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Elon Musk: Many Bureaucrats, Like Samantha Power, Are Getting Wealthy At Taxpayers Expense
RealClear Politics ^ | 11 Feb, 2025 | Tim Hains

Posted on 02/12/2025 5:59:16 AM PST by MtnClimber

Elon Musk said there would be investigations into how members of the federal bureaucracy have become rich on relatively modest salaries, during an Oval Office event with President Trump on Tuesday:

DONALD TRUMP: And also, could you mention some of the things that your team has found? Some of the crazy numbers, including the woman who walked away with about $30 million?

ELON MUSK: Well, we do find it sort of rather odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position, which is, you know, what happened at USAID.

We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps. But mysteriously, they get wealthy. We don't know why. Where does it come from?

And I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at taxpayer expense. That's the honest truth of it.

So, you know, we're looking at, say—well, if you look at, say, Treasury, for example—basic controls that should be in place, that are in place in any company, such as making sure that any given payment has a payment categorization code, that there is a comment field that describes the payment, and that if a payment is on the "Do Not Pay" list, that you don't actually pay it. None of those things are true currently.

So the reason that departments can't pass audits is because the payments don't have a categorization code. It's like just a massive number of blank checks just flying out the building. So you can't reconcile blank checks.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: corruption; elonmusk; samanthapower; timhains; usaid
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1 posted on 02/12/2025 5:59:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like a lot of big time corruption was being ignored.


2 posted on 02/12/2025 5:59:27 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Say It Ain’t So, Joe


3 posted on 02/12/2025 6:00:46 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


4 posted on 02/12/2025 6:01:14 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

I hope he has really good security.


5 posted on 02/12/2025 6:03:37 AM PST by OKSooner (Communists gonna communist.)
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To: MtnClimber

We’re just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they’re very good at investing, in which case we should take their investment advice, perhaps. But mysteriously, they get wealthy. We don’t know why. Where does it come from?


Love this line, from yesterday’s presser.

I don’t see where he specifically mentions Samantha Power, though.

Maybe that should’ve been in ( ) ?


6 posted on 02/12/2025 6:03:48 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Jane Long

He said USAID! She was in charge of it!


7 posted on 02/12/2025 6:06:50 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I know.

I’m referring to the headline vs article.

Thx, tho.


8 posted on 02/12/2025 6:07:39 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: MtnClimber

Also need to look at Fed judges and prosecutors.


9 posted on 02/12/2025 6:09:39 AM PST by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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To: MtnClimber

This has been going on for many years....Not many people even looked at it or thought about it for many years...


10 posted on 02/12/2025 6:10:07 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: MtnClimber

Is the 1-800-DOGETIP line up yet? Let’s all get involved.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 6:12:28 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: OKSooner

I was nervous with both he and President Trump being interviewed in front of windows.


12 posted on 02/12/2025 6:14:16 AM PST by yldstrk (Nothing like the1 truth)
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To: MtnClimber

Why are blank checks leaving the treasury and whose names are on them?


13 posted on 02/12/2025 6:15:30 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: MtnClimber

Embezzlement


14 posted on 02/12/2025 6:16:16 AM PST by butlerweave
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Musk: “Treasury, for example, should have basic controls in place, as in any company:”
<><>making sure a payment has a payment categorization code,
<><>that there is a “comment field” that describes the payment,
<><>and if a payment is on a “Do Not Pay” list, that you don’t actually pay it.
<><>None of those things exist at the Biden Treasury currently.

Biden’s departments can’t pass audits
<><>b/c payments don’t have a categorization code.
<><>just a massive number of blank checks flying out the building........
<><>you can’t reconcile blank checks.


15 posted on 02/12/2025 6:17:29 AM PST by Liz
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Official Treasury portrait of Biden hire.

Biden hired Nigerian Wally-Adeyemo to oversee payments of $6 trillion tax dollars.

16 posted on 02/12/2025 6:21:08 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

The Prince!


17 posted on 02/12/2025 6:23:58 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Liz

If that isn’t a sh!t-eating grin of a lifelong grifter...I don’t know what is.


18 posted on 02/12/2025 6:24:47 AM PST by suasponte137
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To: MtnClimber

...until yesterday.

I can’t state loudly enough how much this topic pleases me.


19 posted on 02/12/2025 6:27:25 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: yldstrk
I was nervous with both he and President Trump being interviewed in front of windows.

Those windows in the Oval Office could take a round from a 50 caliber and and not blink.

There is always the danger of missals, but hopefully our protection system will protect the President from that kind of attack.

20 posted on 02/12/2025 6:31:07 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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