@Donnyboy ain’t gonna like that.
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No wonder Musk's son said to Trump, "I want you to shut your fucking mouth up." Meantime,
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World.
https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/191580/elon-musk-doge-classified-us-intel-data-website
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Munich Security Conference: Vance attack on Europe ignores Ukraine and defence agenda
Instead, US Vice President JD Vance shocked delegates by roundly attacking Washington's allies, accusing them of censorship.
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That's exactly where I'm at. Learning about USAID has been an eye opener.
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I'm guessing nothing will come of this.... because DOGE, and we all know Trump doesn't care about protecting classified information
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Honest question, what have you learned about USAID that has been an eye opener, and where did you learn about it? Was it from a legitimate news source or was it from Facebook and/or twiX?
I am against government waste, fraud, and abuse, and I know there is some out there. However, most of the examples I have read from DOGE so far have been wildly exaggerated and/or false and misleading. I have also learned that some farm state Republicans now want to walk back or transfer the responsibility of some of the programs that were cut at USAID to the USDA because they involve the purchase of grain and other commodities from US farmers.
Like I said I am all for eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, and if someone can show me legitimate examples I may change my mind. However, I am appalled by the indiscriminate mass firings and dismantling of entire agencies regardless of whether or not they served important functions. It may sound like all fun and games to some, but these are people's lives, American lives.
I wonder what unemployment numbers are gonna look like in 3 months. It seems like alot of jobs the public sector is shedding and if the private sector is struggling like the administration contends they won't be able to pick up the slack
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Friend of a coworker works for NOAA. She was the admin for their #3 for a couple years until she got tired of the constant travel and wanted to have a kid. So she took an internal transfer to a different position and someone messed up her paperwork so she got flagged as new hire last year. Now she is wrongly in probationary period, fearing for her job while very pregnant.
I think something similar happened to this guy. He took this job which was a promotion from his prior job so that put him on probation again. Same thing happened to me when I went from part-time to full-time they restarted my probationary period. Seemed stupid to me as I was doing the exact same job.
The Trump administration has suggested to Ukraine that the U.S. be granted 50% ownership of the country’s rare earth minerals, and signaled an openness to deploying American troops there to guard them if there’s a deal with Russia to end the war, four U.S. officials say.
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The Trump administration has suggested to Ukraine that the U.S. be granted 50% ownership of the country’s rare earth minerals, and signaled an openness to deploying American troops there to guard them if there’s a deal with Russia to end the war, four U.S. officials say.
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Officials at the civilian agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile were given hours to fire hundreds of employees, and workers were shut out of email as termination notices arrived. But some people who were told they were terminated never received written notification. "Nobody knows if they're fired or not," one employee told NPR.
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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BREAKING: The Trump Administration is now rescinding their firing of dozens of DOE staffers after it turned out they help run our nuclear program.
The incompetence is staggering
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Officials at the civilian agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile were given hours to fire hundreds of employees, and workers were shut out of email as termination notices arrived. But some people who were told they were terminated never received written notification. "Nobody...
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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BREAKING: The Trump Administration is now rescinding their firing of dozens of DOE staffers after it turned out they help run our nuclear program.
The incompetence is staggering
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BREAKING: The Trump Administration is now rescinding their firing of dozens of DOE staffers after it turned out they help run our nuclear program. The incompetence is staggering.
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say: https://cnn.it/3QmZ5tb
Speaking of farm state republicans, being that DOGE wants to cut the federal government to the bone, why are we subsidizing crop insurance for farmers? Everyone else running a business pays their own insurance. Why can't farmers figure that out as part of their business model?
Just seems as usual, they want to cut the spending that they want to cut. There is no honesty, no principle, no backbone.
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I actually like the idea of defense of Ukraine in exchange for interest in rare earth metal.The Trump administration has suggested to Ukraine that the U.S. be granted 50% ownership of the country’s rare earth minerals, and signaled an openness to deploying American troops there to guard them if there’s a deal with Russia to end the war, four U.S. officials say.
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The Trump administration has suggested to Ukraine that the U.S. be granted 50% ownership of the country’s rare earth minerals, and signaled an openness to deploying American troops there to guard them if there’s a deal with Russia to end the war, four U.S. officials say.
That’s a helluva a whiplash from what Hegseth was saying earlier this week.
There is a difference, legally, between waste, fraud, and public appropriations that I might disagree with.
What I’ve seen so far from DOGE so far has been calling public appropriations that they disagree with “fraud”. That isn’t fraud. It may be wasteful, it may have been dumb policy appropriations by Congress, but it isn’t fraud.
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