This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed.
DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.
DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.
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“Musk came to Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws, ready to destroy the bureaucracy,” write Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. But as he winds down his service, “he has found himself isolated within the upper reaches of the Trump administration”: https://theatln.tc/ckySMUOS
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Josh Dawsey was her partner in all that, btw. He’s at WSJ now.
DOGE is a SCAM. And a grift. Know that, and it makes a lot more sense.
Some people used to like to claim that.
How do we get our data back, and prosecute him?
These people have been reporting on him for fifteen years. Haven't they noticed that pattern?
But what actually happened is far messier and darker.
DOGE was about the KGB. All of the other stuff had already happened, was already happening, or was Project 2025.
Just utter failures at their jobs.
Money appropriated, and agencies created, by past congresses can now just be cancelled
This is all illegal. But conservatives are at war w/the ppl and law; always have been.
Grifters gonna grift.
#TeslaTakedown
The US digital service was developed to improve people's experience on Government websites. DOGE took over and stole our data. DOGE must go away and bring back the US digital service.
(Rhetorical because I am aware that the answer is cravenness and the proximity of power and wealth. I still expect better though)
I hope she finds other work, because journalism is not what she's doing.
People are falling for this 💩?
Ambush of Ramaphosa by Trump was led by Musk.
Pre-visit, changed GROK to push "white genocide".
Feed Trump lies about supposed genocide to ambush Ramaphosa on live TV.
Musk's existence is smoke and mirrors.
One thing they are not--is credible journalists.
DOGE isn't catching fraud. They're committing fraud.
it makes sense they’d frame things the way they do here
I like that Repubs are openly owning their antisocial priorities, saying things like rape prevention are "liberal." when crime goes up bc no jobs that's on them
And they all—Still!—report to Elon. He is still running DOGE, in all but name, as we speak.
Oh, and Trump still loves him, personally.
He’s just making a kabuki show of “stepping back”.
Executive branch cannot appropriate money. Congress sets the spending limits not Musk.