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Then you should refuse social security when you retire.

Something trickled down, but it wasn't money.

FACT SHEET: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, DOGE PUNISH AGENCIES INVESTIGATING ELON MUSK’S COMPANIES Several Federal Agencies That Were Investigating Elon Musk’s Companies Have Become The Early Targets Of The Trump Administration And Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) • Department of Labor (DOL): DOL, which oversees the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had over a dozen open investigations into Tesla and SpaceX regarding alleged unfair labor practices, safety violations, and discriminatory work practices. • NLRB filed a complaint against SpaceX after eight employees said they were fired in retaliation for speaking critically of Musk; SpaceX sued the NLRB in response. OFCCP was conducting an audit of potential workplace discrimination at Tesla. EEOC sued Tesla for alleged racial harassment and retaliation in 2023. • The DOL Inspector General was unlawfully fired by Trump during his midnight purge of inspectors general on Jan. 24. • Trump fired the chair of the NLRB and has effectively shut down NLRB’s ability to rule on cases. • Trump gutted OFCCP via an executive order on Jan. 21st before their investigation’s findings could be made public. • Trump fired two of the three Democratic Commissioners on the EEOC. • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): Consumers have submitted over 300 complaints about Elon Musk’s Tesla to the CFPB. 66 of these complaints were submitted in the last year. • Trump fired CFPB Director Rohit Chopra and installed Project 2025 architect Russ Vought as the bureau’s acting director. • CFPB’s Washington headquarters has been closed, and staff and contractors have been told that they cannot “perform any work tasks.” • Musk tweeted “Delete CFPB” less than a week after the agency finalized a rule that could put his planned collaboration with Visa to offer a real-time payments system on the platform into the agency’s crosshairs. • U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): The USAID Inspector General initiated a probe into Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine • USAID has been shuttered after Musk’s DOGE took a wrecking ball to the agency. • The USAID Inspector General was fired days after publishing a report critical of the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the agency. • Department of Transportation (DOT): DOT, which oversees the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), had several open investigations into Tesla. FAA had recently ordered SpaceX to carry out a formal investigation into the loss of a Starship vehicle during a test flight, and previously ordered over $630,000 in civil penalties against SpaceX. • The DOT Inspector General was fired by Trump. • The FAA Administrator resigned effective Jan. 20, following pressure from Musk. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): The USDA Inspector General launched a probe into Elon Musk’s Neuralink in 2022 for potential violations of the Animal Welfare Act. As of January, the investigation was ongoing. • The USDA Inspector General, a 22-year veteran of the agency, was fired by Trump and later escorted out of her office by security guards. • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): EPA regulators have settled multiple lawsuits with Tesla over violations of the Clean Air Act and hazardous waste laws at the company’s automotive manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. • The EPA Inspector General was fired by Trump. • Federal Election Commission (FEC): The FEC is set to rule on a number of complaints filed during the 2024 election cycle, including complaints pertaining to Musk’s America PAC. • The Trump Administration unlawfully removed FEC chairwoman Ellen Weintraub from her post. • Department of the Interior (DOI): DOI oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which monitors the federal lands near SpaceX’s launch site in Texas for any damage to threatened species’ habitats. Musk has repeatedly clashed with FWS, calling their review process “unacceptable.” • The DOI Inspector General was fired by Trump. • Department of Defense (DOD): Concerns that SpaceX has repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, including by not providing some details of Musk’s meetings with foreign leaders, have reportedly triggered federal reviews by DOD’s Office of Inspector General, the Air Force, and the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. The Air Force also recently denied Musk high-level security access, citing potential security risks associated with the billionaire. • The DOD Inspector General was fired by Donald Trump. • Department of Justice (DOJ): DOJ filed a lawsuit in 2023 against SpaceX for allegedly discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. DOJ also opened investigations into whether Tesla has been candid in describing the features of its vehicles. • While leaving its Inspector General in place, for now, the Trump Administration has taken several actions to gut the DOJ, including firing top leadership and prosecutors. • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): The SEC sued X in January 2025, alleging Musk misled shareholders about his Twitter stock purchases in 2022 and ordering Musk to pay the federal government as much as $150 million. Musk called the agency a “totally broken organization” in response to the lawsuit. • Trump vowed to fire the SEC Chair Gary Gensler “on day one”; Gensler stepped down before Trump could fire him, leaving a Republican majority at the SEC. • Office of Government Ethics (OGE): Days after Members of Congress requested that OGE investigate Mr. Musk’s conflicts of interest—given his status as a Special Government Employee and his extensive business holdings that receive billions of dollars in federal government contracts and subsidies—the Director of OGE was fired by Trump. https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.13_fact_sheet_re_musk_investigations.pdf

We're heading in that direction but he can't quite get away with that yet. Even some whacko wingers may view that as corrupt. He has to do it indirectly, as provided by the numerous examples that have been provided here.

