Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
www.nytimes.com
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
  • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
    18·
    11 hours ago

    Neo hitler is online, prepare to see the us get turned into naziland. Never though I would see that part of history life.

  • pelespirit
    14·
    12 hours ago

    When are the millionaires going to get pissed off enough to do something legally or did they just move to another country?

    • Hellinabucket@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 hours ago

      They don’t see the writing on the wall, if it protects the billionaires it must protect to millionaires. They don’t realize they’re days are only numbered slightly higher than the rest of us.

      • pelespirit
        4·
        11 hours ago

        That’s exactly it. Billions or a dictator are the only qualifications to get you a seat at the table. If you don’t have one of those, fight, flight, fawn or freeze.

    • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      11 hours ago

      Might be hard to love to another country if the airline industry is also destroyed, see his memo to FAA employees to just quit. You know, the group that is already very understaffed

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      16·
      12 hours ago

      Pretty much. There are a lot of ways this can go badly, from extracting peoples’ addresses for harassment, to not fulfilling congressionally-mandated contracts they disagree with, to simply handing himself money.