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> In July, Cornyn and Cruz successfully added language to the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" championed by President Donald Trump, which enabled acting NASA Admin

> In July, Cornyn and Cruz successfully added language to the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" championed by President Donald Trump, which enabled acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy to then identify Discovery for relocation. The provision also called for $85 million to be made available to transport and display the shuttle in Houston. Every single rhetorical overtone about eliminating waste — from DOGE to legislative “fiscal responsibility” — is at best in bad faith and on average a lie.

aynyc 1y ago
DOGE was a data grab by private parties, nothing more.
- yard2010 1y ago
  Ha that makes so much sense.
- rtkwe 1y ago
  It also was a convenient attack on various regulators that Musk personally disliked and the GOP broadly have been wanting to gut for years.
  - aynyc 1y ago
    Yes, but it's more of theatrics for the masses. Whoever DOGE is now have sensitive data on just about every Americans. With that, you can plan your next 10 years.
    - rtkwe 1y ago
      It was but it did also end and hamper future investigations by agencies like the FCC, CFBP, NHTSA, etc that had investigated or would be overseeing future businesses (eg Elon always talks about making X and 'Everything App' which would include transactions and quasi-banking which would be in CFBP's jurisdiction). I'm fairly sure that was Elon's main goal, slash the ability for regulators to get in his way because they've been a constant minor nuisance to him and he saw a chance to hamstring them going forward even if Democrats get back in power soon the agencies will have a drastically reduced investigatory and regulatory efficacy just from losing the people that know how to do it. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-trump-doge-conflicts-of-interest https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-...
philipallstar 1y ago
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- ceejayoz 1y ago
  Musk's real issue was probably that said bill nixed the EV tax credit, exacerbated by withdrawing the nomination of Musk's hand-picked choice for NASA administrator.

aynyc 1y ago

DOGE was a data grab by private parties, nothing more.

yard2010 1y ago
Ha that makes so much sense.
rtkwe 1y ago
It also was a convenient attack on various regulators that Musk personally disliked and the GOP broadly have been wanting to gut for years.
- aynyc 1y ago
  Yes, but it's more of theatrics for the masses. Whoever DOGE is now have sensitive data on just about every Americans. With that, you can plan your next 10 years.
  - rtkwe 1y ago
    It was but it did also end and hamper future investigations by agencies like the FCC, CFBP, NHTSA, etc that had investigated or would be overseeing future businesses (eg Elon always talks about making X and 'Everything App' which would include transactions and quasi-banking which would be in CFBP's jurisdiction). I'm fairly sure that was Elon's main goal, slash the ability for regulators to get in his way because they've been a constant minor nuisance to him and he saw a chance to hamstring them going forward even if Democrats get back in power soon the agencies will have a drastically reduced investigatory and regulatory efficacy just from losing the people that know how to do it. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-trump-doge-conflicts-of-interest https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-...

philipallstar 1y ago

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ceejayoz 1y ago
Musk's real issue was probably that said bill nixed the EV tax credit, exacerbated by withdrawing the nomination of Musk's hand-picked choice for NASA administrator.