🚨🚨 Musk wants power to turn off the money:
“The sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually [and]…are responsible for distributing Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to government contractors and grant recipients and tax refunds”
“The sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually [and]…are responsible for distributing Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to government contractors and grant recipients and tax refunds”
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Marisa Kabas
Fed source to me: “It’s like a bank heist and the bank is America. Not really being hyperbolic to say control of those systems would allow an extremely fast collapse of the economy. Imagine it’s a plumbing system and someone takes a sledgehammer to the central pipe.”
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(I’m out of gift links until tomorrow.)
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahposner.bsky.social/post/3lh22ku5ybc22
Who's going to check? An Inspector General?