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ericlipton.nytimes.com • 120 days ago

This from Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Dem on Senate Finance Committee. https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lh5ejpwncc23

Reposted from Senator Ron Wyden

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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dancoopermedia.bsky.social•120 days ago

Why doesn't the Democratic party go directly to federal court to file lawsuits against these illegal actions?

cotu.bsky.social•120 days ago

This was widely being discussed on here yesterday… why has it take so long for MSM and politicians to acknowledge it?

marisaosorio.bsky.social•120 days ago

Eric, I hope this story will get the large font headline over six columns treatment in tomorrow’s newspaper that it deserves. This is a National emergency 🚨 🚨

lynndaniels.bsky.social•120 days ago

I’m sure his pearl clutching will go over like a led balloon! 😬

xxriotgrrrrrlxx.bsky.social•120 days ago

This isn’t a game. I really hope you do everything you can to convince your colleagues at NYT to start covering everything that is happening with the urgency it deserves. I think getting kicked out of the press room should be a clue that being nice to him gets you nowhere.

ericlipton.nytimes.com•120 days ago

We are all working 7 days a week. It is not a game. Dont even suggest that we see it this way.

justinfromdenver.bsky.social•119 days ago

I understand this wasn’t your beat and it’s not entirely fair to hang this albatross around your neck personally.

BUT, a whole lot of us sure would have liked to have seen accountability journalism BEFORE the election instead of a tone that normalized a horse race between two legit sides.

justinfromdenver.bsky.social•119 days ago

I appreciate your work and your willingness to respond to people here in good faith. But, as I’m sure you understand, there’s a lot of skepticism toward your paper right now after its political coverage seemed to learn nothing from 2016’s “but her emails” drama, and it’s not easy to win us back now.

xxriotgrrrrrlxx.bsky.social•120 days ago

I know you’re working hard. That’s not what I’m suggesting. Just please give this the coverage it deserves. That’s what I’m asking. People are very scared.

gwchilly.bsky.social•120 days ago

Mr. Lipton, are court injunctions coming? Any discussion?

augustthefirst.bsky.social•119 days ago

Its time to hang the orange man

mtnstrider.bsky.social•120 days ago

For IT people that understand, technically these people have been in there, apparently unaudited, for long enough that the entire system CANNOT be guaranteed for data or systems integrity. It should be treated like a ransomware attack until such time as a guaranteed backup is found.

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