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Combined with recent reports of large short positions in the market, it makes you wonder... These articles claim full access. Does that imply the ability to sto

Combined with recent reports of large short positions in the market, it makes you wonder... These articles claim full access. Does that imply the ability to stop certain payments? How much goes to private companies? Is there any overlap between these companies and recent short positions? All interesting questions. If your goal is to cut expenses, presumably your goal would be to have access to turn off the money tap. Because otherwise, what can DOGE really accomplish?

wahnfrieden 2y ago
I understand that legally their access privileges are for non-confidential IT upgrades. However they appear to not be operating under rules-based order and rather "might makes right".
ty6853 2y ago
They can make a full backup of the payment history. Congress controls the actual tap but the executive has the power to monitor payments administered through the executive branch. Once the corruption, waste, and redistribution payments are traced we can find out how to ensure voters know what needs done to shit-can those programs and jobs.
- unsnap_biceps 2y ago
  It's all public data. There's even free apis to get live data. What are they hunting for that needs more access than that? Do you believe the data feeds are fraudulent in some way that the balance sheets are not?
  - scarab92 2y ago
    When looking for fraud and abuse you want access to the single source of truth, not secondary derived sources. People need to accept that Trump won and is now directly in charge of the executive branch. Imagine holding the belief that a company's CEO should wait until the CFO publishes financial statements to the market to understand how the company is performing. That's what people sound like when they complain about Musk et al querying government databases.
    - unsnap_biceps 2y ago
      The single source of truth is what's exposed, unless you are claiming that the treasury is manipulating their data feeds to filter out things? I'm not sure what fraud or abuse you are expecting them to find? There's external auditors that audit the books daily, so you're talking about a conspiracy that would be massive to hide a single cent. The treasury doesn't choose how to spend the money. Congress tells them to release x amount for program y, and the general concern is about how program y spends its money once it's released from the treasury. This won't show that at all.
- locopati 2y ago
  Ah yes. I'm sure someone who has been convicted of fraud and someone who gleefully breaks laws running his companies will definitely track down all that corruption and help the country's finances for the good of the people. How can you seriously believe the words you write?
bitlax 2y ago
Going broke shorting Tesla is pretty much a meme at this point.

wahnfrieden 2y ago

I understand that legally their access privileges are for non-confidential IT upgrades. However they appear to not be operating under rules-based order and rather "might makes right".

ty6853 2y ago

They can make a full backup of the payment history. Congress controls the actual tap but the executive has the power to monitor payments administered through the executive branch. Once the corruption, waste, and redistribution payments are traced we can find out how to ensure voters know what needs done to shit-can those programs and jobs.

unsnap_biceps 2y ago
It's all public data. There's even free apis to get live data. What are they hunting for that needs more access than that? Do you believe the data feeds are fraudulent in some way that the balance sheets are not?
- scarab92 2y ago
  When looking for fraud and abuse you want access to the single source of truth, not secondary derived sources. People need to accept that Trump won and is now directly in charge of the executive branch. Imagine holding the belief that a company's CEO should wait until the CFO publishes financial statements to the market to understand how the company is performing. That's what people sound like when they complain about Musk et al querying government databases.
  - unsnap_biceps 2y ago
    The single source of truth is what's exposed, unless you are claiming that the treasury is manipulating their data feeds to filter out things? I'm not sure what fraud or abuse you are expecting them to find? There's external auditors that audit the books daily, so you're talking about a conspiracy that would be massive to hide a single cent. The treasury doesn't choose how to spend the money. Congress tells them to release x amount for program y, and the general concern is about how program y spends its money once it's released from the treasury. This won't show that at all.
locopati 2y ago
Ah yes. I'm sure someone who has been convicted of fraud and someone who gleefully breaks laws running his companies will definitely track down all that corruption and help the country's finances for the good of the people. How can you seriously believe the words you write?

bitlax 2y ago

Going broke shorting Tesla is pretty much a meme at this point.