... but I'll go on. I'll find my way back to where I was going. Ah, yes. It was this:Fraud in the federal government is closer to 10% of disbursements, so more like ~$700 billion per year.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2025
Outright waste is at least 15%, so another trillion+ dollars.
Anyone who works in government knows this. https://t.co/P0622Wr2Y6
Mr. Musk... boasted on Saturday that his willingness to work weekends was a “superpower” that gave him an advantage over his adversary. The adversary he was referring to was the federal work force.
“Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend, so it’s like the opposing team just leaves the field for 2 days!” Mr. Musk posted on X....
The opposing team! "Aggressive Incursion" sounds like war. "Opposing team" — does he think this is just a game?
The historian Douglas Brinkley described Mr. Musk as a “lone ranger” with limitless running room. He noted that the billionaire was operating “beyond scrutiny,” saying: “There is not one single entity holding Musk accountable. It’s a harbinger of the destruction of our basic institutions.”
The "single entity" is Trump. One might say executive power is vested in a President of the United States of America. That has a certain ring. The NYT knows this and admits it in the very next bit:
Mr. Trump himself sounded a notably cautionary note on Monday, telling reporters: “Elon can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval. And we’ll give him the approval where appropriate, where not appropriate, we won’t. If there’s a conflict... then we won’t let him get near it.”
Why is that "a notably cautionary note"? It's just the obvious response to Brinkley's statement of alarm — "the destruction of our basic institutions." But the presidency is one of our basic institutions, and Trump is rebuilding it, using Musk.
Musk has his ways, and I think if he were working for a Democratic President, the NYT would find them charming, exciting, youthful, new, brilliant....
Workers in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which housed some operations for the United States Digital Service, arrived the day after Mr. Trump’s inauguration to find a sticky note with “DOGE” on a door to a suite once used as a work space for senior technologists at the agency.
A sticky note!
It was one of the first signs that Mr. Musk’s team had arrived. Inside, black backpacks were strewed about, and unfamiliar young men roamed the halls.... The quick takeover was similar to the playbook Mr. Musk has used in the private sector, where he has been a ruthless cost cutter, subscribing to the philosophy that it is better to cut too deeply and fix any problems that arise later....Seems like something in a movie.
At one point, Mr. Musk sought to sleep over in the White House residence. He sought and was granted an office in the West Wing but told people that it was too small. Since then, he has told friends he is reveling in the trappings of the opulent Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where he has worked some days. His team is staffed heavily by engineers — at least one as young as 19 — who have worked at his companies like X or SpaceX, but have little if any experience in government policy and are seeking security clearances....
And here's the last paragraph:
“The more I have gotten to know President Trump, the more I like him. Frankly, I love the guy,” Mr. Musk said in a live audio conversation on X early Monday morning. “This is our shot. This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have.”
Hand of cards. Another metaphor that suggests he thinks this is kind of a game. If it's a game, he plays it well. (Too well?) And he plays it on weekends and sleeps in the office. He surrounds himself with young men. Only young men can keep up. And here he is, the richest man in the world. Are we not to perceive him as the hero? The NYT is trying to frame it as villainy.
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This sounds like the plot of a movie Hollywood used to love to make.........now they're horrified it may actually happen in real life. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
$236,000,000,000 here, $700,000,000,000 there. Pretty soon, we’re talking real money.
"I'd read the article and thought of some idea of how to present it. "
How about, "Here's another batch of lies from the lying liars who always lie!"?
It is common to use sports metaphors to describe what's going on in business or politics. I thought it would be refreshing, and possibly more apt, to use sexual metaphors instead.
" "Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government......"
The funny part is, they're not really 'inside', and it's killing them. They're outside, looking in, taking reports from the besieged, who are their normal, go-to 'sources that requested to remain anonymous'. Delicious. Wouldn't it be hysterical if Elon's nerds started identifying who these 'anonymous sources' really are, as soon as the stories are published?
One of the many evil things to occur as a result of COVID - was even more government money laundering and waste.
No wonder the left are losing their minds.
In the novel "Das Boot" the German officers in the submarine services called the allies "the gentlemen of the other firm."
Yeah, fuck a buncha Swan and Maggie
Keep ‘em far away
h/t and APOLOGIES to Stephen Foster
Is he Batman with a group of Robin's? Or is he the Penguin with henchmen who wear shirts that say henchman.
It's amazing to me that Musk's revelation of paying almost $30 million dollars to a Chinese researcher working on coronaviruses, and who died as "patient zero" of COVID is not even a news story. Bastard murdered my mother!
