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Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors

47 points by petethomas 2y ago

CaliforniaKarl 2y ago
https://archive.ph/vC301 https://archive.ph/vC301
ronbenton 2y ago
Some of these reports are really hard to believe or understand. Which contracts? All? That would be insane and seems unlikely.
- owenpalmer 2y ago
  The first sentence of the article says "some payments" are being shut down.
  - bbogdn2 2y ago
    It seems they changed the wording of the article if you compare whats currently published with the archived page.
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unsnap_biceps 2y ago
> Treasury officials have long maintained that its role is to serve as the federal government’s checkbook — and that the decision about whether to approve or deny payment belongs to individual agencies based on funds appropriated by Congress. > “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk wrote on X. Like, this is a no shit Sherlock thing right? If congress passes funding for something, why would we ever want the Treasury to refuse to process it? Would Musk be okay if his accountants at X refused to pay for things he told them to because they don't like it?
- nicce 2y ago
  It is just a talk that he sounds like a shining knight which has come to the rescue.
- Volundr 2y ago
  It is in fact unconstitutional for the executive branch to withhold funds approved by Congress. Congress has the sole power of the purse as Nixon tested (and lost).
bloopernova 2y ago
Whatever your political beliefs can you at least agree that suddenly removing billions from the economy, by not paying or firing people, is reckless? These are your fellow US citizens, not faceless robots or zombies in a computer game. They have lives, family, hopes, and a third of the country wants to put them on the streets? Why do you dehumanize with such fervor?
vdupras 2y ago
Shouldn't this send US credit rating to junk status or something? This is money that is contractually owed, right?
ChrisArchitect 2y ago
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910345

47 points by petethomas 2y ago

https://archive.ph/vC301 https://archive.ph/vC301

Some of these reports are really hard to believe or understand. Which contracts? All? That would be insane and seems unlikely.

owenpalmer 2y ago
The first sentence of the article says "some payments" are being shut down.
- bbogdn2 2y ago
  It seems they changed the wording of the article if you compare whats currently published with the archived page.

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unsnap_biceps 2y ago

> Treasury officials have long maintained that its role is to serve as the federal government’s checkbook — and that the decision about whether to approve or deny payment belongs to individual agencies based on funds appropriated by Congress. > “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk wrote on X. Like, this is a no shit Sherlock thing right? If congress passes funding for something, why would we ever want the Treasury to refuse to process it? Would Musk be okay if his accountants at X refused to pay for things he told them to because they don't like it?

nicce 2y ago
It is just a talk that he sounds like a shining knight which has come to the rescue.
Volundr 2y ago
It is in fact unconstitutional for the executive branch to withhold funds approved by Congress. Congress has the sole power of the purse as Nixon tested (and lost).

bloopernova 2y ago

Whatever your political beliefs can you at least agree that suddenly removing billions from the economy, by not paying or firing people, is reckless? These are your fellow US citizens, not faceless robots or zombies in a computer game. They have lives, family, hopes, and a third of the country wants to put them on the streets? Why do you dehumanize with such fervor?

vdupras 2y ago

Shouldn't this send US credit rating to junk status or something? This is money that is contractually owed, right?

ChrisArchitect 2y ago

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910345