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The investigation is closed and citations have been issued,
said the department, which oversees the agency that conducted the Tesla probe, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Americans have a right to know whether Tesla and its contractors put a man's life at risk, and whether Tesla will follow workplace safety rules going forward,
the letter readPublic officials, just like private sector Americans, need reliable information to do their jobs. The government is obviously free to cancel any subscriptions it likes. But the main result of blacklisting independent news is that these agencies and offices will know far less about what’s happening in the world. It’s hard to imagine how that will serve the people of the United States."
New York Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander said
The Department has paused all non-mission critical contracts for media subscriptions that are not academic or professional journals,
a State Department spokesperson said in a statement emailed to ReutersAs a matter of policy, Reuters does not comment on commercial agreements."
A Reuters spokesperson saidDo I need to call Elon?”
They are cowing Washington with the six most ominous words in its new lexicon
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He who saves his country does not violate the law.”
Last week Trump said ... Musk believeToday I heard, ‘oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years ... You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,
Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when asked about the Ukrainian reaction
I was terminated from my dream job with the Children’s Bureau yesterday due to federal restructuring orders/DOGE. I am unemployed for the first time since I was 15 years old.”
In a post shared on February 15, she wrote
Didn’t have any meetings today so I’ve been wearing my jammies all day but now I have a meeting in 30 minutes sooo putting on a hoodie. Eventually that WFH life gonna getcha.”
In a post dated October 2024, she had writtenI love the president. I think President Trump is a good man. The president has been so unfairly attacked in the media. It's truly outrageous. And I've spent--at this point, spent a lot of time with the president. And not once have I seen him do something that was mean or cruel or wrong,
Elon Musk said
I'm a technologist, and I try to make technologies that-- improve the world and make life better... I'm here to provide the President with technology support... It's a very important thing, because the president will make these executive orders, which are very sensible and good for the country, but then they don't get implemented,
he addedI'm here to provide the president with technology support."
Calling himself the tech-support for the President, Musk saidI love the president. I want to be clear about that,
Musk said
He has got some very brilliant young people working for him that dress much worse than him actually. They dress in just t-shirts; you wouldn’t know they have 180 IQ,
Trump said, praising Musk as a “leader” who “gets it done”.
I respect him; I have always respected him. I never knew that he was right on certain things, and I am usually pretty good at this stuff. He did Starlink, he did things that were so advanced and nobody knew what the hell they were,
Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, referring to Musk’s satellite internet serviceActually, Elon called me. He said, ‘You know they are trying to drive us apart.’ I said, ‘Absolutely,
Trump saidIt’s going to be strengthened – but won’t be touched. Medicare, Medicaid – none of that stuff is going to be touched,
he saidAll we're really try to do here is restore the will of the people through the president and what we're finding is that there's an unelected bureaucracy ... that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet,
Musk told Fox News in an interview recorded on Friday and aired on TuesdayThis is not normal, at all,
one Senate committee aide said about the lack of response