“He noted that the billionaire was operating ‘beyond scrutiny’”
Except that he’s not. He’s letting all of us scrutinize his work. He’s showing us the hand he’s playing every day.
"Opposing team" — does he think this is just a game?
WOPR thinks it is.
"The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest, but the frogs die in earnest".
Quoth Barack: elections have consequences.
By that I mean that the US government funded the researcher who stitched HIV DNA and Moderna spike protein DNA into a bat virus that could not even infect humans, and created a virus that could no longer infect bats, why is this not a major story?
Because it would lend sympathy to what Trump is doing. Trump is my fucking hero now. I am starting to feel about him the way that commenters here wrongly said I did since he vanquished the Wicked Witch of Chapaqua.
Collective hysteric left:
""the destruction of our basic institutions.""
uh - Your corruption ignoring selves can F right off.
The dedicated democratic leftists at the NYT are notably absent when it comes to government fraud, abuse and waste - against the will of the American People.
Reliable Leftwinger Douglas Brinkley"It’s a harbinger of the destruction of our basic institutions.”
When did wasteful and fraudulent federal government payments become a basic role of government? USAID has funded the Left for decades and it is time to stop.
Our entire economy can change if Elon cuts the spending and our economy starts growing at 4-5% per year. Transformational.
Did they skim that from a Robert Ludlum spy novel? Is that Jason Bourne skulking about late a night?
Billionaries run the Democrat Party but you'd never know it from reading the NYTs or the DNC-MSM. But they're determined to make us all aware that Billionaire Musk is doing things and a "danger to the Republic".
I don't know why people don't mock and laugh at this hysterical "dial it up to 11/10" language the MSM and Democrats always use. At least they're not shouting that Trump is a "Nazi" or that "Democracy is in Danger" anymore.
Its always puzzle me as to what the average voter thinks of all this. Or whether stupid people actually take it at face value. Althouse and a few others push back, but mostly its just... silence. Partly its those are Right are stupid and don't understand propaganda or language.
The USAID expose will, I believe, eventually show that the invasion and subversion of the churches by the crazy left was directed and financed by taxpayer dollars. All the elements that characterize USAID subversion tactics abroad are evident in the subversion of the churches… the gay, feminist, trans stuff particularly.
Soros is/was the one "Beyond scurtiny (sic)". I can remember Fox News cutting off guests whenever they mentioned his name.
"A sticky note!"
The democrats would have spent $1,000 tax dollars on a hand-painted plaque.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwVEXGq1WN0
How many times has Maggie Haberman been sued for libel now??
There is no truth to the rumor that SpaceX's drone landing ships have been renamed L'etat, C'est Moi, This Is My Last Territorial Demand, and One Million Deaths Is a Statistic.
I’m ashamed of how much joy I get out of all of the caterwauling. Okay, I’m not really.
>"Opposing team" — does he think this is just a game?<
Well, yes he does - a very serious "game of thrones."
Backbone of the democrat party is waste, fraud, abuse and corruption.
Sprinkle some DEI BS, thought-crime and censorship.. with a dash of Masked wearing feds, ineptitude and vanity- and a Fauci fraud chaser. *liz Cheney for your moldy dessert.
The Left has two narratives now.
1. Trump is chaos and confusion.
2. Musk is the villain. He's the richest man in the world and he's out to destroy "our democracy." He's unaccountable. Not like how George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are unaccountable, but unaccountable to the Liberal Establishment.
The demonization of Trump has failed. So Musk is the new villain. One major problem with this is that the American public agree with Musk and Trump and Musk has X where he can push back. The MSM has lost its monopoly.
Alex Cohen @anothercohen
“If you’re more angry that a handful of 22 year old software engineers are writing code to uncover fraudulent government spending than at the people who are fraudulently spending your hard earned taxes, it’s time to do some soul searching.”
These people hardest hit.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+get+grants+from+the+government
Tank would say that an aggressive incursion is exactly what is necessary to MAGA.
Possible entire feminist/gay/trans craze of last 60 years manufactured by USAID.
Zrimsek, ref naming SoaceX ships: no one knows enough history to be offended by those titles. Maybe, maybe, he could get a rise by naming them the Mayflower, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria, Victory, Queen Anne’s Revenge, etc.
More likely, he would have to just unambiguously name them Colonizer, Conqueror, Pilgrim, Crusader, Civilizer, etc. Wow, a lot of C’s there. Maybe each type series can have its own letter.
