Posted on 02/04/2025 1:32:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Chuck and Hakeem in their presser today said they’re totally willing to cut spending and waste. Just not with Trump and Musk involved.
Great. Let’s start today.
“...riling Democrats who say the billionaire has no such authority.”
The authority granted through the authority of the President.
The LA Times didn’t seem to be curious about unelected bureaucrats of the Biden years... like the ones who came up with the record 8000 pardons for Biden to “sign.”
And it turns out there's a lot of these programs.
It's pretty cool.
And the people who got paid by these programs (mostly liberals) are really mad.
So where were the Freedom Caucus and TEA Party folks all of these years? Well, they were fighting amongst a legislative body of 535 politicians which is a lot more challenging than sending Musk in to just zap these programs with a mouse click one after the next.
"You can't do that!" the left howls. Turns out, you actually can just do that. And they're doing it!
Bbbaaaaawwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhhh...
Catching my breath....bbbbaaaaawwwaaaahhhh
So the president is not allowed to hire Auditors for his executive departments?-)
LOL! A shadow government is what we had from 2021 through to Jan 20, 2025. And, we actually had a shadow government during Trump’s first term. It was funded through USAID and worked to undermine all his policies in addition to the fraudulent impeachment.
The Trump administration and Elon Musk, who he appointed as head of DOGE, are actually very open and upfront about what they are doing.
But, the left has their talking points so they are going with them.
I want to know how much money leftist news organizations have received via USAID funding. Is that how these news sites have kept afloat for the past few years?
Shadow Government?
Yeah, we just had four years of a brain dead president so we did have a shadow government. No more.
According to Nick Arama at Redstate, Trump renamed the U.S. Digital services, a unit created by Obama, and it is now called the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). So the left can just cry in the beer (or wine boxes). Although the left thinks differently, there is no “Trump exception” to creating or renaming units under the Executive branch of government.
From the article:
“What Unhinged Jamie Raskin Just Said About the Trump Team and a ‘Coup’ Is Next Level Nuts”
“But there’s nothing “illegal” about it. Trump renamed an existing unit — the U.S. Digital Service that had been established by Barack Obama and was part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) — DOGE, and that’s what Elon is operating under, as a “special government employee.” Raskin is falsely suggesting that the president doesn’t have a right to review agencies within his own executive branch, claiming Musk was the “fourth branch of government.” “
Not really, its kinda like with all the government czars. They have no actual constitution authority, they are subject matter experts the president appointed to advise him and the agencies on critical issues.
In actuality Holmen has no authority on border issues, the Director of Customs and Border Protection has the authority to make actual decisions.
Same with the Drug Czar, the director of DEA is in charge of the agency the czar can only make recommendations.
The CBP Director answers to the DHS Secretly and the DEA director answers to the AG. There are no czars or consultants in the chain of command.
All the people on Musk's team had to be hired and approved by constitutionally recognized agency. He can't do it.
The reason it's set up this way is so one person is in charge of a program/agency and therefor accountable for the agencies performance. Something I hope will come back into fashion.
Elon Musk is bringing the government OUT of the shadows.
Raskin's real problem is that his friends have just had their rice bowl taken away. I suspect that even if Trump cannot stop all of the payment streams going out of so many agencies, he can redirect them to places other than Raskin's buddies. I strongly suspect that most of those funds when you get to the original appropriation say something along the lines of "to be disbursed for X purpose by the (Agency Head) or their designee."
The Muskovites are inside the gate!
“Disregarding established security protocols while downplaying the budgetary authority of Congress, they accessed sensitive Treasury Department systems full of Americans’ most personal data”
Did the LA Times have a problem with Biden’s Brownshirts rifling through Melania’s underwear?
“Who in the LA Times works for US intelligence agencies.”
Don’t you ever wonder how news outfits can see their revenues decline 80 to 90% (due to the Internet opening up many more options) and still stay in business...every damn one of them. I think that’s your answer.
THIS IS THE LA TIMES.
THEY JUST HAD A ‘LARGE BURN DOWN THERE”.
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