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The_Deplorable says

If true that's crap. But I also always question where they get these net worths from? I know they have disclosure and forms they have to fill out. It is easy to hide money though. He could be having donors and lobbyist give him $9,900 cash daily 365 days a year. Wouldn't trigger a damn thing.

It's a game 99.9% of us don't know. There are so many loopholes in the system. Unless they inherited a family home paid off and invest and bank their salary for 40 years, even then no chance you have 85M. Maybe 15-20M at that salary.

WookieMan says

The_Deplorable says

If true that's crap. But I also always question where they get these net worths from? I know they have disclosure and forms they have to fill out. It is easy to hide money though. He could be having donors and lobbyist give him $9,900 cash daily 365 days a year. Wouldn't trigger a damn thing.

It's a meme, thus no validation required. Someone on twatter said so and someome else made a screenshot. YOU CAN TAKE IT TO THE BANK AND DEPOSIT AS SOLID GOLD.

Of course, congresscritters do engage in insider trading. Chucky does, Pelosi does and MTG just did practically in the open.

RWSGFY says

Of course, congresscritters do engage in insider trading.

Insider trading for Congress is specifically allowed. Despicable, but not nearly as bad as laundered bribes. At least with insider trading, there is nobody to grant favors to. Book deals, speaking fees, high paying jobs for relatives, and high paying jobs after leaving Congress all are paybacks for services rendered.

Much ado about nothing.

RWSGFY says

Much ado about nothing.

About $3k per taxpaying household. Makes for a decent weekend getaway.

The_Deplorable says

Is there a detailed list of these?

HeadSet says

Is there a detailed list of these?

Probably not. It's a meme. No one can copy and paste a link anymore or just type what they saw. The internet is becoming a picture book for adults. Or children? I don't know which at this point.

Misc says

About $3k per taxpaying household. Makes for a decent weekend getaway.

$3k for just a weekend? I need to start a travel thread. I can do that for 7 days with 5 people and it still be a great trip. Not a knock.

If it's just a couple I could turn that into a massive vacation. Or a really upscale 5 day trip.

To the OP I agree any cuts are good cuts. Not sure why people complain about it. Remember we've shut the border down basically. You have to figure that into the accounting.

True?

Patrick says

True?

Musk says any BS he likes and people believe him because he has had business successes. Where are the robotaxis? It is amazing how much latitude people with "successful businesses" are given. People in the US worship them.

psychoh says

Patrick says

True?

Musk says any BS he likes and people believe him because he has had business successes. Where are the robotaxis? It is amazing how much latitude people with "successful businesses" are given. People in the US worship them.

The left set all bars so impossibly low.

psychoh says

Musk says any BS he likes and people believe him because he has had business successes. Where are the robotaxis? It is amazing how much latitude people with "successful businesses" are given. People in the US worship them.

The first Tesla Robotaxi network is coming out in 6 weeks in Austin, TX.

The latest version of Tesla FSD is absolutely amazing.

What Elon has already accomplished in rocketry with SpaceX alone is sufficient to give him wide latitude to be an independent set of eyes with DOGE IMO.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1iwxh29/history_of_tesla_robotaxi_announcements/
Meanwhile .. Waymo's are currently buzzing around in San Francisco (only a touch more difficult than Austin lol)

I don't even care about robotaxis, just that billionaires are not accountable and actively fuck us for even more billions.
Bill Burr in '28 https://www.cracked.com/article_46212_bill-burr-rips-sweatshops-and-ai-slave-labor-amid-trade-wars.html

Wouldn't DOGE savings estimates be slashed every time some activist judge intervenes and forces the rampant corrupt spending to continue?

socal2 says

What Elon has already accomplished in rocketry with SpaceX alone is sufficient to give him wide latitude to be an independent set of eyes with DOGE IMO.

Never had an issue with Musk. But if his task was to cut, I'd expect at least $500B to $1T in the first year. It's on Trump as well. More money is wasted on states where Senators are the decision maker and not the House Rep. Dick Durbin or Tammy Duckworth don't have a clue what is going on in my town, let alone Trump.

Problem is 60-70% of people don't even know their house rep. So they're free to money approved for shit that doesn't matter and help buddies out. Congress is broken and so is the intelligence of American citizens.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/forked-redux-wednesday-april-16-2025

They’re forked again! Yesterday, Bloomberg ran an encouraging story headlined, “Federal Workers Jump at Buyout Offers They Once Shunned.” DOGE sent a second buyout offer to federal employees, coloquially called “Fork in the Road Part 2,” and this time they seem to be listening. They should take the deal or quit complaining.

This time, Fork 2 is being stabbed from each agency, rather than as a centralized offer like Fork 1. Bloomberg reported that about 20,000 IRS employees —about 20% of the agency’s staff— accepted the forking offer. By comparison, only 3,700 of them took the first stab. The paper also reported that 3,700 prodded DOE workers took the new deal (double the 1,300 who jumped the first time), and 4,000 DOT workers have so far signed on (about 7% of the agency’s total).

It seems to be everywhere. Politico said the Pentagon’s entire “Digital Design Services” team is taking the deal (all 14 of them, but still).

