DOGE at work

gcode · February 01, 2025, 07:15 AM

QuoteThe
@DOGE
team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

Not even once.

RobertELee · February 01, 2025, 07:42 AM

Oh hey look at the .gov cuck giving the crazy eyes

CNCAppsJames · February 01, 2025, 08:51 AM

Quote from: RobertELee on February 01, 2025, 07:42 AMOh hey look at the .gov cuck giving the crazy eyes

😐

Totally shocked. I mean I would have NEVER saw that coming.

CNCAppsJames · February 01, 2025, 09:06 AM

Quote(Reuters) - David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave following a clash with allies of billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
The report, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, said Lebryk and Musk's surrogates clashed over access to a sensitive system...
It was unclear why the team tied to Musk, who U.S. President Donald Trump has tasked with overhauling the government, sought access to the payment system.

Really? I mean REALLY? Ok Reuters... don't fucking be obtuse!

They don't think that is an important aspect of an audit? I get it though, he's been doing the job since I graduated High School and it is a completely mechanical job; get a bill, pay a bill. He took offense. The treasury's job as it is written right now best I can tell is not to discern to pay or not to pay... perhaps that should change... I dunno. If it did change, it would most likely require an increase in staffing. Disbursement of trillions of dollars is no small feat.

My take; DOGE wants access to who was paid and how much BECAUSE it's 100% THE most efficient method to analyze which departments and/or agencies need further examination.

mkd · February 01, 2025, 10:35 AM

Since the Pentagon have failed every audit in recent memory.. going to the top makes sense.

Jim at Gentex · February 03, 2025, 07:19 AM

Quote from: CNCAppsJames on February 01, 2025, 09:06 AMMy take; DOGE wants access to who was paid and how much BECAUSE it's 100% THE most efficient method to analyze which departments and/or agencies need further examination.

See, there you go making sense again.

Lots of things are apparently 'unclear' to the dipshits at Reuters, so this one is no big shocker.

Do we REALLY need to explain to them that in order for DOGE to do its job they will need to be able to look under the hood, so to speak?

neurosis · February 03, 2025, 04:17 PM

Does anyone in here think that what Doge is doing is even mildly unconstitutional?

RobertELee · February 03, 2025, 04:23 PM

Quote from: neurosis on February 03, 2025, 04:17 PMDoes anyone in here think that what Doge is doing is even mildly unconstitutional?

Is it unconstitutional to have an unbloated and efficient government that may possibly reduce a deficit?

Incogneeto · February 03, 2025, 04:27 PM

Quote from: RobertELee on February 03, 2025, 04:23 PMIs it unconstitutional to have an unbloated and efficient government that may possibly reduce a deficit?

By Billions??

mowens · February 03, 2025, 10:03 PM

Quote from: RobertELee on February 03, 2025, 04:23 PMIs it unconstitutional to have an unbloated and efficient government that may possibly reduce a deficit?

We'll never know.

neurosis · February 04, 2025, 12:28 AM

Quote from: RobertELee on February 03, 2025, 04:23 PMIs it unconstitutional to have an unbloated and efficient government that may possibly reduce a deficit?

I suspect you guys would be singing a different tune if Kamala had been elected and George Soros and a bunch of his unvetted lacky's busted in to all of these agencies, shut them down, and gained access to the Treasury payment system and other private information. That includes Musks business rivals

Whether or not you agree with how the government is spending money, or some of these agencies that we feel like we may or may not need, isn't there a proper way to go about this that isn't illegal or unconstitutional?

Jeff · February 04, 2025, 03:10 AM

Quote from: neurosis on February 03, 2025, 04:17 PMDoes anyone in here think that what Doge is doing is even mildly unconstitutional?

Cutting wasteful government spending is now unconstitutional?
Gimme a break.

mkd · February 04, 2025, 03:27 AM

USAID (hearts and minds via cold hard cash) getting blown up.
Just delicious

JParis · February 04, 2025, 03:32 AM

Quote from: Jeff on February 04, 2025, 03:10 AMCutting wasteful government spending is now unconstitutional?
Gimme a break.

Actually, depending on the "exactness" of how that spending is done is an open question.

Money that is specifically approved by legislation and signed into law, there is not much solid ground to stand on as to the spending of that money as laid out in legislation without revisiting said legislation. To arbitrarily cut that without Congressional approval would I think be "Unconstitutional"

In regards to what USAID is doing, much of what is being put out is NOT in any approved legislation, it was being determined at the "Executive" level. As such, the next Executive is on solid ground when cutting that spending in particular.

There is a marked difference between the 2...it's akin to XO's, what is done by XO can be undone by XO...

neurosis · February 04, 2025, 04:18 AM

Quote from: JParis on February 04, 2025, 03:32 AMIn regards to what USAID is doing, much of what is being put out is NOT in any approved legislation, it was being determined at the "Executive" level. As such, the next Executive is on solid ground when cutting that spending in particular.

Congress does approve funding for USAid, correct? I'm not sure how all of that factors in to who gets to decide how the money is spent (or not spent) and who doesn't.

To remove the agency completely would require congressional approval?