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You have allies in the State House who are going to fight back. Donald Trump wants to be a tyrant. Donald Trump is inspired, and he respects tyrants around the world because he wants to be just that. We have to fight back as a community and a nation to allow us to have a voice, not President Musk, not President Trump but the people have the voice of this country to fight back and defend democracy because we are not going to take it anymore."
Massachusetts Democratic state Senator Sal DiDomenico at the Boston protest last week Elon got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good if we agree with him, and it's only if we agree with him. Elon can't do and won't do anything without our approval. And we'll give him the approval where appropriate, and where not appropriate, we won't. Where we think there's a conflict, we won't let him go near it."
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House last week We have breaking news: Donald Trump has ceded control of the presidency to Elon Musk. President Musk will be attending a cabinet meeting tonight..."
Speaking as if in a news anchor's voice, Trump went on They do it all the time,
the US president says in excerpts posted Saturday from a Fox News interview to be aired Tuesday I used to think they were good at it,
The way to do this is not go in and break things,
said Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a fiscally conservative budget watchdog, who criticized the administration’s firing of more than a dozen federal inspectors general, who conduct nonpartisan oversight of agencies Waste is in the eye of the beholder — that’s a political issue,
said Bob Westbrooks, a former inspector general for the federal government during the Obama and first Trump administrations The tire has so many holes in it — you can’t fix it anymore,
said Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government, an anti-fraud company, who also testified before Congress on the issue this week But the examples they’re bringing are silly, made-for-TV red meat, made for people to be amazed and horrified and shocked,
Miller continued, pointing to some diversity, equity and inclusion-related arts projects on the White House’s list of objectionable U.S. Agency for International Development programs, some of which weren’t actually funded by the agency Elon Musk is saying we’ve got shocking amounts of fraud, and you’re right, we do. No one’s really cared until now,
said fraud prevention expert Linda Miller, a former senior staff member for Congress’ independent Government Accountability Office during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations There is absolutely waste, fraud and abuse, and there are improper payments, and there are inefficiencies,
said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, director of government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group There’s crazy things, like, just a cursory examination of Social Security and we’ve got people in there that are about 150 years old,
Musk said during a Wednesday press briefing Those are the people who should have been their allies. And instead, they’ve now alienated them,
People depend on government — government is super important, and nobody wants to be tortured with systems and processes,
We’re not going to do things that are to the detriment of American operational or tactical capabilities.”
On January 20, 2025, the next leader of the United States—and of the free world-assumes power,
We defer to the Department of Government Efficiency for comment on the release of information posted on DOGE.gov,
These 25-year-old programmers, I don’t think they have enough experience to know what they don’t know,
DOGE just posted secret NOFURN info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed,
said one Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation from senior leaders The people voted for major government reform, and that's what people are going to get,
