@jeffstein.bsky.social and WaPo broke this yesterday. NYT advances. This is indescribably bad. “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02... - ThreadSky

kairyssdal.bsky.social • 89 days ago

@jeffstein.bsky.social and WaPo broke this yesterday. NYT advances.

This is indescribably bad.

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/01/us/trump-tariffs-news/treasury-department-payments-system?smid=url-share

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jordanknash.bsky.social•89 days ago

Why aren't our Representatives losing their shit and demanding answers! I have emailed my representative and senator. You should too. It's really all we can do right now.

nova123.bsky.social•89 days ago

This. Is. A. #coup

letsbepurple.bsky.social•89 days ago

Fucking a

genxjennifer.bsky.social•89 days ago

It was difficult listening to your NPR podcast in the run up to the election because of all the nonchalance & bemusement. They behave exactly as Project 2025 promised.

lb1025.bsky.social•89 days ago

WOW!!! We are so fucked!!!

psa-nderson.bsky.social•89 days ago

Handing over the keys to the vault ( or the liquor cabinet - sorry Pete ) should not be the way things work here.
WHAT THE HECK WAS HE THINKING ?
or
WHY WAS HE NOT THINKING ?
or
MAYBE THERE'S A QUID PRO QUO WRAPPED UP IN HERE LIKE A WEEK-OLD MACKEREL ?

jimcashel.bsky.social•89 days ago

What next? DOGE demanding the Pentagon hand over the nuclear codes?

fishgirl66.bsky.social•89 days ago

So scary

cpckqueen.bsky.social•89 days ago

medicare and social security payments bye bye, correct?

ukanarchist.bsky.social•88 days ago

Trouble is you cannot explain things to people who think that being called uneducated is a compliment.

burshu.bsky.social•89 days ago

This country turned over the keys to thieves and mobsters in suits and ties.

goodcitizen.bsky.social•89 days ago

It’s bad. very, very bad

tucsonpam.bsky.social•89 days ago

Can anything be done?

experimental22.bsky.social•89 days ago

Unknown private citizens are accessing and controlling critical federal government systems. Actually, we don't know if they are citizens. Or if they have security clearances. Or if they're criminals. Or what their purpose is.

jamesds.bsky.social•89 days ago

Muskrat is a criminal

esquiver.bsky.social•89 days ago

Why does the NYT focus on the irrelevant descriptor of Musk’s
wealth and not enough on his being a private citizen who has no government job or fucking authority? If it isn’t a coup, it sure as hell is a heist.

longislandtonv.bsky.social•89 days ago

Because they are doing their level f*cking best to one up the Daily Mail.

zivamom0130.bsky.social•89 days ago

Horrible treason to the people of the USA..

jackpondit.bsky.social•89 days ago

Did the New York Times mention that it is completely illegal? No one voted for a drug addled foreign billionaire to worm his way into our government’s inner workings and start breaking things.

demdifference.bsky.social•89 days ago

Trump: Betraying the American people and making them less safe to corruptly enrich himself and Elon.

And this comes on heels of freezing job-creating projects funded by Infrastructure Act, gutting aviation safety committee, and compounding egg-price spike by hampering efforts to fight bird flu.

twit2.bsky.social•89 days ago

peregrinamom-sandy.bsky.social•89 days ago

We are so screwed!

disgustednewsguy.bsky.social•89 days ago

So Musk has all the private data, including bank account numbers. They are going to run some algorithm declaring people as frauds, then grab that money for Trump's use.

shawnconnery.bsky.social•89 days ago

+ @marisakabas.bsky.social

marisakabas.bsky.social•89 days ago

updating my story now

michelemanos.bsky.social•89 days ago

Money is power, correct? So, they have handed control of Treasury (essential to all of government) to Musk. How is this not a coup? How is this happening. Seems beyond bad!

jooltman.bsky.social•89 days ago

And my senator (Gillibrand) voted to confirm this Secretary. What does he have on her, I wonder?

garthtoons.bsky.social•89 days ago

Agreed.

alijolau.bsky.social•89 days ago

Unbelievably bad!

andrewhazlett.bsky.social•89 days ago

Here's Tom Krause, the CEO of Cloud Software Group. He can now examine your personal financial information. Do you think Krause and his colleagues have any oversight? Are they respecting business confidentiality? Recusing themselves from conflicts of interest? Respecting privacy, government ethics?

andrewhazlett.bsky.social•89 days ago

@kairyssdal.bsky.social perhaps some business journalists could pose some questions to Krause and colleagues? https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-h-krause/
https://www.cloud.com/leadership

okanenas.bsky.social•89 days ago

So really the Dictator is Musk!

jaagibs.bsky.social•89 days ago

Any shenanigans require people that know how the systems work on the user and IT side. But as we've seen with Twitter, musk is capable of breaking things. If they set this fire, it will consume them as well.

nevadajones.bsky.social•89 days ago

Whether they're planning on looting the Treasury or cutting off payments to employees or creditors (or both), this is the takeover. This is how the U.S. government breaks. This is part of their coup d'état.

bhashakids.bsky.social•89 days ago

Literally letting the foxes into the henhouse

kcarey4116.bsky.social•89 days ago

Stupid fuck has NO BUSINESS IN OUR GOVERNMENT! Is ANYBODY TRYING TO STOP THIS COUP? wtf

joshuafaile.bsky.social•89 days ago

Coup d’flaw in the system.

rig8r.bsky.social•89 days ago

As a well-read normie, could you and KA do a Make Me Smart on this?

rig8r.bsky.social•89 days ago

I don’t have a full understanding of the implications.

sonjakleinberg.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is an actual coup. Why is nobody saying it??

kellermel.bsky.social•89 days ago

Musk said people were going to experience hardship. Cruelty is part of the plan for this admin. None of us are safe.

stevezorowitz.bsky.social•89 days ago

I don't think they'll want to make 68 million social security recipients mad (yet), but I bet they re-jigger the systems to accept and pay out in bitcoin sooner or later.

debmd.bsky.social•89 days ago

It's an internal terrorist attack. How can they be stopped?!

ladyevenstarbpe.bsky.social•89 days ago

🤮Well good-bye god...

adamwo.bsky.social•89 days ago

What does this mean? What is "access"?

cyneheard.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is an important question. Which of these three buckets, in what combination?

1) Data about what we pay, including all the back-end details.
2) Ability to stop payments. For anything and anyone?
3) Ability to make payments. For anything and anyone?

yodelinghippie.bsky.social•89 days ago

full access to the systems that writes checks to government projects and employees, as well as all details about those employees from SS# to performance evals -possibly even insurance/health details but I can't say for sure on that on.
Foreign aid to social individual social society checks

yodelinghippie.bsky.social•89 days ago

*Security checks

ridiculicious.bsky.social•89 days ago

And why did he give them access. Was he at gunpoint?

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