Summary
Elon Musk allegedly installed an unauthorized server at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), gaining access to sensitive federal employee data, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, and medical histories.
Young, inexperienced staffers are reportedly using this access to target positions for removal, particularly DEI offices.
Security concerns have been raised, with fears of hacking and HIPAA violations.
Senior officials have been locked out of key systems, limiting oversight of DOGE’s actions, which could significantly impact the federal workforce.
Who is paying these new doge employees? Settling up a new department takes time, getting everything reviewed, approved then signed off. Until they are an offical government dept they wouldn’t have authority to do anything.
This admin does not care about rules, laws, preexisting norms, etc. Congress has decided they don’t care and have turned a blind eye.
At this point I just want there to be more transparency because some of what is being done needs to be done to some capacity, but we need to know what is being investigated, that they’re respecting our privacy laws, and the final decisions about funding and the future of departments need to be decided in part by Congress or a grandjury of some sort.
I’m all for simplifying and cutting cold war budget bloat, but this is not the way to do it and I guarantee this will blow up in our faces as Elon is way out of touch with what services the average American needs.
It’s hard to take their claims of balancing the budget seriously when at the same time there are even more proposals for tax cuts. You’d think if they are serious about cutting into the deficit they’d maintain taxes or increase them and reduce spending.
It does?
It does because our debt is exploding. In part because of Trump’s first term when he lowered taxes and increased spending. I believe that we have more than enough income to pay for better services, but the government is kneecapped by an incredible amount of bloat that needs to be cut out, things that do not serve the average American needs to go.
We’re in an extremely dire position as a nation and both parties refuse to acknowledge this and would rather just keep going bau. This is the closest we’ve ever come but it’s going to destroy the country in the process. We need experts to come in and tweak things, not idiots and interns with chainsaws.
This is why so many Americans are just quietly letting it happen, but I don’t think they realize quite how dangerous these type of reforms are. It’s all very exciting to them because they’ve been fantasizing about if for so long.
Save 2 trillion? Easier ways to do this by getting rid of loopholes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hVMghqarHY
We need both! More income and less spending. The amount of debt we carry is enormous and any other nation would default. If the dollar ever loses its status as the reserve currency and we never worked on lowering the deficit or making payments on our debt the entire country will be fucked beyond repair.
it was an already existing department, it was just renamed.
Looking at what they’re doing to other departments, do you think the pre-existing department continues in any meaningful way ?