DOGE did not fail. It was tearing the hell out of things. But then Patel, Bessent, Blondi, Wiles, etc turned on it with a vengeance. They got Trump’s ear and Bessent even had a gay rage incident and punched Elon to keep him out of the treasury dept.
Johnson and Congress utterly refused to cover his efforts with legislation and to codify what he found.
The DC swamp swarmed like white blood cells to an infection in self defense... and Elon was kicked to the curb. The administration moved DOGE into the Cyber security office to kill it and pretend it’s still a thing. But it’s a nothing but a skin suit.
DOGE was fine; DC, Trump and the Repub leadership failed.
The bet was on DOGE failing to achieve its objectives, not that Musk would fail personally.
Thank you for describing how it failed.
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The intrigue: The latest trouble between Musk and Bessent began brewing on April 16, when Trump named Gary Shapley — Musk’s choice — as acting commissioner of the IRS. Bessent wanted Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender in the position.
Bessent lobbied Trump to install Faulkender and fumed that Musk was causing trouble by going behind his back. On Thursday, at a meeting in the White House, Bessent confronted Musk and, a source said, “the F bombs started to fly.”
Bessent criticized Musk for overpromising and under-delivering budget cuts with DOGE. Musk clapped back by calling Bessent a “Soros agent” and accusing him of having run “a failed hedge fund.” (Trump has praised Bessent’s financial acumen.)
The argument was so heated that an aide stepped in between the two men to separate them. It took place within earshot of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who was visiting Trump that day.
Two sources who overheard the argument recalled that at one point Bessent yelled,” F**k you,” and Musk replied, “Say it louder.”
That night, Trump loyalist Laura Loomer got in on the action and began torching Bessent on X for allowing an unrelated “Trump hater” into Treasury for a financial literacy event.
“Troubling,” Musk said in a quote-post reply at 11:02 p.m.
But on Friday, Bessent had the last word when the Times reported that Shapley was out and Faulkender was in.
What’s next: There’s little appetite by Musk or Bessent for a rapprochement, and White House insiders wonder who’ll fire the next shot.
“Scott won that round,” one source said. “But I would not want a guy like Musk as an enemy.”
You have no idea what’s going on.
“But then Patel, Bessent, Blondi, Wiles, etc turned on it with a vengeance”
Not that I am disagreeing or doubting you, but why the hell would they do that?
One truly good thing did come out of it all: after decades of near total secrecy, Medicare spending is now being made fully public, which will make it a LOT easier for sleuths out there to sniff out the tens (if not hundreds) of billions of dollars of fraud taking place each year.
But then Patel, Bessent, Blondi, Wiles, etc turned on it with a vengeance.
Please provide some direct quotes from the parties you mentioned to support your contention.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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