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I missed Musk’s confirmation hearings.
“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions…” Musk doesn’t work for DOGE. The request is straight from DOGE and President Donald Trump. Spokespeople don’t need confirmations.
Phil – literally the next day Trump stated in the interview that Musk ran DOGE.
The same interview where musk talked over Trump for an hour
Phil: you need a basic civics refresher course. It’d go something like this:
Winning presidential candidates are expected to try to get their budgetary platforms adopted. That process is called appropriations. For fiscal years. Which run July 1-June 30. Money currently being spent, is contained in an appropriations bill passed by Congress and signed by the president (or in rare cases vetoed by a president, and overridden or otherwise compromised to get a presidential signature). The Executive Branch doesn’t get to unilaterally alter appropriations.
I expect the President to fight for his budgetary priorities. On appropriations bills for the next budget. And I imagine he’ll be pretty successful.
Presidents. Are not Kings.
Sorry. Fiscal year is Oct. 1-Sept. 30.
I agree with Joe. Philip, are you serious? You think Musk should be able to run around and do whatever he wants with no accountability. Musk, Trump and JD Vance all need to go. They are a cancer on this nation. I used to vote Republican, but that was when we were fiscal conservatives with a strong defense. Now this whole thing is a like a circus, or a really bad dream…
I’m serious. Anyone who thinks the last four years were preferable -IN ANY WAY – your tears soothe me in delight. Maybe you should give it six more months before you stomp around some more like children. Corruption/Extreme Waste exists and you all know it. Blaming the messenger is fruitless as you turn away from the real fraud. It has been just 30 days. TDS and EMS infected all of you.
GROK 3: Elon Musk does not “run” the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the traditional sense of being employed as a full-time government official or holding a formal salaried position. Instead, he has been appointed by President Donald Trump to lead DOGE alongside Vivek Ramaswamy. This role was established through an executive order issued by Trump on January 20, 2025, his first day in office, with the goal of reducing federal spending and bureaucracy.
DOGE is not an official cabinet-level department but operates within the Executive Office of the President, essentially renaming the existing U.S. Digital Service. Musk is classified as a “special government employee” (SGE), a designation for individuals who work for the government for 130 days or less in a year, often unpaid, to provide outside expertise. As an unpaid SGE, Musk is not required to file public financial disclosure reports, and he has stated he is not being paid for this role, framing it as a voluntary effort to serve the American public.
Phillip, this has nothing to do with fraud and waste. If it had to do with fraud and waste, armies of accountants and auditors would have descended to do analysis, not kid programmers who don’t know the languages they’re analyzing because they’re older than their parents and make rookie mistakes like “150 year old people are getting Social Security!”.
There is absolutely no reason that Musk can’t walk in, spend 30-60 days to actually learn what’s happening, then issue a report with recommendations to Congress for what they should include in their big, beautiful bill as far as cuts. Give us a real report of all the extreme waste and corruption. Not some garbage that you roll out on Fox News and, surprise surprise, the numbers don’t add up.
Firing a bunch of folks just because they happened to get promoted and happen to be in a “probationary” period is callous beyond belief. Then again, when you take so many drugs that your lawyers wouldn’t let you get anywhere near a security clearance, perhaps you’re just numb to others.
“One of the laid off IRS employees, Robert McCabe, told NBC10 he went into work on Thursday and had issues logging in. He and his coworker sat around and waited for instructions. He then received the layoff letter shortly before 11:30 a.m. McCabe said he had been a supporter of President Trump prior to the layoff.
“You know when he talks about government waste and all that, yes, I’m behind it,” McCabe said. “I believe there is a lot of stuff in the government that needs fixing. And that’s part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for the government, actually. To help change. Help change the things that are wrong in the world, you know? I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”
Glad you’re enjoying Robert’s tears, Philip.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-irs-layoffs-firings-union-president-trump/4114738/
It’s not necessarily “what” they’re doing, but “how” they’re doing it.
“There is absolutely no reason that Musk can’t walk in,…” he is doing it – orders from the President of the United States (pretty top level stuff, right?) and will keep on doing it. President says so. Sorry. It will sort out, but waste, fraud, and overspending will be dealt with the best it can in four years.
Can you even provide concrete, verified examples of “waste, fraud, and overspending” being dealt with? When the debt continues to go up because of Trump’s tax cut plans for his billionaire friends but the economy also tanks because of the largest layoffs in the history of this country, we’ll have folks like you to thank. One can only hope a serious, good-faith actor is able to clean up the mess that we’ll be in after four years of this Russian agent’s abuses of power.
Philip, that’s not how it works.
You don’t fire FAA employees and let some planes crash and let it sort out.
You don’t get rid of the folks looking at nuclear weapons and figure out afterwards that, oh geez, no one is looking after our bombs.
You don’t fire food inspectors and let there be some major incidents of people getting sick and let it sort out.
The absolute last thing the world at large needs is the Silicon Valley attitude that you move fast and break stuff and “oh well, sucks to be them”. That’s fine with private companies, and employees / investors who know the risk going in and opt into it. You can’t do that with people’s lives on the line. That’s why the idea that you should “run government like a business” is such a fallacy.
Meausre twice, cut once will always remain good advice.
The waste, fraud and overspending are already on the table. FACTS! Because you’re delusional is not the rest of our problem. Grow up.
What planes crashed? What bombs? Who got sick?
You are a conspiracy theorist!
Crazy people on IBJ.
Unable to provide any actual facts or data to support your position so you resort to attacking character. Classic MAGAt behavior.
You’re projecting, Phillip. Get out of your bubble.
Unable to provide the opposite. Classic TDS. There is no pill for that or hormone therapy either.
No mis/overspending/misallocation/DEI spending overreach/foreign hilarious BS funding? Really? You’re falling on that sword?
I’m good. Your bubble is HUGE! Seismic in scope. Wait it out for 6 months… let’s revisit.
Be specific, Philip.
I tend to think that properly staffing the FAA is a proper and needed use of government funding and, given the longstanding inability to have enough employees, cutting any single one without analysis first is a mistake.
DOGE fired over 100 on that probationary technicality and we are supposed to believe they’re not needed, based on what a drug a user has to say. I tend to believe the people who do the work over people with a history of lying.
Go on.
Phillip- please also review the different Articles of the Constitution, the process of Congressional appropriations and the meaning of impoundment.
You sound desperate. I’m not. I have time on my hands. Cut spending, jobs, waste, fraud, PROSECUTE – all of it. FOUR MORE YEARS!
