Shannn
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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
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@warren.senate.gov: "Elon is gonna do X Money... There's just one bump in the way and that's the CFPB... He doesn't like that... Move the bump out of the way before you start. It's like a bank robber saying, 'Before I go into the lobby with my sacks, I'm just going to fire the cops.'"
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@warren.senate.gov: "Elon is gonna do X Money... There's just one bump in the way and that's the CFPB... He doesn't like that... Move the bump out of the way before you start. It's like a bank robber saying, 'Before I go into the lobby with my sacks, I'm just going to fire the cops.'"
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Your weekly reminder that the ONLY people misusing USAID money are Trump and Musk. #TraitorTrump #ArrestMusk #DrownDOGEInABathtub
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Your weekly reminder that the ONLY people misusing USAID money are Trump and Musk. #TraitorTrump #ArrestMusk #DrownDOGEInABathtub
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are putting your Social Security checks at risk.
Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are putting your Social Security checks at risk.
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Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.
February 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Let me speak to the DOGE audit language. Many people who work in both the Treasury and specifically the IRS are CPAs. Most audit firms hire CPAs. A 19yo coder has absolutely no idea how to accurately identify waste or fraud. Calling what DOGE is doing as a audit, is a flat out lie.
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We have heard Elon is going to run a bunch of anti-USAID ads today.
Don’t fall for it. This is a coordinated campaign to undermine pro-democracy efforts at home and abroad.
#AMANDLA
Don’t fall for it. This is a coordinated campaign to undermine pro-democracy efforts at home and abroad.
#AMANDLA
Russian RT Media gets caught posting fake USAID documents in an effort to get both sides to hate on #USAID
February 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We have heard Elon is going to run a bunch of anti-USAID ads today.
Don’t fall for it. This is a coordinated campaign to undermine pro-democracy efforts at home and abroad.
#AMANDLA
Don’t fall for it. This is a coordinated campaign to undermine pro-democracy efforts at home and abroad.
#AMANDLA
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Open message to Elon Musk:
Rumors are swirling that you’re spending $40 million on Super Bowl ads targeting USAID. If there were truly fraud, wouldn’t you not need to spend millions trying to convince people?
Rumors are swirling that you’re spending $40 million on Super Bowl ads targeting USAID. If there were truly fraud, wouldn’t you not need to spend millions trying to convince people?
February 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Open message to Elon Musk:
Rumors are swirling that you’re spending $40 million on Super Bowl ads targeting USAID. If there were truly fraud, wouldn’t you not need to spend millions trying to convince people?
Rumors are swirling that you’re spending $40 million on Super Bowl ads targeting USAID. If there were truly fraud, wouldn’t you not need to spend millions trying to convince people?
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BREAKING NEWS: Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 essential personnel as USAID staff in the U.S. and overseas rush to rapidly close missions and leave jobs by midnight Friday.
USAID officials direct staff on 'stunning and irresponsible' cuts to jobs and offices
Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 essential personnel as USAID staff in the U.S. and overseas rush to rapidly close missions and leave jobs by midnight Friday.
www.npr.org
February 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved less than 300 essential personnel as USAID staff in the U.S. and overseas rush to rapidly close missions and leave jobs by midnight Friday.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration is laying off nearly the entire staff of USAID, people with knowledge of the plans said. Follow live updates.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Nearly All USAID Jobs Are Said to Be Cut
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Breaking News: The Trump administration is laying off nearly the entire staff of USAID, people with knowledge of the plans said. Follow live updates.
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Marko Elez, an Elon Musk staffer with access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payments system, has quit after racist and pro-eugenics posts surfaced, including one stating, ‘Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.’
February 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Marko Elez, an Elon Musk staffer with access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payments system, has quit after racist and pro-eugenics posts surfaced, including one stating, ‘Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.’
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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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Andrew Natsios, who ran USAID under President George W. Bush and is a lifelong conservative Republican, calls such moves “illegal” and “outrageous.” What Musk and Rubio are doing “is criminal. They can’t abolish the aid program without a vote of Congress.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’
A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
www.politico.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Andrew Natsios, who ran USAID under President George W. Bush and is a lifelong conservative Republican, calls such moves “illegal” and “outrageous.” What Musk and Rubio are doing “is criminal. They can’t abolish the aid program without a vote of Congress.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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"Just since Donald Trump’s election, Musk’s personal net worth has grown by far more than the entire annual budget of U.S.A.I.D., which in any case accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget."
February 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"Just since Donald Trump’s election, Musk’s personal net worth has grown by far more than the entire annual budget of U.S.A.I.D., which in any case accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget."
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Just 3 years ago Rubio wrote a letter to Biden suggesting they *increase* the USAID budget as a tool to “counter the CCP’s expanding global influence.”
Contradicting comments he made Monday that dismissed concerns of China stepping in where USAID left.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...