It's very simple. Fewer regulations to comply with means he can take more shortcuts and hence bigger profits.

It's very simple. Fewer staff to enforce, investigate or even discover his rule violations.

The people being let go are not being let go because of poor performance. The vast majority are being let go because they are enforcing regulations that President Musk doesn't like. In reality, Musk PREFERS that they don't do their job.

Keep lobbing softballs....https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.13_fact_sheet_re_musk_investigations.pdf

So, are you saying that Musk is not under several investigations for violating federal regulations? Or at least WAS. I'm sure those aren't going anywhere right now.

I'll see it when I believe it. He won't touch social security, Medicare or DOD contracts.

Firing employees won't do much if anything about that. The money will still go out unless specifically directed otherwise (e.g. USAID, which is pretty minor). It just won't be scrutinized as much so there will actually be more fraud. Musk is laughing all the way to the bank and now has a free ticket to violate whatever rules he wants.

If you really want to shrink the budget by any significant amount, you MUST reduce social security, Medicare and/or military spending (and not just a few civilian workers at Pentagon; I'm talking about slashing military contractor budgets). Until I see that, DOGE is a joke with this alternative agenda that was fairly obvious from the start but becoming even more obvious to any moderate by the day.

If you really want to save money, change the law that would enable entire programs to be eliminated or reduced. Only 1% of the federal budget is employee compensation. The employees watch the purse strings and make sure the other 99% of the money is being spent in accordance with laws and not via corruption. Musk hates regulation because he's under dozens of federal investigations for rule/law violations and he has billions in federal govt contracts. He is going after the employees exclusively and not addressing any of the big expenditures. 2+2=4. It's VERY simple and obvious what this is about if you take off the red tinted goggles.

It's pretty simple. The Trump administration is running the FBI. If they're destroying files, Kash probably directed it or knows about it. That's called statistical probability. More likely than low-on-the-totem-pole workers (that likely never interacted with Epstein) risking their jobs to destroy files and the general public finding out before the FBI administration itself. So the big qualifier is "if this is even true in the first place."

Most popular podcast in the world, so plenty of whacko wingers using that as their main source of info, along with the most popular news station in the world, Fox. When you're #1 in the world for your type of information & news, you're "mainstream." Go ahead and spin it how you want though. That's all the wingers do anyway.

If true, then there must be something about Trump or his billionaire donors in there.

The problem is that this isn't about cutting waste. It's about making federal agencies unable to enforce regulations, and not going through congress. The actual cuts being made are jack squat.

Alex Jones doesn't have a big audience right now, I don't think.

If u think President Musk or diaper boy are even somewhat honest, then u aren't thinking for urself.

LMFAO. I'm bombarded w right wing propaganda daily. Especially talk radio and the internet. Most people get their news from the internet. Also, Fox is the #1 viewed news/propaganda outlet.

It's gotta hurt. You think President Mudk had his programmers install a left wing bias?

You have to realize that literally ANY factual information that flies in the face of the winger narrative will be dismissed as "fake news." You can't use logic and facts with these people.

What a dumb statement. Of course egg prices should fall. They're at all time highs, since diaper boy took office, by a huge amount. Very hard for them to continue that. Even staying somewhat close to the current levels would be a huge disappointment. Inflation hasn't slowed down at all yet and overall deficit spending is going even higher. FAIL!

They need to take more of the entertainment approach like fox.

Meanwhile, social security and medicaud payments and military spending (particularly on fat cat contractors like space x) growing by leaps and bounds and DOGE won't do anything about that. Nothing to see there, move along. We're cutting the super tiny stuff. Hoorrayy! Let's cut NPR next!