Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution grants Congress the power of the purse through the Appropriations Clause, which states, “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” This constitutes a violation of our Constitution.
Trump doesn’t care, republicans in Congress are spineless fucks, too afraid to put the constitution above trump. Administration not obeying federal orders either cause who will enforce them? What happens next? The end of democracy?
I like this law. And I would like someone, anyone, to enforce it. Or add a Crisis Rapid Response Team to our Judiciary branch, to put requests for injunctions in front of a judge in hours, instead of days. Like most, I have no faith that Musk will destroy the private data that he shouldn’t have.
I like the energy here from AG Matt Platkin and Daniel Goldman, "Tell it to the judge under oath." I really hope we get some action on this. Not holding my breath, honestly, but this from Platkin is the most encouraging thing I've seen yet.
He's brazenly defied actual on the books laws. There's absolutely no reason to think he's going to follow a court order.
There are no watchdogs or regulators looking at what he's doing, and he's using (i believe?) private security to push his way into places and keep others out.
Elon had been losing money for years. He was living in a pre-fab house in Texas. ALL of his investments were losing money. Q4 2024 was slated to be disastrous for Tesla.
"It seems his “charity” ranks somewhere between sad and questionable. The alleged wealthiest man on the planet has a charity with zero actual employees, funded by stocks, to perform ‘charitable’ things that only seem to benefit his companies."
Any Republican member of Congress that kneels to Trump before the Constitution MUST be imprisoned and marked as a domestic terrorist. They CANNOT be trusted to protect the people from tyranny any longer. THEY ARE THE TYRANNY. They've failed the test. LOCK 'EM UP!!!
and who or what is going to physically arrest and remove these criminals who broke the laws of the land ?
that is where the laws are woefully impotent and weak in the face of a well planned/funded coup
Which makes it seem like we're well past "nice Constitution you got there; shame if something happened to it" and have arrived at "violation, schmiolation."
We're at a distinct disadvantage: we're playing by the rules; they've torn up the rule book. And while it takes an age to formulate a case to take to court, they have their plan worked out using AI in a jiffy, and they're already two or three plans ahead ...
Is thee a way to make a Rapid Response Team legal and able to respond faster? Similar to radiation containment team at a nuclear power plant? Or a prison riot response team? Lawyers & Investigators with 24/7 Judge access for temporary restraining orders?
Why is the Treasury under the Executive branch, then? Why is it headed by a Cabinet member? If Congress has the power of the purse, why not just have the Treasury be like the Congressional Budget Office, which is a nonpartisan federal agency that is run directly by the Congress?
That's like asking, "Why do businesses require two signatures on checks? Why even have a Chief Financial Officer if that person can't just independently spend money as they see fit?"
It is a coup. We need armed forces that actually respect the constitution to take down Elon’s private military that is protecting him to restore rule of law. Constellis must be neutralized. They are exerting authority of DC illegally at the behest of a literal Traitor to the Union.
Our country used to execute people like this for espionage and treason. But in late-stage capitalism, money buys power and the richest man in the world answers to no one.
I feel you! I would argue that the courts are the only ones doing their job. Judge John C. Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, recently rebuked the administration. Congress is surrendering their authority and enabling the power grab.
I’m sorry, but I think we all need proof that Congress is, indeed, doing anything besides standing in front of a microphone and bitching about what trump and his fellow Nazis are doing.
working on it like: reading the instructions on a fire extinguisher and taking a poll of 1000 people to ensure a >90% agreement that a fire extinguisher is appropriate when a fire is ravaging the fucking kitchen
Because a binary world isn’t helpful and harder to beat. If we “other” them for being republican who is that different then racism? Republican doesn’t equal maga for me… republican I can talk to. MAGA is a deal breaker
Also not all who voted for Trump are MAGA. Some thought he was the better of two poor options, but they don’t really like him or like how he’s going about the first few weeks. Everyone has their reasons for voting how they did, however much I may disagree.
It is taking to the streets in outrage and calling or writing your senator & congress every day, ez to put their numbers in your cell & call!
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i wouldn't call them gutless. they're magats. they're fascists. they're white supremacists, oligarchs, patriarchs, psychopaths, greedmeisters, racists, misogynists,
and idiots, but gutless they are not.
mostly they are republicans.
The courts have been the colluseum of democratic gladiators for over two and a half century. Many, have seen it all. Trump's mob isn't new. Only brazen and stupider than your ordinary criminal enterprise.
