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Friday, January 31, 2025

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials. Since taking office 11 days ago, President Donald Trump has embarked on a massive government makeover, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants in his first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.

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Leon is helping Putin's bitch destroy the government.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-31 06:38 PM | Reply

Elon Musk proves you don't have to be a citizen of the United States in order to be the president of the United States.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-31 06:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hey... he paid at least $300 million to buy Trump, so he's gotta make good on the investment.

And he'll likely turn those millions into trillions for... himself.

And do it on the back of average American workers who will be guaranteeing his investments, including Bitcoin.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-31 07:17 PM | Reply

Coup coup

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-31 07:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

But but Soros ...

~ MAGA Dumfux ~

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-31 07:54 PM | Reply

More from the cited article ...

... The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department's data systems.

The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

"We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications." ...


... "We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications." ...

So, what might Mr Musk be doing to that data to benefit Pres Trump?

Oh, wait, there is no oversight, so we don't know.


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-31 08:05 PM | Reply

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