JSM
I don't know about anybody else, but he's my fuckin' hero.
I just finished watching the long 6 hour version of this film. What an event!
Aggie,
I read over the weekend an email from an FBI "resister" (Anonymous of course) that Musk's team was being sneaky and deliberately inserting extra spaces and subtle misspellings into emails.
This is an old FBI trick and it allows the leaker to be identified. The resister recommended spell checking any email or document to be leaked.
I'll bet Musk's team already has a workaround.
John Henry
A few weeks ago, we were talking about Dave, where Kevin Kline as fake president brings in his personal accountant to find the money for first-lady Sigourney Weaver’s pet project.
That’s what I was picturing for DOGE—a group of miserly grizzled accountants going over the books looking for waste to cut. Why does DOGE need teenage tech nerds? What useful expertise do they bring?
I can't wait until the dishonoring maidens and boys stage begins.
... the meaning of "incursion" and the avoidance of its thesaurus roommate "coup"?
An incursion, necessarily, comes from outside. Whereas a coup comes, or at least appears to come, from the inside.
One of those young men, Luke Farritor, used AI to decode scorched scrolls that were burned by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD. He's got quite a brain.
I forget where I saw it last night, perhaps Insty, but someone commented that Musk has found a way to "weaponize autism".
I think one of the team members, perhaps the one still in college, was being disparaged as being too young. It turned out that when he was still in high school in Nebraska he broke the translation code of some ancient greek document that had stumped scholars for centuries.
But yeah, too young and inexperienced to look at govt code.
There is an old saying "Hire teenagers while they are still young enough to know everything." When people don't know what they don't know, or don't know something is impossible, they often figure it out coming up with genius solutions.
John Henry
Se my comment about Luke Farritor. He's smarter, and more intellectually agile than the old fogies hiding in USAID.
That's Luke Farritor.
In my travels around as a church musician, I’ve been surprised at how many Protestant ministers in the ultra-gay/trans/feminist denominations are ex-military of fairly high rank. USAID?
I was rooming with a submariner when the book came out. There is a large format picture book that went along with it. We had lots of interesting discussions about submarines and WWII around those books.
I remember a movie but normal length. What is this 6 hour epic you speak of? Where can I find it?
John Henry
Why does DOGE need teenage tech nerds? What useful expertise do they bring?
To quickly and affectively navigate and evaluate a complex avalanche of data.
"It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do."
DOGE is exposing fraud and waste on an astronomical scale, and Democrats are defending it. They're terrified.
Me too. Been my hero for a long, long, time.
John Henry
The problem is that traditional Republicans don't like big government and are prone to attempt instant agency elimination and self-defeating term limits. As such, they are easy to steamroll by those who want the programs and agencies. All it takes is enough enough leftists or moderates to vote for a program -- this has proven to be fairly easy to accomplish in bloated bureaucracies all around the world.
To exert effective control, Republicans must pinch their noses and stay in the swamp to clean it constantly. They must stay focused on the mission or they'll get sucked into the corrupt culture. Sewers and trash trucks must be emptied regularly, and then they get dirty once again.
Special executive auditor has the audacity to go where journalists once went to report the fleecing of Americans.
Point of pedantry:
Are incursion and coup synonymous? I don't think so. Not even nearly synonymous.
An incursion seems to me like it comes from outside. Russia invading Ukraine, for instance.
A coup seems like it is internal, one group taking power from another.
As for president Trump, he was democratically elected. Nobody has seriously questioned the results, though there are people on Bluesky trying. Musk and his team work under his authority.
How can it be a "coup" if he was elected in accord with laws and constitution?
John Henry
I fear that most of them don't understand or care to understand. They print what their paymasters tell them to print. The publish what gets eyeballs and makes profit -- some love to be fed comforting propaganda. Some love to attend churches every week and hear that Jesus is coming soon, soon, soon.
Everyone knew fraud and waste existed. Trump and Musk are just giving it a name. Those on the recipient end are pissed off the gravy train might come to and end. I'm sure many know what they have done is criminal. Just wait until Pam Bondi takes over the Justice Dept. Yeee-Ha!!!
The post or article that I saw seemed more upset that he was from Nebraska and University of Nebraska than about his age. How dare one of these hayseeds be smart?