Exactly!!!💯….I keep asking why are they quoting from something with the exception of having been burned in the middle of 5th Ave, has been nullified since 11/5/2025!
It is not a Department but it is an Office. The President has executive control of some money to fund Offices.
It depends on where the money is coming from.
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They are not external auditors offering an unbiased assessment of expenditure, therefore the assumption should be fraud until facts bear them out. All activity should be brought to Congress.
Do not give up. Don't become resigned and cynical. This is the time to stand up and be counted. Think of the incredible men and women who fought tooth and nail in the 20th century to give you rights. Never give up. Be proud. There are 232 million of you? That's a lot of people power. Remember that.
Remember it's a slim majority and many Republican senators will be swayed by pester power. Keep bugging them, writing to them, calling them and generally blowing up their email etc until they understand that a sizeable chunk of their community demands transparency.
I think Elon should find his own department. After all, it's his "civic duty." Maybe while he is at it, he can also find free school lunches. He will have more than enough left over.
Of course he did!! They surely have already copied/downloaded all of our personal info (SS#s, addresses, medical info, emails, etc., etc.) and his hackers have surely installed backdoor access to get back in again if they are blocked. WTAF - Can't believe that this is where we are!! 🤬
That is among the highest rate of weekly expenditures for unnamed expenses by any department in the USA government of only 10 members. Apportioned by whom? From what "budget?" Present the itemized receipts. If DOGE can't control their own spending, they can't do the DOGE job as described.
Cyber crimes occurring on the tax payers dime for a non-recognized department supposedly investigating wasteful spending, yet costing $1M a day? Only on trump’s admin would that even have a chance of making sense. This is all on the backs of MAGAtards.
Absolutely ridiculous! Then there's the $15-$20 million spent on the Super Bowl adventure!
If they are on the payroll at all, they should be background checked and drug tested like any other worker would be on behalf of the government.
No joke, of the $6,750,000 total, the "unanticipated needs" portion was $6,000,000 - You literally can't make this shit up. This doesn't sound very "efficient".
Cutting the waste, fraud & abuse. Right. It's all a gigantic lie. All of it. Every dollar of last week's 7M is being used for nefarious purposes. What a fucking joke.
And I bet their expenses for travel absolutely do not follow the rules for federal employees, like gov rate hotels and flying economy and a limited per diem.
7 million??? What ordinary person spends 7 million in a week or two? I want a decent retirement, that's what I worked for and enough left over to pay my damn credit cards, that were paid off and I had to dig them out to pay for eggs, gas and power in my house and astronomical banking fees. 🙄😮💨
Not to mention the utter waste of govt employees reacting and recalibrating to every damn illegal EO that’s signed. Half the day is spent trying to figure out how to react to the nonsense.
I miss the good old days when executive orders were uncommonly used. Now everything is an executive order instead of having review, checks and balances
He controls your checbook and will only pay himself and friends TechBros first. NOBODY else.Your observations and conclusions bulleye. Information is the value and Elon's got severals copies on his servers and sell that to others TechBros for AI Learing plus replace Gov workforces with ChatBots.
Is anyone keeping track of the ⛳️ bills? 10+ rounds in just three weeks? Last time it cost taxpayers in excess of 133 million dollars for 117 (low ball) rounds of golf.
For the reported (Elmo) $3T-issue the report! What lines of inquiry LOI used? Deficiency findings?Opportunities for improvement OFI? Audit artifacts showing the misspent govt funds? Who signed the closeout? #KPMG #Deloitte comment?as the ‘wasted’ $ privately redirected to a non-authorized entity?
? I do not quite understand. What DOGE is suppose to to and what it is actually doing, are two different things? Main thing is access, now from anywhere. The endgame is stealing the money for Trump and co. Everything else is show. $3T is what's to get, not the $2T DOGE promises to save.
The data they hacked into at the treasury is responsible for 3 trillion is government spending. Payments have been halted and nobody knows yet (as the civil servants can't access there own data) what has been transferred where.
In other words, can't Leon pay for his goons out of his own pocket?
Since his goons are so young and shouldn't we be referring to the DOGE kids as 'the Goonies'?
Sounds like Doge is a total waste. They could have received all the information they needed by asking the department heads to supply any documentation they needed. There never was any reason to hack those computer systems. Never mind that we shouldn't have to pay a quadrillionaire anything!
A significant chunk of that $7 million DOGE are likely for Azure AI cloud services, after these ruthless punks pushed whole confidential data bases up there for analysis.
