Employees get paid. He's a special government intern. Violating internship guidelines to prevent abuse of power using unpaid interns in a 'special' way. Also these asshats were up in arms about 'Special Counsel' investigations being illegal like 2 weeks ago. We good with those again, or no?
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The richest man on the planet who once joked about ending world hunger is cutting federal spending of the richest and most powerful nation on the planet. Let that sink in for a moment.
Does that mean his communications will be subject to FOIA?
Fat chance. I read he brought in his own server and connected it to the network at the OMB to spam emails to federal employees. That seems highly illegal.
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Well, isn't that 'special'.
Aww, who's the specialist little boy in the government? Who is? Who is?
And yet the security in federal offices listen to him as if he was their commander. Those guards should be investigated and charged. Its their literal duty to disobey unlawful orders.
In fact he is the most special employee, and also a good boy. The best boy.
He is public enemy #1
And here I thought that was Trump's title.
I have to admit, president musk was not on my bingo card.
It's been on my Bingo card since I realized that he basically bankrolled Trump's campaign by himself. He set up a PAC just to win the election.
Not good enough.
Just because Trump declares him special doesn't mean he is, or that he should have special privileges, anymore than his moronic cabinet picks can start moving their shit into their offices before being confirmed by the Senate.
Oh no, this is one of those really fun powers we gave presidents a while back and forgot about. Presidents have a wide ranging authority to temporarily hire people and skip most of the ethics and oversight stuff that comes with normal federal hiring. The limitation is that it's only good for certain positions, which DOGE, (formerly USDS) is a part of.
They're proving that "act as if" really does work.
And being special doesn't excuse him from being a nazi.
He's only special in the short bus sense of special.
Let's be careful to not throw our differently abled friends under the bus by comparing them to Musk.
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But not an actual employee??
Well, he’s an illegal immigrant, so no not an actual employee.
Where's all the "But...but...Jack Smith wasn't legally appointed" people at?
I imagine that as a formality Musk's recommendations go past Trump, then to Russell Vought who is head of the OBM (office of management and business), and the actual official in charge of funding allocations.
I think congress is the actual official in charge of funding allocations.
Is that the appropriation bill that fills the annual budget? Would the OBM be more like, allocation of those funds? I don't know much about this stuff.
Would dems even have the votes to "shut down the government" that way? Is that in June/July?
He failed background check.