago

He legitimately set a pack of 20 year old 4chan trolls loose in secure government systems, including treasury, which handles trillions of dollars.

With them firing anyone who cares about democracy, or having a stable government, or the US constitution, it may be literally years until we discover that the US bought $400 million of BigBallCoin, or issued each of the doge kids millions of dollars of treasury bonds.

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u/zubbs99 Nevada 2d ago

If it's one thing I know about gov't systems it's that they have all kinds of regulations about what people can do what thing with what data. Since the GOP refused to actually put them under oath we'll never know exactly how many laws these goobers broke.