John Henry
It'd be hard to distinguish between planned errors and routinely sloppy agency emails produced by staff with poor proofreading skills. I've literally seen several emails go out in a row with a mistake and separate recall. The errors are usually small things like wording, links, or spacing.
To quickly and affectively navigate and evaluate a complex avalanche of data.
Plus; they'll sleep in the office, pull all-nighters and work weekends like Elon does. Grizzled accountants won't do that. They want hour long lunches, not pizza brought in.
USAID = United States Agency for International Development. It has more to do with the State Department, Intelligence Community, and political objectives than the military.
The military is (1) huge, and (2) offers many upward career paths. I'm guessing you see many military people because they are the most common type of government employee.
The Left weaponized autism when they started blaming everything on young men. They have no one to blame but themselves.
This is so beyond my wildest dreams of what Trump might possibly accomplish in his remaining 4 years. Looks like he might get it all done in 4 months now and use the rest of the time to celebrate with us normals.
And it's not a game. It's definitely a war. Musk's Avengers are just shredding the Deep State's tunnel network and cash distribution and recirculation system to The Party. No wonder they're so hysterical. Their entire dirty infrastructure is being completely dismantled.
As long as it's moving from "the oppressors" to "the oppressed" the Dems have no problem. They're both philosophically incapable of stopping it and aghast that it might.
“ Joe Bar said...
I just finished watching the long 6 hour version of this film. What an event!”
What title is this? I feel like there is an inside joke at the kool kidz table.
What, exactly, is the “ideological stamp” Musk is trying to put on the federal government? These douchenozzles are confusing him with Soros. Turning off the cash flow at the money laundry isn’t ideological. He should invite whistleblowers back in.
The way Democrat Party members resist having the theft and waste of citizen's tax dollars exposed gives us an understanding of how Communist Party governments are able to survive for so long when the vast majority of their populations find living under their rule intolerable.
John Henry - the movie version was an edit of the German TV miniseries. You can buy it on Amazon. There are multiple versions, and a 2018 remake/sequel, so be careful. This link is to the uncut miniseries. https://www.amazon.com/Das-Boot-Original-Uncut-Miniseries/dp/B00IJZW3QW
"Is this just a game?" Not just a game, but Musk has often stated that he does things he has fun doing. I'm pretty sure he is enjoying the hell out of DOGE.
This is quite the challenge for Dems and the NYTimes. What is the appropriate pejorative slur for someone zealously trying to stop the government from spending money it does not have to do things government should not do? Predictably, they think ‘Fascist’ applies. Anti-fascist is closer. ‘Freedom fighter’ is accurate but fails as a pejorative slur.
The leftmediaswine apparently don’t realize that predictability is their likely death knell. If the NYT, for example, had a clue they would realize that Haberman’s byline signifies TDS and BS to normal people.
This will be a two front war soon. First, identify all of the organizations accepting USAID funds. Each disbursement required someone's approval. Second front is open release of the approving authority, including name, rank and serial number. We ain't seen chaos yet.
Musk has his ways, and I think if he were working for a Democratic President, the NYT would find them charming, exciting, youthful, new, brilliant....
Elon is brat!
"does he think this is just a game?"
Consider this like a trial. To the litigating parties, it is hugely important, perhaps life and death, vindication of their rights! To the attorneys, it is just another day at the office.
this:
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1886647920566636637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886647920566636637%7Ctwgr%5E92742d06a44ec53fa0800494b873104b93fa6ad3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F700369%2F
Why do they call him a "private individual"? Musk is an appointed SGE. From Wikipedia:
Under the federal law of the United States, the term "special Government employee" (SGE) refers to an advisor, expert or consultant who is appointed to work with federal government. The role of special Government employees is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 202.[a]
"This is an old FBI trick and it allows the leaker to be identified.. "
You can also hide text that's the same color as background, and won't appear at all unless you highlight all of the page to see it - and then it could be in a minuscule font. I'm sure there are other ways that can only be avoided by manually re-tying the text, and even then..... there are ways. If there is one thing you can't say about Elon Musk, it's that he's uninformed.
"It’s a harbinger of the destruction of our basic institutions."
I'm not sure I would characterize "funding of weapons training in Gaza after the October 7th attack on innocent Israeli citizens to be one of America's "basic institutions..."
This is basically the plot of the 2nd act of the movie "Dave". The double of the President brings in his accountant friend to analyze Federal Spending and free up money for something good while simplifying spending on bad programs.
