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2025-02-01 Government Corruption

A 5-D strategy to dismantle to overweening bureaucratic state?

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Posted by Omoluger Ulising2352 2025-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Here's What Caused a Career Treasury Official to Quit After a Run-in With Elon Musk's Allies
The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department left the agency after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-01 02:37|| 2025-02-01 02:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Lawyers are expensive and courtroom discovery can be a bitc*.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-01 03:54|| 2025-02-01 03:54|| Front Page Top

#3 He's going nuclear. The Constitution says advise and consent, it says nothing about firing. He'll take it to SCOTUS on 'separation of powers'. Congress doesn't determine who gets selected or or kept or fired for the law clerks in the judiciary. That's all within one branch's prerogative. He'll argue the same applies to the executive branch. That places SCOTUS in the proverbial horns of a dilemma.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-01 07:48|| 2025-02-01 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 About that career Treasury officer:

Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
We are entering the "WTF" discovery phase of DOGE.
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Elon Musk

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The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

Not even once. x.com/robbystarbuck/…
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… Not even once.
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Robby Starbuck
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The highest ranking Treasury official, David A Lebryk, is resigning rather than complying with a request by @DOGE for access to audit where they’ve spent trillions of dollars a year. Why would career bureaucrats fear an audit by @elonmusk and @doge to see where we can save money?

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-01 10:06|| 2025-02-01 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The Bobs have arrived for the Feds.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-01 10:22|| 2025-02-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 My sister-in-law, who works at the VA, got the buy-out offer email, and doesn’t know what to do. She was previously scheduled to retire in the second quarter of this year, and now needs to figure out whether taking the buy-out and functionally leaving immediately would be better — or even an option — but unfortunately the FAQs she was given don’t answer any of her specific questions.

So if any of the DOGE crew happen to read Rantburg, or if there’s a Rantburger who has a connection there, any guidance would be gratefully received. Jo is actually one of the good ones — always cheerful and upbeat, bright, hardworking, professional… and quietly a conservative Trump voter from the beginning.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-01 11:02|| 2025-02-01 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Not knowing any "buy out" facts, I'd be holding out for the 2nd quarter retirement.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-01 11:05|| 2025-02-01 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 TW, I am not connected but have looked at the buyout stuff while I was a GM employee. There is usually a target demographic and a percentage that they are after. To me this looks like a lure for young people that are not doing appreciable work or have been doing low level activism on company time. It also might be an arbitration strategy for negotiating whatever grievance results from the housecleaning. If your sister is already working with HR regarding her retirement it seems OK to point out that she received an email that lacked enough info to evaluate it. It sounds like the idea has been presented without details because the brainstorming is still in progress

Posted by Clegum Ebbolumble3473 2025-02-01 12:55|| 2025-02-01 12:55|| Front Page Top

#9 That was me.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-01 12:57|| 2025-02-01 12:57|| Front Page Top

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