Like huh it’s almost as if this information is inconsistent with the government’s representations in court that Amy Gleason, not Musk, is in charge of DOGE, and that agency heads, not DOGE, are responsible for the cuts
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Maybe the law-knowers could explain why Clinton couldn't have Line Item Veto, but Elmo can stumble from his K-hole into a department and just fire thousands of folks.
DOGE isn't an official agency authorized by law, being led in action, if not title, by Elon Musk who's making staffing and budget decisions over the heads of Senate confirmed department heads - cabinet officers. His actions are therefore completely ILLEGAL.
Muskrat is now running the country. That’s all anyone needs to know. He bought Dump and controls everything now. Republicans have to call him…BECAUSE HE’S IN CHARGE! Do they all understand that now?
“Hi, this is Senator Cockburn. I’d like to exempt my open pit coal mine from the subsidy cuts.”
“Sure, let me check our rubric. Who do you think will be most affected by these cuts?”
Shouldn't you check which cuts to make before you make them rather than reversing "problematic cuts" afterwards? I thought this guy was supposed to be a genius
Also this new agreement bypasses congressional democrats. If I understand this correctly, republicans can call this hotline and have their pet projects saved, but not democrats? We are really losing our way here.
Does the $5M one-on-one meeting or $1M group meeting with Trump have to come before the phone call or can it come after? I'm not sure on the sequencing in this shakedown operation.
Grimes has to take to Twitter to get Musk to take care of his kid.
I'm sure Republican senators will have no problem getting in touch with Musk over DOGE concerns.
So in March, the illegal immigrant oligarch with his hands all over the gov't since Jan., *finally* figures out it's Congress who makes the laws in the US gov🤦
Genius😒
Oh oh! I have an answer for Sen Rounds: Congress stands up for itself and its Constitutionally granted governance and tells Elon Musk and his team of twats to Shove Off. and then, if POTUS makes a stink, as a co-equal power, tell him to also do his job within the limits of power or also Shove Off.
Answering the questions of Republicans (or giving them speaking points) in an informal setting… is not going to quell any of the problems boiling up around our nation. Not even close.
Musk assuaged some of Lindsey Grahams concerns. How? By telling him to shut up? Lindsey seems to be a pearl clutching gullible fool these days ala Susan Collins. And he thinks he’s still relevant. ETTD.
Representative Cole. Oklahoma has two Republican Senators. How things have changed over time and the success of RW propaganda in making the Democratic brand toxic, is that from 1965 to 1974, Fred Harris, at the time was the most liberal senator in the Senate, was from Oklahoma.
It’s because they lied or avoided, and now Elon is figuring out why things are the way they are and that he can’t just do drugs and give a talk and everyone claps and there are no consequences
Reporters be damned, I should get paid for offering balanced review of shoddy WH legal work
Why aren’t the courts holding the DOJ lawyers in contempt of court? Blocking any moves by DOGGIE until they have musk and the Senators state what was said
Musk isn't "making decisions". Rather, he has his hands on a computer algorithm, (instructions) that scouts out certain key words, numbers, etc. in the existing databases, while also using filters. We need to know WHO wrote that algorithm. And is it viable or not as a tool. Again, no transparency.
Republicans are dodging town halls and constituent calls, but are Dems even investigating?
They don’t need subpoenas; if they request Musk DOGE produce records and testify. how can they refuse without it being big news, with all the conflict of interest, corruption and criminality already.
Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma is a very intelligent and influential man. He’s head of the House Rules Committee. The people of Oklahoma would sure like him to stand up to Elon Musk. He shouldn’t have to worry about being primaried. Tinker AFB is in his district. Jesus do something.
So the head of the House Appropriations Committee wants an unelected guy who is not in charge of anything (so says the WH) to explain funding decisions. What a fucking ass.
Is this the only reason he met with them on Wednesday? Because the USAID TRO ruling came out this morning, and he realized he can’t get away with these slash-and-burn cuts?
Trumpski ran his first tenure and suffered losses bc his R assets were brought to court like Manafort, https://et.al., and since he loaded SCOTUS, thanked and shoulder slapped Roberts at the SOTU. I hope that all the people smarter than the rest of us have a plan.
One of the prices we pay for uncompetitive elections. Republicans implicitly are admitting that they don't want to control federal spending, the core responsibility of Congress. That admission would be enough, in a competitive race, to doom an incumbent. But very few voters will ever hear of this.
That's a big part of it, but there were lots of competitive elections, too.
The ignorance and apathy of the American public is at least as big a problem. I'm wondering what will happen when they start to feel the pain of Trump's action. Will they begin to understand that their votes matter?
