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Your money is now under the control of an unelected foreign billionaire
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Feb 1
Musk and his allies are ransacking the federal treasury, gaining access to closely guarded payment systems that disburse trillions of dollars and hold massive amounts of incredibly sensitive information—including Social Security numbers. Just a terrifying development. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to three people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending. The new authority follows a standoff this week with a top Treasury official who had resisted allowing Mr. Musk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out money on behalf of the entire federal government. The official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was put on leave and then suddenly retired on Friday after the dispute, according to people familiar with his exit.
February 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
We've driven over fifteen thousand calls and emails to Congress in the last 36 hours. Keep it up, y'all.
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jan 29
Russell Vought is the architect of Trump’s power grab — he’s the human embodiment of this unconstitutional OMB memo. Senate Democrats must throw everything they’ve got into sinking Vought’s nomination for OMB director. Let them know that you’re paying attention: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
(next to an image of Russell Vought) WHO IS TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR OMB DIRECTOR? Russell Vought-Trump's OMB director for the last two years of his first term. After Trump's loss in 2020, Vought became the architect of Project 2025 - MAGA extremists' plan to transform the federal government into a tool of white Christian nationalism and political revenge. Vought supports nationwide abortion abolition and massive cuts to life-saving programs like Social Security and Medicare. He's also vowed to push unconstitutional spending schemes to get Trump's agenda
January 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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thekatiele.bsky.social
Morning! In the name of democracy, here's a list of things to do today:

1. Call your senators & reps w/ real stories about how the admin's actions impact you & people you care about

2. Do something that makes you smile

Take action.
Find joy.

Protect democracy.

h/t: @hcrichardson.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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govevers.wisconsin.gov
NEW: I'm announcing with Attorney General Josh Kaul that Wisconsin is joining a coalition of states to stop the Trump Administration from withholding critical federal investments from Wisconsinites and our state. My statement ⬇️
January 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM