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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by jart on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:53PM (#42928148)
The thing that makes revolutions fail or succeed is whether or not they take control of the money. Trump isn't doing that. He appears to just be auditing for fraud and corruption. If he was trying to control the money, then he'd need to march doge into the federal reserve. But he can't because it's not organized under the executive branch. They claim they're not even part of the government.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by UltraSane on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:23AM (#42928374)
" He appears to just be auditing for fraud and corruption."

The constitution gives Congress sole authority to control spending and any payments Musk stops is a extreme violation of the Constitution. I really hope this ends with Musk either in prison for life or with his US citizenship revoked and him deported back to South Africa.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by jart on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:44AM (#42928900)
The way it seems to work is the President makes a budget request and then congress approves it. You can read about it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250106031150/https://www.usaid...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250106124223/https://www.white...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250109103910/https://www.white...

So on page 137 it looks like Biden got congress to approve the executive branch having $86 trillion to spend over the next 10 years.

Trump and Elon want that money. Let them have it. I'd rather see it go towards taking us to Mars rather than whatever Biden was doing.

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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by UltraSane on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:14AM (#42929129)
If Musk stops any payment that Congress has approved he is breaking the law. and the US Constitution. Considering he is an immigrant he could have his citizenship revoked and be deported.

You still believe the lies that con artist Musk tells you? He isn't ever going to Mars. Tesla is never going to have FSD so good they are willing to take legal liability for accidents the way Waymo does.

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