This was always the DOGE plan. Defund stuff, fire people, etc. Then put GOP congress in a corner to ratify it. It's kinda obvious. Courts will then shrug. So Democrats can't vote for this, if the govt shuts down then Ok. If the GOP can pass it, they own it.
So he’s stolen, erased, stored megatrillions of data, ha randomly ruined the life of thousands of innocent Americans and now all this monstrous nonsense scamming will have the Congress Imprimatur
With Dems fanning little fans of protest 🪧
Senators can call but agencies saying ‘hi we can’t legally do hospital services without this contract’ when asked are ignored by people who have never gotten close to patient care
Straight up techno-nazi BS.
Musk's ill-informed, miscalculating AI did all those firing. Musk's inexperienced, vigilante tech crew oversaw the use of the AI. Musk owns what has been done to US federal work force since King Donald I began his latest reign of chaos.
What got me about the highlighted text is that the "members of Congress" are clearly only mean GOP. Likely, only favored GOP. And, based on how Trump operates, quid pro quo will be expected.
Not only does this prove Musk is in charge, also shows that GOP politicians have now set up a way to make cuts to the budget without going through the normal Congressional order.
They have essentially cut half the country’s representatives out of any government decisions.
A muskovite hotline to get 'problematic cuts reversed quickly'.
So redstate exemptions?
Sounds like more 10th amendment impeachment material, with a side of illegal impoundments, to me.
The whole thing is so ridiculous. Of course he’s in charge of DOGE. Why do people continue to believe BS when the truth is right in front of them? Also- don’t u think they should try not to make changes that need to be reversed immediately. Could they be more thoughtful about this? Total idiots.
Why is this happening? It doesn’t make any sense. It’s not legal. It’s not constitutional. Do Republicans not understand the long term consequences of giving Musk some of the powers of both the executive and the legislative branch? None of this is okay. And they’re just letting it happen?!
Someone should pass a law that makes it illegal to lie to a judge under oath. And then someone should pass another law to make it illegal to do things that are against the law.
"Thank you for calling the DOGE spending cut reversal hotline! Please listen carefully, our menu has changed. Please press 1 if you are a Republican Senator, 2 if you are a Republican Representative, 3 if you are a Democratic Senator, 4 if you are a Democratic Representative, or 5 if you are other."
"Which unit of this Cabinet Department is affected?"
Social Security
"Thank you, Representative! Our records show there are no spending cuts in this unit underway at this time. Your constituents may rest assured our website offers maximum transparency! Thank you for calling DOGE! Goodbye."
Some senators were given Musk’s phone number during Wednesday’s meeting, and the entrepreneur said he would “create a system where members of Congress can call some central group” to get problematic cuts reversed quickly, Sen. Lindsey Graham said
The Constitution demands immediate remove of the Trump administration and their co-conspirators for REBELLION and TREASON! Article 3 Section 3 and Title 18 Chapter 115 Section 2381 and 2383 could not be clearer. I break it down below!
So corrupt and as predicted. Cut everything, make people beg for scraps, hand them out only to those that pass the extreme loyalty test. This is exactly how autocrats gain power and control.
🤔 I wonder when you call this number, will you have to beg? Like there’s just a wheezing voice on the other end of the line urging you to state your case.
Yeah, no. We already have a system called Our Government. Congress needs to remove him from all powers asap. If they need protection, they must ask their local people who will gladly give it.
DOGE is Musk, Trump whisperer is Musk, Putin’s ace in the hole is Musk, and the GOP Banker is Musk (which is GOP Senators, congressmen, Cabinet Secretaries and the Supreme Court have sold out the USA to Musk and Trump)
Reverse the cuts? Based on who objects the loudest? How contemptible and destructive. These are people’s lives being impacted. And everyone knows it’s Musk that runs DOGE, but they do lie from time to time or continuously.
Or you know if you did things the right way and had professionals looking for efficiencies you wouldn’t be making problematic cuts in the first place. In fact, you wouldn’t be making very many cuts because every agency (save DOD) routinely passes independent audits. If there are some redundancies
you should first see if people can be shuffled around. Or simply don’t backfill certain positions as people quit, retire, or get promoted. There was absolutely no need for this mess. Other than Trump and Musk coming in out like a new manager who wants to change and break things to exert control.
And, off to court we go. The Republicans are shameful. They cower to Musk instead of asserting their Article I powers. They betray the American people & want to pretend they are standing up for constituents.
How do this and Trump's own words to this effect last night not lead to an immediate contempt ruling by the court who was given their (even at the time obviously) false representation?
