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I guess maybe you could say some high intelligence or something. And I’ll do that myself if I have to,
I’ve instructed him to go check out Education, to check out the Pentagon, which is the military,
This unelected group, led by the world's richest man, is not authorized to have this information, and they explicitly sought this unauthorized access to illegally block payments that millions of Americans rely on, payments for health care, childcare and other essential programs."
Letitia James, the New York attorney general, said of the Treasury Department case No future lawsuit could undo the physical harm that might result if USAID employees are not informed of imminent security threats occurring in the countries to which they have relocated in the course of their service to the United States."
U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols wrote in a seven-page opinion This decision failed to account for legal obligations to protect such data and ignored the privacy expectations of federal fund recipients,
including states, veterans, retirees and taxpayers, ... the lawsuit says Defendants' new expanded access policy poses huge cybersecurity risks that put vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril,
USAID IS DRIVING THE RADICAL LEFT CRAZY, AND THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE WAY IN WHICH THE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT, SO MUCH OF IT FRAUDULENTLY, IS TOTALLY UNEXPLAINABLE. THE CORRUPTION IS AT LEVELS RARELY SEEN BEFORE. CLOSE IT DOWN!"
Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Administrative leave in Syria is not the same as administrative leave in Bethesda: simply being paid cannot change that fact,
They have cost thousands of American jobs. And they have imperiled U.S. national security interests,
I actually checked with him a few times. Said 'Are you sure?' Yes, so we're shutting it down,
What we’re seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government,
Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, told Wired Big News - Talked to the DOGE team. They are going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system.”
On Wednesday, Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation (and former reality TV star) tweeted I was racist before it was cool”, ... You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” and “normalize Indian hate”.
Elez, who has worked for Musk’s SpaceX, tweeted things like It’s inappropriate for the federal government to purposely hide the identities of senior officials who are shaping the policies and servicing the public,
said Scott Amey, the general counsel of the Project on Government Oversight He’s the most unqualified person to be sitting in any seat of government, let alone the person who has the keys to our foreign assistance,
another former colleague at USAid who still works at the agency said This was just the Doge dudes just literally on the phone with Musk just getting directions from him,
These people are clueless, given how smart they’re supposed to be,
one USAid employee currently on administrative leave said of the young Doge team They work, actually, out of the White House,
The least sinister version of what the administration is doing is, ‘Let’s play this out in the courts and see if we can get approval through the courts.’
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for New York, wrote on X on February 3:
