When this nation was strong we executed people for less than what this freak is doing.

Who the fuck even is this guy? No vetting process, no confirmation hearings, nothing.

And he's just given this kind of power?

This country is so very, very fucked. Thanks to donvict's base and a huge assist from the apathetic and the "bothsides" idiots.

It's time for Elon to go

Democrats, including Sen. Ron Wyden, raised alarms over Musk’s influence on federal funds. Treasury access concerns intensified after Trump ally Michael Flynn posted grant payments online.

That's funny, the only thing I get when I search for "Michael Flynn grant payments" are about payments Flynn received from the Russian government

He's not an employee of the Federal Government. This is completely illegal. And he's a psychopathic junkie so...

I thought we were agreed: Any Musk photo in news from now on is his Nazi salute.

Can we please send this fuckwit back to where he comes from? Like, the seventh circle of Hell?

There have been two court orders requiring that payments continue normally. It looks like Musk has decided that court orders do not bind him. It hasn't even been two weeks and already we're at the constitutional crisis?

Gee, there is no way Musk would abuse that power...

Like canceling grant payments to rival EV manufacturers

Democrats "raised alarms"? Gee thanks, that'll take care of it you pathetic wimps. Why haven't they brought an immediate case to the Supreme Court for an emergency ruling? A non-elected, non-nominated or confirmed by Senate (and we should of course note) immigrant has been given access to the United States Treasury. This is insane.

Mush is a terrorist.

So if he's acting as a government official doesn't he need to be confirmed by Congress?

So the country is now a dogecracy or is it still aan oligarchy? Does this count as a coup?

The world’s richest man, who bankrolled Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and was tasked by the president with running the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, boasted on his social media site X that he was “rapidly shutting down . . . illegal payments” after a list of grants to Lutheran organisations was posted online.

The threat came after Musk appeared to confirm on Saturday that DOGE had access to the Treasury system, which disperses trillions of dollars each year, including social security payments. 

He justified the move by claiming his team discovered “that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups”. 

The system has been run by career civil servants and the Treasury already has an in-house team tasked with identifying fraudulent payments. A source with knowledge of the situation said that DOGE representatives did not have the authority to cut payments, only to read the data.

Senator Ron Wyden, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said his office had been told that Treasury secretary Scott Bessent had granted DOGE “full” access to the system.

Lutherans!! Well, I’m glad Elmo Nazi shut that shit down! Who knows how long those shady Lutherans were growing fat off the Treasury’s ample, juicy teats!

Srs tho, omfg the batshit is everywhere.

I don’t understand. What’s apparently so heinous about Lutheran charities?