Jeff Houston
@soaproot.bsky.social
Household incomes below the 4th decile (<= $76,475) will be negatively affected. The top decile will be positively affected by 2.3%. A blatant transfer of income from the poor to the rich.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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How H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Would Affect the Distribution of Resources Available to Households | Congressional Budget Office
CBO's interactive tool allows users to explore how H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as passed by the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025, would affect the economic resources available to h...
www.cbo.gov
June 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Household incomes below the 4th decile (<= $76,475) will be negatively affected. The top decile will be positively affected by 2.3%. A blatant transfer of income from the poor to the rich.
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Robert Reich, wrote that the provision "makes Trump King." No congress and no court could stop him. Even if a future Congress were to try to stop him, it could not do so without the power of the courts to enforce their hearings, investigations, subpoenas, and laws.
www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...
www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...
'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court
The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.
www.newsweek.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Robert Reich, wrote that the provision "makes Trump King." No congress and no court could stop him. Even if a future Congress were to try to stop him, it could not do so without the power of the courts to enforce their hearings, investigations, subpoenas, and laws.
www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...
www.newsweek.com/hidden-provi...
"The Global High Wealth unit, which investigates the taxes of the very richest people, was until recently slated for major expansion. It has instead lost 38 percent of its staff. The staffing reductions have interrupted ongoing audits on high earners."
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
What’s Going on at the IRS?
Breaking down the reduction in tax workforce, DOGE’s attempts to access sensitive data, and the politicization and erosion of agency independence at the IRS
www.lawfaremedia.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"The Global High Wealth unit, which investigates the taxes of the very richest people, was until recently slated for major expansion. It has instead lost 38 percent of its staff. The staffing reductions have interrupted ongoing audits on high earners."
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
"JD Vance Follows Curtis Yarvin
JD has long been a follower of Yarvin, the San Francisco programmer whose anti-democracy, pro-dictatorship blog posts have become sacred scripture in Silicon Valley. On Friday, JD made it official by following Yarvin on Twitter."
www.thenerdreich.com/elon-musk-jd...
JD has long been a follower of Yarvin, the San Francisco programmer whose anti-democracy, pro-dictatorship blog posts have become sacred scripture in Silicon Valley. On Friday, JD made it official by following Yarvin on Twitter."
www.thenerdreich.com/elon-musk-jd...
Elon Musk, JD Vance, and the Onward March of Tech Fascism
No, Elon Musk isn't leaving government. Yes, JD Vance is a Curtis Yarvin follower
www.thenerdreich.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"JD Vance Follows Curtis Yarvin
JD has long been a follower of Yarvin, the San Francisco programmer whose anti-democracy, pro-dictatorship blog posts have become sacred scripture in Silicon Valley. On Friday, JD made it official by following Yarvin on Twitter."
www.thenerdreich.com/elon-musk-jd...
JD has long been a follower of Yarvin, the San Francisco programmer whose anti-democracy, pro-dictatorship blog posts have become sacred scripture in Silicon Valley. On Friday, JD made it official by following Yarvin on Twitter."
www.thenerdreich.com/elon-musk-jd...
Reposted by Jeff Houston
DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
March 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
"...[T]his is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.” ...“These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.”
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March 24, 2025
Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped the story that senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15 U.S.
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March 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"...[T]his is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.” ...“These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
DOGE never identified even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data
In a scathing ruling on Thursday, a federal judge wrote that DOGE “essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.”
www.washingtonpost.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
DOGE never identified even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"...a 25-year-old former X engineer named Marko Elez was granted the ability not only to read the code in the Treasury systems but also to write—or change—it."
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
www.wired.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"...a 25-year-old former X engineer named Marko Elez was granted the ability not only to read the code in the Treasury systems but also to write—or change—it."
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
March 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"He confirmed that the DOGE team members had broad access to Americans’ Social Security numbers and other personal data, but he claimed that if they were to do anything illegal with that information, he’d have them investigated and potentially prosecuted."
www.propublica.org/article/reco...
www.propublica.org/article/reco...
“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump
In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”
www.propublica.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"He confirmed that the DOGE team members had broad access to Americans’ Social Security numbers and other personal data, but he claimed that if they were to do anything illegal with that information, he’d have them investigated and potentially prosecuted."
www.propublica.org/article/reco...
www.propublica.org/article/reco...
"USDS was often slowed down by... ...rules and restrictions that are key to protecting sensitive data. DOGE has been able to move faster, but only because it wields more political capital and ignores many of those safeguards."
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-hu...
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-hu...
Turmoil within DOGE spills into public view as Musk’s group confronts a PR crisis
Facing weeks of negative headlines and growing pressure from within the Trump administration, the U.S. DOGE Service is racing to finish the first phase of its assignment - slashing the federal bureauc...
www.yahoo.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"USDS was often slowed down by... ...rules and restrictions that are key to protecting sensitive data. DOGE has been able to move faster, but only because it wields more political capital and ignores many of those safeguards."
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-hu...
www.yahoo.com/news/doge-hu...
"Cooper also offered some criticism of the way the Trump administration litigated the case, noting that its lawyers offered virtually nothing in the way of evidence about DOGE’s operations or management."
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’
It’s the first significant ruling in a growing legal push to pierce DOGE’s secretive veil, a decision that undercuts Musk’s repeated insistence about the operation’s transparency.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Cooper also offered some criticism of the way the Trump administration litigated the case, noting that its lawyers offered virtually nothing in the way of evidence about DOGE’s operations or management."
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
