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No, he’s not taking the presidency…That’s not happening.”
In a speech, Trump felt the need to clarify 100 percent Trump is annoyed,
a source who worked on Trump’s re-election campaign told Mediaite in December There are an overwhelming number of ethical issues that are raised by his appointment as an SGE and the range of access he seems to enjoy across the executive branch,
Musk should exceed any of the transparency rules and recuse himself from meetings that conflict with his companies' contracts and regulatory interests,
said Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight Elon Musk is selflessly serving President Trump’s administration as a special government employee, and he has abided by all applicable federal laws,
If he goes to 131 days, somebody is going to go into court and say he’s really a full-time employee and demand to see his financial disclosure forms,
Special government employees have been a pain in the neck since Day One,
said Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. We think the idea that if you’re rich enough, you can essentially buy opacity over transparency is a real problem,
Great, bigballs has my social security number, now I feel better!"
Elon was able to buy his way into the government and now he’s blowing it up like a Tesla in Self Driving Mode,
said Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Tuesday, taking time in his monologue to call out the Trump-supporting tech billionaire's aggressive White House takeover You’re the richest man on Earth! You want to take over HR?"
Those of us who have worked at Elon's companies can see his fingerprints all over what's happening inside the federal government right now,
said Thomas Moline, a former SpaceX senior avionics engineer They could get to pick and choose which payments the federal government makes,
Linden said in an interview We don’t have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk,
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, told reporters during a protest outside USAID headquarters Musk. No one is really talking about Trump."
Asked who they are more worried about when it comes to the prospect of being fired, an employee of the General Services Administration that manages federal property and services said Musk has unprecedented and centralized control of the basic plumbing of government,
It 1,000% feels like Elon Musk is running the government,
said an official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who was granted anonymity to speak freely out of fear of retaliation Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees,
Martin said in a statement He’s moving at light speed in a way that we’ve never seen before, delivering on reforms that have been promised not just by Trump, but by the conservative movement for 45 years,
Don’t mess with @DOGE.”
Muck quickly responded on X to the announcement with a warning