Wow - it's been all of 3 months with nonstop judicial and bureaucratic obstacles (even death threats!) and DOGE hasn't managed to cut TRILLIONS from our Federal government yet?

Total losers - right?

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1913741904887370170

DOGE CLEARED IN NLRB WHISTLEBLOWER FIASCO — NOW THE ACCUSER’S IN THE HOT SEAT

Daniel J. Berulis claimed Elon’s DOGE team hacked into the NLRB — that’s the National Labor Relations Board — and funneled sensitive data to Russia.

One problem: they never had a login. Not even a password reset email.

Turns out Berulis filed a national security complaint based on a gut feeling, not evidence.

Now folks are asking the DOJ to investigate him — because making up a spy story isn’t a harmless mix-up.

Former Donald Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon says something isn’t passing the smell test with Elon Musk’s work at the Department of Government Efficiency.

“None of this makes sense,” Bannon told Ben Smith, the editor in chief of Semafor, during the World Economy Summit.

“We need to have a very specific accounting of what he found, as far as fraud goes and waste, and I mean details,” Bannon said.

Bannon also said he wants a letter of certification showing that no one has taken any data from the Trump administration or government, to which Semafor’s editor-in-chief Ben Smith asked, “Sounds like you don’t trust [Musk] not to take data?”

“Trust, but verify,” Bannon responded.

Meh! Where are the TRILLIONS they promised by now?!!

Bannon says Elon is a fraud!


https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1917005802017329563
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-treasury-unexpectedly-reports-sharp-drop-debt-borrowing-needs-rates-slilde

Trump Has Frozen Nearly A Half-Trillion Dollars ... So Far

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion of congressionally approved funding, the top Democrats on the U.S. Congress' appropriation committees said on Tuesday.

The frozen allotments span the federal government, according to the first estimate of the potential impoundments in the project led by Senator Patty Murray from Washington and Representative Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut.
Almost $42 billion was frozen or canceled for the State Department, including the frozen support for USAID, along with another $62 billion-plus in competitive grant funding for the Transportation Department, according to the estimate.

The Democrats also detailed $943 million frozen for the Head Start early-education program and more than $10 billion in frozen and canceled funding for the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

"Just 100 days into office, President Trump and Elon Musk are continuing their unprecedented assault on our nation's spending laws, and it is families, small businesses, and communities in every part of the country who are paying the price," Murray and DeLauro said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-withholding-43687-billion-in-approved-spending-top-democrats-say/ar-AA1DPiHD

socal2 says

DeLauro said

Patrick says

Must See Segment with Elon Musk and the DOGE kids

Terabytes of data deleted, Fraud evidence referred to DOJ, and it's just beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uhiwIFUoKQ&t=1s

~$175 billion to student loan forgiveness
+$50 billion a year to US AID and related programs
+$10 billion for mortgage assistance

I wish Trump would have a report card which would show how much of Birdbrain Biden aid is reduced or targeted for reduction

https://x.com/maggiewise111/status/1919547743032279529

AD says

I wish Trump would have a report card which would show how much of Birdbrain Biden aid is reduced or targeted for reduction

DOGE has a tracker on their website.

https://doge.gov/savings

Who could be against this?

https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1919766989314125854

socal2 says

Who could be against this?

People on the receiving end of the grift.

Booger says

Would like to see a chart on this showing other races just to show how insane that number is.

https://thepostmillennial.com/doge-deactivates-over-500000-credit-cards-across-dozens-of-federal-agencies

DOGE deactivates over 500,000 credit cards across dozens of federal agencies

In a post on X, DOGE announced that the over 500,000 suspended cards span across 32 federal agencies. DOGE added that at the start of the audit, there were roughly 4.6 million active credit cards and accounts in use.

“The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated,” DOGE said in its post. "As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/2-6-25/

Elon Musk Reveals DOGE Discovered 100,000 Active Federal Employees Who Were Also Collecting Unemployment Insurance...

Elon Musk: We’ve actually found there’s a lot of people who are federal government employees. They’re active employees who nonetheless applied for and have received unemployment insurance. While they’re federal employees? Yes. Wow. And this appears to be at least 100,000 people.

Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents.

After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases that had a high probability of being fraudulent.

The anti-fraud tool set up last month after weeks of changes to the agency’s telephone policies has slowed retirement claim processing by 25% and led to a "degradation of public service,” according to an internal May document that examined potentially cutting the anti-fraud tool for phone claims.

Under the new policy, the agency found that only two benefit claims out of over 110,000 had a high probability of being fraudulent — and they aren’t guaranteed to be so. Less than 1% of claims were flagged as even potentially fraudulent at all.

“No significant fraud has been detected from the flagged cases,” the internal document said.

The attention to fraud, however, did cause delays, as SSA changed its phone procedures to add the checks on the backend.

The lags stem from the three-day hold placed on telephone claims in order to run the antifraud claims, a move that “delays payments and benefits to customers, despite an extremely low risk of fraud,” as the document noted.

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/05/doge-went-looking-phone-fraud-ssa-and-found-almost-none/405346/