WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that Elon Musk, whose companies have received over $15 billion from the U.S. government, will personally decide when there’s a conflict of interest involving him and DOGE.

So reassuring

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away.

It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.

We're all collectively in a societal bystander effect as we watch Elon Musk and Trump collapse the United States and no one is doing anything about it. Everyone just expects someone else to do something.

Everyone is that someone now. The only offramp now is physical mass mobilization in DC.

I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below:

newrepublic.com/article/1910...

If Elon Musk and his unsanctioned team of techno thieves and pirates are interfering with any payments designated by Congress, that’s a flat-out crime

And Democratic Attorneys General in every state need to prosecute them

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.