Elon Musk has sought to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which, as its name denotes, is dedicated to protecting consumers from scummy financial schemes. Bloomberg has pointed out the interesting timing of this effort, given that Musk’s platform, X (formerly Twitter), is currently pursuing a “digital wallet” feature that would ask users to […]
How Elon Musk’s DOGE Could End the U.S. Government as We Know It
Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the rhetoric of cost-cutting and regulatory streamlining lies a troubling scenario. Musk has been appointed what is called a “special government employee” in […]
Elon Musk Rehiring DOGE Staffer Who Resigned Over Racist Tweets
Elon Musk is rehiring the guy who resigned from DOGE yesterday. And we can’t say that we’re entirely surprised. Musk launched a poll on his social media platform X Friday to ask followers if he should rehire Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer who had been working on the DOGE project that’s currently ransacking the […]
Poll Finds Only 30% of Americans Are Excited About Elon Musk’s DOGE
Donald Trump, a billionaire, has filled his administration with other billionaires, the most high profile of which is his political benefactor and “first buddy” Elon Musk. Musk has taken it upon himself to drastically reorganize the federal government through an initiative he’s dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). However, a recent poll found that […]