"When DOGE came knocking at the U.S. Treasury and demanded database access, senior Treasury official David Lebryk resigned in protest, leading to a taunting tweet from Musk accusing the Treasury Department of funding known frauds and terrorists. "
What Musk says is beyond wrong, it's a category error. BFS is a payment system. Agencies issue the pay orders and certify the funds. Agencies twice run payees through Treasury's Do Not Pay system. BFS checks again to make sure the recipients aren't dead. BFS does not have the authority to unilaterally veto payments it doesn't like, and Musk is cleary indicating he will have it do exactly that if he's able.
Interesting. No mention of Obama's weaponization of the IRS, DOJ, FBI, etc. Also no mention of Obama's IG scandal: " Obama's unilateral decision to fire Gerald Walpin, the Inspector General of AmeriCorps. An inspector general's job is to investigate for waste, fraud or abuse of federal funds. Walpin had recently investigated Kevin Johnson, an Obama supporter, and the nonprofit St. HOPE Academy that Johnson headed. Walpin found six instances of funds being diverted or wrongly used, none of which were disputed by Johnson. Walpin handed his findings over to the DOJ. The DOJ then found sufficient cause to order St. Hope to repay about half of nearly $847,000 in federal grants they had received from AmeriCorps. On the heels of that, not only did Obama act to fire Walpin, but Obama failed to comply with an act he voted for last year meant to protect Inspector Generals from political pressure."
"When DOGE came knocking at the U.S. Treasury and demanded database access, senior Treasury official David Lebryk resigned in protest, leading to a taunting tweet from Musk accusing the Treasury Department of funding known frauds and terrorists. "
What Musk says is beyond wrong, it's a category error. BFS is a payment system. Agencies issue the pay orders and certify the funds. Agencies twice run payees through Treasury's Do Not Pay system. BFS checks again to make sure the recipients aren't dead. BFS does not have the authority to unilaterally veto payments it doesn't like, and Musk is cleary indicating he will have it do exactly that if he's able.
Interesting. No mention of Obama's weaponization of the IRS, DOJ, FBI, etc. Also no mention of Obama's IG scandal: " Obama's unilateral decision to fire Gerald Walpin, the Inspector General of AmeriCorps. An inspector general's job is to investigate for waste, fraud or abuse of federal funds. Walpin had recently investigated Kevin Johnson, an Obama supporter, and the nonprofit St. HOPE Academy that Johnson headed. Walpin found six instances of funds being diverted or wrongly used, none of which were disputed by Johnson. Walpin handed his findings over to the DOJ. The DOJ then found sufficient cause to order St. Hope to repay about half of nearly $847,000 in federal grants they had received from AmeriCorps. On the heels of that, not only did Obama act to fire Walpin, but Obama failed to comply with an act he voted for last year meant to protect Inspector Generals from political pressure."
Wait, are you applying whataboutism?
https://substack.com/@lemnyc/note/c-93948226?r=e1lha&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
"DOGE is SMOGE"
Unelected and unaccountable. The Trojan Horse of the trump election.