Has anyone sued to prevent it? Apportionment can not occur unless the amounts have been agreed to by legislation. And novel expenditures by government cannot be attempted while government is under a Continuing Resolution. #CREW, take notice!
"Five days in office, no more delay!"
Trump barks at workers, then to the fairway!
President Musk isn’t golfing. He’s calling the plays,
While Trump is out golfing 30% of his days.
We will be lucky to only see 4 years of this. They're trying to do away with term limits, with the foregone conclusion that those currently installed are staying.
I downloaded all my stuff when I found out the were gonna attack the DOE next. I needed to make sure I had everything to show my loans were forgiven since I’m a 100% disabled vet.
And now we get to the real purpose of doge, pillaging the coffers. Elon wants to be the first trillionaire and the only way to do that is to steal from a nation.
Hey, give them a break!
They need huge numbers of thumb drives to hold all our personal data.
And the bills for pizza to feed the Musketeers are enormous.
And we all know what happens when nerds live closely together, so a small fortune for air fresheners was budgeted.
I believe that sushi is now the food of choice for techbros.
I mean, pizza is classic, but come one, we have some money here. And is there a good poke place close by? Let's go!
They are taking care of themselves first. Cowing the opposition. Smiting the foes with their revenge. Shutting down any agency demanding compliance. Weeding out any ethical servant for dismissal. Stealing anything not tied down. This is muskyrump seeping across the nation drowning us in effluence.
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And quite honestly, tired of hearing about it.
We must find ways to care and to communicate, because the next step is to end our ability to communicate about it.
Only Congress can approve wars, and the expenses associated with waging war.
And, history of holding criminals of this magnitude accontable is less than optimal.
Gives him enough confidence to give 0 fucks.
There are no watchdogs or regulators looking at what he's doing, and he's using (i believe?) private security to push his way into places and keep others out.
Elon had been losing money for years. He was living in a pre-fab house in Texas. ALL of his investments were losing money. Q4 2024 was slated to be disastrous for Tesla.
https://open.substack.com/pub/travelguru/p/is-elon-musk-the-richest-man-on-earth?r=cak0&utm_medium=ios
It's a scam, like Trump's was a scam.
Who is coding them?
Who replaced those experts?
that is where the laws are woefully impotent and weak in the face of a well planned/funded coup
Lawlessness is the order of the day
But it bothers me as much that they are cancelling the appropriations that WERE made by congress !!
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Why do white people always leave that out?
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congress majority just stick their heads into you know what.
and idiots, but gutless they are not.
mostly they are republicans.
The courts have been the colluseum of democratic gladiators for over two and a half century. Many, have seen it all. Trump's mob isn't new. Only brazen and stupider than your ordinary criminal enterprise.
From within or without or both it doesn't matter--
It depends on where the money is coming from.
DOGE isn’t an official department and is the epitome of waste, fraud, and abuse.
https://truthout.org/articles/tesla-paid-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024-despite-2-3-billion-in-income/
Thieves!
More fascist bullshit that MUST BE ADDRESSED.
If they are on the payroll at all, they should be background checked and drug tested like any other worker would be on behalf of the government.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YAyEdG/
the gift goes on
the bum keeps pounding morons in the brain . . .
- with apologies to Sonny and Cher
#ARRESTMUSKNOW
#ARRESTTRUMPNOW
This was an rigged 2024 election! Trump did not win the office of the Presidency! VP Harris is the true "Winner"!
Congress controls the purse strings.
Those mother’s basements aren’t gonna pay for themselves.
Good lord we are in trouble.
He's literally pulling off a heist. Jesus, just open the doors to Ft. Knox for him while we're at it.
I imagine that 7 million also went towards the additional members to ... Wait, hackers don't need much to go in and download info on a thumb drive
Since his goons are so young and shouldn't we be referring to the DOGE kids as 'the Goonies'?
Arrest these Incel MFrs.
$6,975,000 - elon musk’s pocket
"Five days in office, no more delay!"
Trump barks at workers, then to the fairway!
President Musk isn’t golfing. He’s calling the plays,
While Trump is out golfing 30% of his days.
They need huge numbers of thumb drives to hold all our personal data.
And the bills for pizza to feed the Musketeers are enormous.
And we all know what happens when nerds live closely together, so a small fortune for air fresheners was budgeted.
I mean, pizza is classic, but come one, we have some money here. And is there a good poke place close by? Let's go!
https://rollcall.com/2025/02/04/white-house-opens-funding-spigot-for-doge-expenses/
Feb 17, 2025