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> On Sunday Reuters reported the Trump administration removed two top security officials at USAID during the weekend after they tried to stop representatives fr
by dialup_sounds 2y ago
> On Sunday Reuters reported the Trump administration removed two top security officials at USAID during the weekend after they tried to stop representatives from Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from gaining access to restricted parts of the building, three sources said.
It will be interesting to see how this approach plays out when Musk gets around to the $800 billion dollar Department of Defense.
- xor-eax-eax 2y agoThe extra $40 billion or so taken as tariffs from ordinary people will add to the DoD-MIC, NASA (for SpaceX), and DOGE budgets to transfer wealth via corporate welfare. And the "savings" from destroying essential services like the NIH and CDC will undoubtedly go that way too. It's a cash grab.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoI wonder if any of the young men he sent to do this have HN accounts. There's reporting suggesting these people might have been recruited as volunteers on Twitter and then sent into various government departments to commit what look a lot like crimes.