One of the things that Taibbi and Kirn pointed out on their podcast last night, was that USAID is to some degree, a way for the intelligence services to get money to their foreign operatives in a dependable, clandestine way. And that some of these 'outrages' that we're hearing about are probably precisely that. As Taibbi pointed out, on foreign ground, when an operative gets into trouble, they'll show up at the US Embassy and ask for the USAID representative there. It's exciting to see the dark underbelly thrust into the light, and gratifying to see all the right oxen being gored, but it's also a good thing to remember that all oxen are not equal, and that our overseas exploits are not always for the public eye. I trust there's a good grasp of the need to differentiate within the efforts, just anticipating that once the 'trannie opera' complaints die out, and the rats cease scattering, there will be calls for moderation that are not completely rejectable. We're a long way from that, still, though.
Isn't the "game" language much preferable to "war" language? Or corporate jargon?
I don't feel upheaved.
USAID or other little known agencies and bureaus and programs are definitely important "basic institutions". They're like slush funds for leftist money laundering and we can do without them.
One more comment about Musk's Avenger's 20-somethings. No human can scan and analyze the federal budget and payments system in the brief time they've been at it. But AI coupled with specialized software agents can, and that's obviously what these guys are expert at and have the tech tools necessary to do it. We're seeing a financial forensic audit done before us in real time. Brilliant. More please.
Dude 1394, I believe they're talking about the epic WW II submariner film, "Das Boot."
Notice the silence of our leftist lambs?
I agree that USAID serves an intelligence function, but as we have seen over the past decade or so, our intelligence "services" have become the proverbial tail wagging the dog, and with little or no accountability, have gotten involved in domestic politics and have basically hijacked our democracy.
Zelensky is complaining that $100 billion of aid to his country has gone missing. Gee, how could a country that so fully embraced Joe Biden be that corrupt?
Mike Benz has stressed the point that people naturally think that USAID is an agency providing "aid" to poor countries, when it is in fact a spy and propaganda house.
A trillion dollars is an almost incomprehensible amount of money. Written in numbers, it's $1,000,000,000,000, or in scientific notation, $1 * 10^12. A million dollars is a lot of money to most people. A million dollars is $1,000,000, or $1 * 10^6. If you gave $1,000,000 to 1,000,000 people, that would be a trillion dollars. That's not even the full amount of the fraud, waste, and abuse in the budget each year. It's a massive rip off of taxpayer money, and of course the people who're benefiting from this are really upset that someone is trying to stop their grift.
OK, I might not be able to take this anymore. Barrack Obama's mother, and the grandmother who raised him worked for the CIA through USAID. Yikes.
I want a black backpack like the Musk-a-tiers have.
The Congressional bartender is spewing " @elonmusk "is one of the most unintelligent billionaires I’ve ever seen". He isn't going to date her, no matter how much she drools over him..
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1886772435497730516
Wouldn’t surprise me if the DOGE analysts un-cover some RINO names in on the USAID grift. That info could be used (and may already be being used) as behind the scenes leverage on reluctant Republicans Senators during confirmation hearings and votes.
She sure says 'Umm' a lot, for someone that's calling the world's richest man 'unintelligent'.
I have no problem letting young geniuses root out fraud and waste.
Four years ago AI wasn’t ready for this task. One more reason that Trump 2.0 is ready to deliver. The government is nothing if not full of data and paper trails. This is just the beginning.
Four years ago AI wasn’t ready for this task. One more reason that Trump 2.0 is ready to deliver. The government is nothing if not full of data and paper trails. This is just the beginning.
I'm not sure why everyone is so excited. The money flow hasn't been cut off yet.
That is a certainty.
I am delighted that this process is happening; it's an audit of government spending by an independent third party. Doing the work that oversight committees can't or won't.
First question: "Where are the funds going?"
Second question: "Why"
Third question: "Is it legitimate?"
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to root out entrenched graft.
“USAID EXPOSED: The Single Largest Criminal Fraud Operation in Human History
The public’s outrage over USAID corruption is now at scale and mainstream. USAID has been fully exposed as a left-wing money laundering criminal organization. Here’s what our researchers were able to find when looking into their expenditures and why President Trump and Elon Musk must shut it down:
- Haiti: Post-2010 earthquake, $1.14 billion was spent on a port and power plant project promoted by President Bill Clinton. The project never built anything.
- Cuba: A 2006 audit showed $74 million in “democracy promotion” funds vanished without oversight.
- Afghanistan: Millions squandered on health scams; hospitals never built.
