Members of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly gained access to a payroll system over the weekend that processes salaries for about 276,000 federal employees across various government agencies, despite warnings from senior staff about the potential risks.
According to two people familiar with the situation who spoke with the New York Times, Doge employees had spent about two weeks trying to obtain administrative access to the program, known as the Federal Personnel and Payroll System.
Then, toward the end of last week, senior career officials at the interior department reportedly issued a memo highlighting the unusual nature of the request and the associated risks with granting it.
i wonder where President Musk will retire to once he’s done looting this country
A private island full of memories and skeletons.
And likely a buried chest with a big X marked on the ground above it.
Hopefully 6ft under when someone finally gets to him.
Can we pave a WinCo parking lot over top? I think it’d be fitting for his unmarked grave.
Dollar Store might be better, but I’ll take what I can get.
Europe to loot the countries there too.
On Friday, the federal employees reportedly asked the Doge workers to deliver the memo to Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, for his signature, thereby assuming the legal responsibility for the associated risks.
However, Burgum reportedly never signed the memo. […]
Meanwhile, Tyler Hassan, the recently named interior department’s acting assistant secretary of policy, management and budget and a former Doge employee, reportedly placed two of the IT officials who had resisted the Doge employees on administrative leave and under investigation for their “workplace behavior”, according to the two sources.
Thank you to the IT workers that refused to cooperate with this order and pushed back repeatedly.
Those it workers are heroes and Tyler Hassan is a traitor to the American people.
If anyone really wanted to find government waste, fraud, and abuse, they’d be looking at state and local governments. Federal employees are usually underpaid, if anything, and could make more in the private sector.
The highest paid government employees in basically every state are college sports coaches — who are typically actually paid by foundations funded by insane fans — and 4 cops who somehow clocked more overtime hours than is physically possible without a gravity well and a deep understanding of general relativity.
