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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago

Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors

www.bloomberg.com

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Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors

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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago
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Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors
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Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down some payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the US Treasury Department.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36918021

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36917814

https://archive.ph/2025.02.03-011054/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-02/musk-says-doge-is-rapidly-shutting-down-treasury-payments

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  • Khoryphos [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Imagine if some DOGE incel accidentally cuts off Raytheon and their whole team gets black bagged lmao

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      inshallah

    • shath [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      lathe-of-heaven

  • DinosaurThussy [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Don’t pay your mercenaries

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    He cut off payments to a Lutheran charity. nicholson-yes

    … That helps resettle refugees. agony-immense

    These freaks are all about church being the charity that should take the role of government social services… Then they cut them off. Fucking ghouls.

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      In western spirituality there are only four rules:

      1. Don’t be a woman
      2. Don’t be queer
      3. Don’t be a PoC
      4. If you followed rules 1-3. Do whatever you want, no limits.

      EDIT: made the rules more encompassing

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        1. Don’t be a PoC
      • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Fuck

  • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    cia gunpoint-alt billionaire-tears

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Extremely critical support to the CIA assassination of Elon Musk.

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    Learning from Trump stiffing contractors all through the 80s and 90s then.

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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      so-true GENIUS business man!

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    I gotta be honest, I thought DOGE was only ever gonna be some little toy for Musk to play with that had no real power. Didn’t think it would just take over an actual department and start doing real damage, I was really wrong on that one.

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      I mean, it’s only real insofar as Trump is allowing it to be real. It would evaporate instantly if Trump played golf with someone who said it made him look like a loser. Musk isn’t actually doing anything, he’s just taking credit for things that are being done. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Musk was being set up as the scapegoat for when all of this quickly and inevitably falls apart.

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        American bit idea: everyone gets more racist when a South African becomes the scapegoat for the failures of government.

        • Sulv [he/him, undecided]@hexbear.net
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          These immigrants are ruining our country!

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    Except to himself no doubt. Is he like, a super villain that just stole all the fed’s money or something.

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    I hope that what I think could happen as a result of this does in fact happen

    illegal-to-say

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      I hope there’s video

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    color revolution of usa incoming

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      Let’s hope it’s Red.

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    yeah, defaulting on your innumerable small liabilities seems like a good idea

    real business brain

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      Also contract law is one of the things a conservative court isn’t going to overturn on behalf of trump and musk lol

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        I’ve interacted with contracts during my time at Langley monitoring leftists that would make nonpayment on what you owe a fucking paradise.

        If you say that you’re owed 5% interest on an account you’re already loving life. If you have a break clause that entitles you to dues you’re loving life. If they’ve made a down payment, you’re owed 5% interest, and you have a break clause then your cost margins just went to 0 and you can wait 2 years to sell the debt to someone else and you’re loving every minute of it, Jerry.

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      Honestly it just works, what are they gonna do?

      Seen this shit from small businesses to the US govt. It’s not like Lockheed is gonna shut down a contract

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    These DOGE pests need to be removed. Democrats are so pathetic for letting them run free. Where are the large-scale protests? Nothing is happening.

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      vote.

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      Go out and protest.

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    It seems like letting Musk run rampant in the core of the dollar system would be a stronger signal of the inherent risk in that system than anything that has come before (like stealing Russian accounts, etc). I guess until there is another option available, most of the closest US allies will just have to go for the ride.

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    The nedleB rules: don’t pay your guys, this only works if you’re american — because you have plot armor

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    It is still kind of wild to me that he can just do this with no repercussions. The democrats doing nothing is actually so embarrassing now. At least in the first Trump presidency their excuses made some sense and what Trump was doing wasn’t collapsing the country. But now its just so blatant. They literally don’t want to do anything outside the “norms” while the norms are being ripped apart by the Republicans and Musk. Like what is the point of keeping to the norms? Do any of them ask themselves this.

    I mean like some others have said, the Democrats stand for nothing. It makes sense that won’t do anything.

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      NGL, I’m surprised south park never came around and got more charitable to dems. At this point dems are the south park republicans of the 2000s, both with the whole “Who like….CAAAARES MAN?!” vibe

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    MFW the US is doing austerity because “LE FUNNY MAY-MAYS.”

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