A new report shows that tech billionaire Elon Musk’s companies have sucked at least $38 billion out of the federal government’s coffers. The report, published by the Washington Post, makes the case that Musk’s corporate empire would not exist were it not for a flood of taxpayer money from the very government that the billionaire […]
We Finally Know Who’s (Supposedly) Running DOGE
After weeks of the Trump administration giving everyone—the press, the court system, its own staff—the runaround on who is in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, we finally have an answer. According to a report from Semafor (and confirmed by government sources at numerous outlets), Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of DOGE. […]
IRS Employees Told They Must Respond to Musk’s Bizarre Email by Midnight
Federal workers at the U.S. Treasury, which includes the IRS, received an email Monday signed by a former Heritage Foundation analyst instructing them to answer Elon Musk’s bizarre email demanding to know what they’ve been working on. The deadline for responding is midnight tonight, and workers at several agencies have been told not to respond, […]
DOGE Staffer Known as ‘Big Balls’ Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy
Look, sure it’s not ideal that decisions that the federal government is being gutted agency by agency, stripped of purpose, funding, and staffing by Elon Musk and a team of 20-something-year-old edgelords who were sourced from a network of tech bro crypto-fascists and boost the messaging of white nationalists in their free time, but at […]
Top MAGA Lawyer Launches ‘Operation Whirlwind’ to Look Into Democrats Over ‘Threats’ Against Elon Musk
The MAGA movement, which has sought to align itself with the principle of “freedom of speech,” sure isn’t too happy about criticism of its newly unelected bureaucrat, Elon Musk. Indeed, a federal attorney in Washington D.C., who was recently appointed by Trump, has launched a new initiative designed to prosecute those who “threaten” Musk and […]
Federal Judge Refuses to Halt Destruction of U.S. Government by Elon Musk
A federal judge in Washington D.C. refused to grant a request brought by 14 attorneys general to block Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing private information across a number of agencies and laying off huge segments of the federal workforce. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, acknowledged DOGE was causing confusion in […]
DOGE Reportedly Cuts FDA Employees Investigating Neuralink
The purging of federal employees carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) somehow just keeps cutting staffers involved in investigating Elon Musk’s companies. According to a report from Reuters, several employees at the US Food and Drug Administration who were tasked with managing reviews and applications related to Musk’s Neuralink received pink slips […]
Lawsuit to Stop Elon Musk From Decimating Government Gets a Tough Judge
Donald Trump’s administration has been hit with a flurry of lawsuits over the blatantly illegal actions it’s taken since the president was sworn in on Jan. 20. But one new case against Elon Musk, the billionaire who’s currently trying to dismantle federal agencies under the pretext of fighting “fraud,” may be a tough one for […]
Elon’s DOGE Attack on Financial Watchdog Coincides With X Pursuit of Digital Wallet
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 […]