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Elon got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good if we agree with him, and it's only if we agree with him. Elon can't do and won't do anything without our approval. And we'll give him the approval where appropriate, and where not appropriate, we won't. Where we think there's a conflict, we won't let him go near it."
President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House last week
Maybe there have been some mistakes made, but I think the intensity and the focus on getting rid of the wasteful spending—the one guy who can unlock people who somehow get locked in a restroom in a national park? This is ridiculous. So, the arguments you are seeing from the left are pretty darn crazy when you think about 'oh we are spending money for crazy things,'
Jordan saidWe have a solemn responsibility to be good stewards of the American people's hard-earned taxpayer dollars and to ensure that every dollar spent goes to serve the people, not the bureaucracy,
a USDA statement read in part, per NBC News
The lands are all still there, but there won't be anybody to manage them. I'm afraid people will lose access if there's no staff to maintain and operate the campgrounds, service the cabins, clean the bathroom. The public isn't going to get served."
Former forestry technician Kevin Farrell told NBC News on ThursdayThese folks aren't the swamp. They aren't bureaucrats. They feel like the government doesn't have their backs."
Steve Gutierrez, with the National Federation of Federal Workers, told NBC News on ThursdayWe can't realize our potential for responsible energy and mineral development if we can't permit projects. We will be less prepared to manage summer wildfires if we can't support those on the front lines. Our tourism economy will be damaged if we don't maintain our world-class national parks and forests."
She added
Regarding the 44,000 figure, I’m confident that the vast majority of those are legit payments. So while there probably is some fraud, I don’t think these numbers show any evidence of it,
Andrew Biggs, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank who served as principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration during the George W. Bush administration, told CNN last week
The reported data are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record. These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits,
Dudek saidReuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for ‘large scale social deception’. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.”
He wrote on XMaybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security ... This might be the biggest fraud in the history of humanity.”
Musk joked ... then addedThere’s no mystery why the child tax credit increased in 2018 and again during the pandemic. The growth is the direct result of child tax credit expansions signed into law by President Trump and then President Biden to increase the credit’s maximum value, refundability and availability,
Erica York, vice president of federal tax policy at the Tax Foundation think tank, told CNN
Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. And we’re just getting started…”
Kirk wroteThat money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!” ... They took money from FEMA, meant for helping Americans in distress, and sent that money to luxury hotels for illegal immigrants in New York.”
Musk then added ... He repeated the claim at a conservative conference on Thursday
Now that the Democrats are upset, it’s because Donald Trump has empowered Elon Musk and his team to use that same discretion given to the federal government by the progressives to unwind the very leviathan that they created,
Donalds said
It has to do with a very simple thing, they love the massive bloat in waste,
Donalds went onResponding to this email would take less than 2 minutes for any truly productive person
A former Energy Department nuclear scientist wrote on social media
Now, government sector employees are being asked to do the same,
she continuedFiring someone who was unable or unwilling to respond would be found to be a disproportionate punishment by a labor arbitrator
Suzanne Summerlin, a labor attorney and expert in federal labor relations, told NPROnce again, Elon Musk and the Trump administration have shown their utter disdain for federal employees and the critical services they provide to the American people,
said Everett Kelley, the AFGE's president
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Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week, ... Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation."
Musk wrote on X