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Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible."
Highlighting key reforms that need to be implemented, he stated All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!,
I don’t think there’s been, I don’t know … a case (of) an organization (that) has been more transparent than the DOGE organization,
I always abide by the courts.”
When asked if he’d accept rulings by judges who he complained have slowed his shock-and-awe start to his second term, the president said Transparency is what builds trust,
Musk said of DOGE’s social media campaign, apparently without noticing the irony of his personal situation The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get,
They’re worried about their jobs. They’re worried about their families. They’re also worried about their work and the communities they serve,
said Helen Bottcher, a former Environmental Protection Agency employee and current union leader in Seattle We are moving fast, so we will make mistakes, but we’ll also fix the mistakes very quickly,
By eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity, my Administration will empower American families, workers, taxpayers, and our system of Government itself,
Gravitas can be difficult sometimes,
said Musk as his young son X—full name X Æ A-Xii—began to chatter and squirm during his remarks I check frequently with the president to make sure that this is what the president wants to happen. So, we talk almost every day,
It's not like I think I can get away with something, I'll be scrutinized non-stop."
Musk rejected the criticisms, saying If there's not a good feedback loop from the people to the government and you have rule of the bureaucrat, or if the bureaucracy is in charge then what meaning does democracy really have,
I have detractors? I don't believe it"
Asked by a reporter about his "detractors," Musk first joked All of our actions are fully public. So, if you see anything, it’s not like people are going to be shy about saying it. Transparency builds trust.”
Quizzed about possible conflicts of interests – Musk’s company has won billion-dollar Pentagon contracts – he replied We have this unelected, fourth, unconstitutional branch of government, which is the bureaucracy, which has, in a lot of ways currently, more power than any elected representative,
If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives, in the form of the president and the Senate and the House, then we don't live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy."
At a high level – you say what is the goal of Doge – and I think a significant part of the presidency is to restore democracy,
Musk began as X began to pull at his father’s Maga baseball cap We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X and to the DOGE website, so all of our actions are maximally transparent,
Nobody’s going to bat a thousand,
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