Monday, February 03, 2025

DOGE Commission Accesses Sensitive Treasury Payment Systems

Associated Press sources say Elon Musk's DOGE now has access to key payment systems such as Social Security and Medicare.

Posted by Dbt2 at 12:33 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink

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What could possibly go wrong now that Elon Musk has gained access to all US Treasury payments? www.motherjones.com/politics/202 ...

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-- Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) February 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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... Musk: "The @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." ...

Of course he didn't.

He doesn't have to. He rarely does provide evidence.

All he has to do is say things that Pres Trump approves of.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-02 07:59 PM

... and, fwiw, these payment systems hold some very personal data for all Americans.

Now Mr Musk apparently has unfettered access to that data.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-02 08:01 PM

This situation is one of the dumbest actions that any president in this country's history could have taken. Protect the American people? Nope--the opposite has occurred. Americans have been sold out to a creepy, un-elected foreign-born government contractor. DOGE is the deep state...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-03 05:22 PM

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