By Michael Woyton
A legal filing in a lawsuit against President Elon Musk answered the question of what the world’s richest man actually does for the people of the United States.
The lawsuit was brought last week by 14 states seeking to block Musk and his DOGErs from freezing federal funds, taking over agencies and accessing our data, according to Democracy Docket.
In response to the suit, the director of the White House’s Office of Administration, Joshua Fisher, explained “under penalty of perjury” that Musk is “a special Government Employee (SGE), which according to federal law is a temporary employee appointed to serve in the executive or legislative branch for no more than 130 consecutive days in a one-year period,” Courtney Cohn of Democracy Docket wrote.
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Fisher explained that, as a “senior advisor” to President Donald J. Felon, the man who continues to impregnate woman — he’s up to 13 children with four women — has “no greater authority than other senior White House advisors,” according to the filing.
Interestingly, Fisher said the U.S. DOGE Service is a component of the president’s executive office and the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is within the U.S. DOGE Service — and both are separate from the White House Office.
Musk, the filing said, is not an employee of the either the U.S. DOGE Service or the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization, nor is he an administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service.
All that begs the question, according to the New York Times, “Who, exactly, runs the so-called Department of Government Efficiency?“
Musk was front and center at a news conference last week in the Oval Office — the adjudicated rapist was seated meekly behind the Resolute Desk — and answered questions about the department.
“A lot of secrecy has surrounded DOGE despite Mr. Musk’s attempts to position it as ‘maximally transparent.’ The White House’s unwillingness to state who its administrator is only adds to that sense of opacity,” the Times reported.
Shouldn’t someone in Congress be asking these questions and demanding answers?
Or are we content to sit back and watch Musk and his DOGErs get their hands on all our data and randomly cut programs and fire civil servants?
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Here’s an interesting piece in The Intercept written by Sunjeev Bery.
He suggests that Senate Dems have a way to stop Musk, and it involves his two major companies, SpaceX and Tesla, and the filibuster.
Read The Intercept here.
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