A handful of Republican senators scheming with Musk on his federal government disassembly… yeah the whole situation keeps getting more appalling. Next you’ll tell me these are the GOP senators who spent the 4th of July in Moscow.
“But as Michael Corleone remarks to Kay — those favors aren’t for free. At some point the Godfather will expect, even demand a favor in return, especially from those that have the capacity to advance his interests… & if they don’t come across, they’ll see a different side of his father’s persona.”
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the favoritism implicit in this is higher than the moon. smdh.
Nice fucking work everyone
“Sure, let me check our rubric. Who do you think will be most affected by these cuts?”
I'm sure Republican senators will have no problem getting in touch with Musk over DOGE concerns.
Also keep calling your senators
Musk urged Congress to codify the cuts HIS GROUP is making UNILATERALLY, you say??
Genius😒
I can't believe anyone is suddenly concerned about little things like the constitution and laws now
I thought DOGE could only recommend cuts??
We all know Lindsey. Why are you still hiding?
What’s next? Is Trump going to hand over authority of the nuclear codes to Musk ?
WHO is running DOGE???
And why are you pretending that it’s not elon, GOP???
Reporters be damned, I should get paid for offering balanced review of shoddy WH legal work
🤷🏻♂️
They don’t need subpoenas; if they request Musk DOGE produce records and testify. how can they refuse without it being big news, with all the conflict of interest, corruption and criminality already.
Prior to the start of this term, a doge caucus was created by both the GOP House & Senate to assist Musk.
Why have GOP MoC not objected to the gross abuse of power? Seems painfully obvious, they are partners in this arson & coup.
Fuck him. Fuck them all.
🤔 I keep thinking dems will know what to do with this OPPORTUNITY....?
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278087/gov.uscourts.dcd.278087.1.0.pdf
Sounds like he’s scrambling for cover.
At some point, they'll say there's nothing they can do or they didn't know about it.
Constituents must not let them get away with this.
The ignorance and apathy of the American public is at least as big a problem. I'm wondering what will happen when they start to feel the pain of Trump's action. Will they begin to understand that their votes matter?
Come on, Congress! Why are you ceding your Article I powers to this yahoo?
With Dems fanning little fans of protest 🪧
All Dems should vote against.
Let the GOP own the destruction clearly.
Great system
Musk's ill-informed, miscalculating AI did all those firing. Musk's inexperienced, vigilante tech crew oversaw the use of the AI. Musk owns what has been done to US federal work force since King Donald I began his latest reign of chaos.
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html
These assholes act like they’re dealing with tweets instead of peoples lives and livelihoods!
The rich don’t care about the distinction
Thank you, ma'am.
They have essentially cut half the country’s representatives out of any government decisions.
The idea that people can call in and order budget items like take out food is completely insane.
It all completely illegal.
Don't you worry. You just come to me and I will make a call to my good friend Elon Musk and you got nothing to worry about.
See the cashier on your way out.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7ad7grtfxrmybroqi6dzl3k/post/3ljnoo5o7ck2w
So redstate exemptions?
Sounds like more 10th amendment impeachment material, with a side of illegal impoundments, to me.
Feds are prohibited from conducting govt work on personal devices. If Musk is using his personal cell for govt work - it’s another violation.
Don’t think Special Advisors are exempt.
"Thank you, Representative! Please speak the name of the Cabinet department affected by the cut you wish to bring to our attention."
Social Security
"Our records show there is no such Cabinet department. Thank you for calling. Goodbye."
[Dial Tone]
4
"Thank you, Representative! Please speak the name of the Cabinet department affected by the cut you wish to bring to our attention."
Health and Human Services
"Our records show there is no-"
4
"Thank you, Representative! Please speak the name of the Cabinet department affected by the cut you wish to bring to our attention."
DEPARTMENT of Health and Human Services
"Our records show--"
4
"Thank you, Representative! Please speak the name of the Cabinet department affected by the cut you wish to bring to our attention."
THE Department of Health and Human Services
"Thank you!"
Social Security
"Thank you, Representative! Our records show there are no spending cuts in this unit underway at this time. Your constituents may rest assured our website offers maximum transparency! Thank you for calling DOGE! Goodbye."
wealth.
(offer valid for Republican callers only).
https://bsky.app/profile/scooptown.bsky.social/post/3ljzu73wi7s2q
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ljpyyjzfis2l
Good info for us to trip them up
Republicans get things reversed by calling musk?
So what about the blue states who send the money and pay the bills.
I mean I get they’re also lying to the courts - but this is insane.
I do a favor
You owe me a favor
just like...
mobsters
"We don't need no stinkin' judges"