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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Elon Musk claims his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is shutting down payments to federal contractors, including a Lutheran charity, asserting it is eliminating corruption.

This suggests DOGE has access to Treasury’s payment systems, though officials have not confirmed the extent.

Senator Ron Wyden warned that DOGE may interfere with Social Security, Medicare, and government contracts.

Musk also called USAID “a criminal organization” that should “die,” amid DOGE’s growing influence over federal financial operations.

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[-] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 96 points 1 year ago

This isn’t even what the most diehard conservatives out there voted for

[-] ProIsh@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

Fucking yes.

All conservatives at the tables with all these nazis asking who voted in all the nazis.

At this point your party has folded. Keep saying "but not meeeee, I'm a real conservative!" All you want.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Hungarian here, whose face got eaten by the leopards.

Political illiteracy is a serious problem, and so is the access to information. They actually thought the crime rates were up, because the very few news outlets they're exposed to likes to uplift a few cases with scary headlines, often making anniversary reports on some crimes. They actually thought, that the opposition was "too far-left", because pundits told them so, and they learned in school the real nazis did evil things for the sole sake of evil, thus people that say they want to eliminate crime, and have crime statistics must not be far-right.

This is not for to excuse their behavior, but to explain it. Maybe can even lead to an end of this cycle.

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