- Nigeria: Chemonics, a major USAID contractor, was linked to a subcontractor's overbilling scandal. Hundreds of millions lost.
- COVID 19 Funding: USAID sent over $40MILLION in taxpayer money to a scientist located in Wuhan to do gain of function mutations. This directly led to the creation and release of COVID-19
- $2.5 MILLION to DEI in Serbia
- $70,000 onan Irish DEI musical
- $47,000 on transgender operas in Colombia
- $32,000 on a trans comic book in Peru
- Iraq: $20M for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street to promote LGBTQ Agenda
- Egypt & Tunisia: $56M for “tourism”
- Jordan: $40M for “schools”
- Vietnam: $11M to fight “trash burning”
- Central America: $27M for deportee gift bags.
- Trump Lawfare: $27M to fund left wing prosecutions of populist political opponents around the globe, including Donald Trump. Patently illegal.
And countless billions more.
Here’s the thing: The majority of this money never went to the “projects” they claim to be promoting. It’s just pure money laundering from your tax dollars into deep state left wing activists. USAID is likely the largest fraud operation in human history.
Trump and Elon are ending it. Watch who cries the hardest about it — they’re the true criminals.”
—— Benny Johnson
To teh guillotines!
Sen. Lindsey Graham please pick up the white courtesy phone.
40 trillion dollars can buy you a lot of free stuff with renewable benefits.
Part of the problem with USAID and NGOs is they're measure their success by the amount of money spent, not the results garnered from the expenditures. I remember when Bill Gates set up his foundation to provide vaccines to poor people in Africa. He told the NGOs that he was going to base funding on the results. They were shocked at such a notion. "Just give us your money, and we will spend it." was their MO.
While the thought is in my mind and without having read other comments which I may merely repeat, let me say, apropos of "the opposing team! "Aggressive Incursion" sounds like war. "Opposing team" — does he think this is just a game?" - I am certain Musk does not view this as a game, but one of move and counter move, cat and mouse, seek and hide. He moves and they try to hide the marbles, his team investigates and they move the files, ...
What is Musk going t0o do with all the staplers he is collecting?
The ONE THING the federal government needs more than anything else is capable IT programs. Their computer systems can literally be decades out of date, and they don't talk to each other. Contracts go to a low bidder or someone on the qualified vendor list, and many final products are terrible. I once watched a presentation by an IT manager on cybersecurity, and he would literally spout sentences with a dozen acronyms in a row. The government has mountains upon mountains of IT regulations.
Musk may well transform the government with only some world-class data people (to include qualified IT managers). Many, many, many federal jobs would not be needed with better IT. But, the Capitol Hill swamp creatures love to fund these positions and to have some "urgent" but unsolvable issues to campaign on year after year.
It does seem so, but waste is always in the eye of the beholder. Many Democrats sincerely believe in DEI programs and green programs and in giving birth control/abortions to groups that they do not want to grow larger. Also, beware of errors and misinterpretations -- many legimate programs have weird names.
Fraud -- yeah, get rid of it.
With hindsight, Trump was unprepared for this structured effort in 2020. He'll likely accomplish far more today than if he'd continued smoothly along as President. The Democrats would have continued their petty lawfare and not have seen Biden's many failures.
Hoisted on their own petard, Democrats are.
I’m still haunted by that hairy piece of pig…
Has someone asked Grok if it has access to social security data?
Aggressive Incursion (AI)? Automated Intelligence (AI)? Arbitrary Intervention (AI)? They claim to be using Anthropogenic Intelligence (AI) that can, among other things, discern between a baby and a "burden", a carbon pollutant.
What would Guac say?
The usual suspects are keeping their heads down hoping the angel of efficiency passes them by.
"It turned out that when he was still in high school in Nebraska he broke the translation code of some ancient greek document that had stumped scholars for centuries."
How can that be? Everybody knows boys are idiots and it's girls who are the smart ones.
14 reporters worked on this story. Yet this can’t possibly be the real story. They interviewed 36 people - that’s 3 per reporter. Just like the government bureaucrats, they must not work on weekends. Doesn’t it stretch credulity to advance the notion that Musk came in and just happened to stumble on USAID? That was the target all along. The Trump team pointed him right at it. The real story is all the prep that was going on these past 4 years. Someday that story will be told. Or maybe not. Just like with Liberty Valence, the glamorous story makes for better reading.
I'm not looking, not really, but it seems like there are very few politicians -- Representatives and Senators -- who are rushing to the defense of USAID.
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