Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared war on the federal government and its multitude of agencies, a totally destructive and dangerous move that will undermine economic, social, and political stability, and threaten American national security.
Among the government agencies being attacked and damaged are, in no special order:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Central Intelligence Agency
US Agency For International Development
Department of Justice
Department of Defense
Department of the Treasury
Department of Labor
Department of Veterans Affairs
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Centers for Disease Control And Prevention
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Food and Drug Administration
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Office of Management and Budget
Office of Personnel Management
General Services Administration
Social Security Administration
The Department of Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Environmental Protection Agency
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Product Safety Commission
National Labor Relations Board
Public Broadcasting Service
National Public Radio
These agencies were created under many Presidential administrations, both Democratic and Republican, since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt more than nine decades ago!
The Senate has voted to confirm Russ Vought as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, after Senate Democrats held the floor overnight in a marathon of speeches to protest Vought’s nomination.
The vote was 53-47, on party lines.
Energy secretary let 23-year-old DOGE representative access IT systems over objections from general counsel.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to bypass the Fed to lower interest rates.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/economy/bessent-interest-rates-without-fed/index.html
Several top Senate Democrats have sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demanding that he meet with them about Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to federal payment systems at the Treasury.
Musk’s DOGE goons remind me of the movie WarGames. In the movie, a young computer hacker unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III.
Whatever they are doing with the computer systems, they are up to no good. Reminds me of the fat dude in Jurassic Park, who intentionally causes the computers to crash, resulting in the dinosaurs getting loose.
Some State Department and USAID employees have told NBC News that they are concerned about information in their personal devices may be being monitored.
https://www.msnbc.com/chris-jansing-reports/watch/state-dept-usaid-workers-concerned-personal-devices-are-being-monitored-231299141803
Polling shows Musk’s popularity is in the toilet,
USAID has been cut from 10,000 personnel around the world to fewer than 300 people.
Trump signed an executive order yesterday fighting against “anti-Christian bias”. The executive order creates a new task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias,” and halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government. The new attorney general, Pam Bonid, will head the task force.
Oops. Made a typo. That should be Pam Bondi, not Bonid.
If this is the end-times, then Trump is the anti-Christ described about in Revelations!
New reporting on Musk’s minions makes his government takeover team look even worse.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-reporting-on-musk-s-minions-makes-his-government-takeover-team-look-even-worse-231357509563
Trump has imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court over Israel probe.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/icc-trump-international-criminal-court-sanctions
Trump’s Assault on USAID Makes Project 2025 Look Like Child’s Play
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/usaid-musk-trump-project-2025/681590/
Elon Musk’s efforts to slash the U.S. government could be a huge boon to China—a country to which Musk has significant financial ties.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191265/elon-musk-us-china-usaid-tesla
No question, China is LOVING this!
Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-disbands-task-force-targeting-russian-oligarchs-2025-02-06/
Putin has got to be SO happy right now with Trump destroying the United States – doing Putin’s work for him!
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/health/cdc-bird-flu-cats-people.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.Bc1l.sn91i-uVdRSO&smid=url-share
Doomsday scenario –
What would happen if the administration refused to recognize court rulings — even one handed down by the Supreme Court?
The constitutional remedy for a president who breaks the law is impeachment, but Republicans have twice shown that they will not hold Trump to account in such trials, making moot this key check on power envisioned by the founders.
OMG! This is bonkers!
White House Preparing Order to Cut Thousands of Federal Health Workers
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/white-house-preparing-order-to-cut-thousands-of-federal-health-workers-bd1e0b7f?st=jRECP9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93?st=AawTSB&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/06/elon-musk-doge-ai-department-education/
DOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administration
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/inside-doges-march-with-the-social-security-administration-soon-to-come
Trump orders key government agency to cancel all media contracts.
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/trump-politico-subscriptions-doge-elon-musk
Trump taps televangelist kook to run new White House ‘faith’ office.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/6/2301871/-Trump-taps-televangelist-kook-to-run-new-White-House-faith-office
The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission posted a letter from President Donald Trump informing her that she’d been fired, but she’s refusing to leave.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-07/trump-fires-head-of-fec-but-ellen-weintraub-won-t-leave
Info about Elon Musk’s demolition crew:
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
This is very cruel!
US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/india/india-trump-shackles-deportations-intl-hnk/index.html
Musk still has his Tesla floating around in space. Astronomers briefly thought it was an asteroid.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/science/spacex-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-asteroid-astronomers/index.html
Elon Musk is threatening to withhold funding from Lutheran organizations.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/elon-musk-doge-lutheran-immigrants-flynn-bishop-budde-rcna190505
Trump wants the names of federal workers who are less than “fully successful”.
Russell Vought, who is the main author of the Project 2025 plot to annihilate the federal government, and who now is the director of Office Management and Budget, wants to turn the country into a Christian Nationalist paradise.
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/10/donald-man-to-make-america-a-great-christian-nation-has-even-bigger-plans/
Pam Bondi issued an order titled, “Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences” and ordered a report from the Civil Rights Division on the private sector’s “illegal” use of DEI for potential criminal investigation.
Her use of DEIA, which adds “accessibility” to the usual DEI slur indicates they are prepared to challenge the Americans With Disabilities Act as discriminatory which is all the way through the looking glass.
Time magazine’s latest cover has Musk sitting behind the president’s desk.
Federal funding for education, environmental and health programs remains blocked despite a court order against President Donald Trump’s funding freeze, several Democratic states told a federal judge Friday.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt its plans to put at least 2,200 employees at the US Agency for International Development on administrative leave tonight.
Trump told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday that he has directed Elon Musk to review “just about everything” including Pentagon and education spending.
Trump says “I’m with the VP” on bringing back DOGE staffer who resigned over racist posts.
Musk wants to bring the DOGE staffer back as well.
One of Musk’s DOGE goons blocked Senate Democrats from being able to enter the Department of Education today.
My mistake. It was House Democrats who were blocked from getting in, not Senate.
Trump has revoked Joe Biden’s security clearance.
Trump announces plans to gut the Kennedy Center board and appoint himself chairman.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/trump-kennedy-center-board/index.html
Trump’s administration has dismissed Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan.
In addition to that:
Trump directed the attorney general to review and assess any actions taken by the federal government between January 2021 and January 2025 — during the Biden administration — that they view as infringing upon Second Amendment rights.
Third plane crash on Trump’s watch.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/us/alaska-cessna-bering-air-hnk/index.html
Rachel Maddow just said that anti-Musk posters are being put up all over DC.
A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/politics/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-system/index.html
Pentagon boots CNN and Washington Post from workspace in favor of smaller conservative outlets.
‘Reciprocal’ tariffs on every country to be announced next week, Trump says.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-announced-next-week-00203165
Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/08/trump-south-africa-aid-afrikaners/
Sounds like something Musk would want.
Justin Trudeau reportedly says Trump’s talk of making Canada a US state is ‘a real thing’.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-tariffs-trudeau-trump-5cfe160c66f90b973d90ea7810cddbe5
Makes you wonder if Canada is thinking about building nuclear weapons to defend itself.
Trump is “angry” that deportation numbers are not higher.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-angry-deportation-numbers-are-not-higher-rcna/191273