Contradicting comments he made Monday that dismissed concerns of China stepping in where USAID left.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...
Rubio’s years of strong support for USAID stands in contrast to his sudden criticism of the aid agency | CNN Politics
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, newly in charge of the besieged US Agency for International Development, was for years a staunch supporter of its mission while in the US Senate, reversing his views on...
www.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just 3 years ago Rubio wrote a letter to Biden suggesting they *increase* the USAID budget as a tool to “counter the CCP’s expanding global influence.”
Contradicting comments he made Monday that dismissed concerns of China stepping in where USAID left.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...
Contradicting comments he made Monday that dismissed concerns of China stepping in where USAID left.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...
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Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the administration to suspend spending that they've already approved.
Republicans in Congress mostly shrug as Musk and DOGE set sights on spending
Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the administration to suspend spending that they've already approved.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the administration to suspend spending that they've already approved.
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Breaking news on Trump and Musk’s dismantling of USAID: Trump appointees order almost all employees to go on leave by Friday. Direct hires abroad will have to move back to US with their families. The aid programs will likely end. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
Trump Appointees to Put Almost All U.S.A.I.D. Workers on Leave
Most employees overseas have been told to return to the U.S. Democrats have denounced recent moves to shrink the agency as an illegal power grab.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Breaking news on Trump and Musk’s dismantling of USAID: Trump appointees order almost all employees to go on leave by Friday. Direct hires abroad will have to move back to US with their families. The aid programs will likely end. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
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Nobody "earns" $400 billion.
They take it.
They take it.
Frost: You mean to tell me a man worth over $400 billion is going to decide what happens with my grandma’s social security check?
February 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Nobody "earns" $400 billion.
They take it.
They take it.
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Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit
Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit
President’s plan, which is low on detail, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries
* Trump announce plan to take over Gaza - live updates
Donald Trump has vowed that US would “take over” war…
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit
This isn't ok. All the uncertainty. Kids ripped out of school, pets and belongings left behind. Offices shuttered and illegal terminations taking place against local laws. Not to mention the abrupt end to life-saving and vital services and all of the diplomatic harm
BREAKING NEWS: "We are being tasked to assist the department in recalling USAID employees to the United States by Saturday," State Department official Seth Green wrote in an email to staff on Tuesday.
Trump administration prepares to withdraw USAID staff from overseas posts by weekend
"We are being tasked to assist the department in recalling USAID employees to the United States by Saturday," State Department official Seth Green wrote in an email to staff on Tuesday.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This isn't ok. All the uncertainty. Kids ripped out of school, pets and belongings left behind. Offices shuttered and illegal terminations taking place against local laws. Not to mention the abrupt end to life-saving and vital services and all of the diplomatic harm
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THREAD: Heads up fellow feds #AltGov the Stalinist purge is getting worse at #USAID. Latest outrage: radical unelected bureaucrat Pete Marocco threatens to put USAID personnel on military planes and return them to US immediately #SaveUSAID abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
State Department moving to evacuate USAID staff worldwide: Sources
abcnews.go.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
THREAD: Heads up fellow feds #AltGov the Stalinist purge is getting worse at #USAID. Latest outrage: radical unelected bureaucrat Pete Marocco threatens to put USAID personnel on military planes and return them to US immediately #SaveUSAID abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
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At least one of Musk's "aides" has full Admin rights to the government systems they now have access to. That means they can make immediate, permanent changes to these systems. Let that sink in.
The system is responsible for trillions in government payments annually.
DOGE Aide Has Full Access To The Top Government Payment System: Reports
The system is responsible for trillions in government payments annually.
www.huffpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
At least one of Musk's "aides" has full Admin rights to the government systems they now have access to. That means they can make immediate, permanent changes to these systems. Let that sink in.
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Over a dozen members of Congress have now been DENIED ENTRY to Treasury.
HAPPENING NOW: members of Congress led by @maxwellfrost.bsky.social are attempting to enter the Treasury Building to demand answers re: Musk’s unconstitutional money grab
February 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Over a dozen members of Congress have now been DENIED ENTRY to Treasury.
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New and important: we built a federal expenditure tracker. All expenditure line items that are available on the Daily Treasury Statement.
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
February 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New and important: we built a federal expenditure tracker. All expenditure line items that are available on the Daily Treasury Statement.
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
USAID was zeroed out on 1/28 and has been at zero ever since.
www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
#EconSky
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The damage to America’s reputation from the Trump administration’s actions around USAID is so great that China and Russia do not have to do anything to benefit from this self-inflicted wound, writes George Ingram.
Why merging USAID into State would undermine U.S. strategic interests
George Ingram explains how efforts to merge USAID into the State Department threaten its independence and U.S. strategic interests.
www.brookings.edu
February 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The damage to America’s reputation from the Trump administration’s actions around USAID is so great that China and Russia do not have to do anything to benefit from this self-inflicted wound, writes George Ingram.
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