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‘Second American Revolution’: The team behind DOGE’s government overhaul
CNN ^ | 2/7/25 | Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Curt Devine, Majlie de Puy Kamp and Rene Marsh, CNN

Posted on 02/08/2025 9:06:13 AM PST by DallasBiff

One is a 23-year-old software engineer from Nebraska who helped decipher an ancient scroll buried for centuries. Another was the runner-up in a “hackathon” contest last year as a Harvard senior. A third is the CEO of a multibillion-dollar start-up.

These are among the operatives linked to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) whose work to slash public spending and reshape the federal bureaucracy have sent shockwaves through government agencies.

For the past couple of weeks, DOGE staffers have appeared without warning throughout the nation’s bureaucracy, seeking access to sensitive files, databases and computer systems. Their movements inside offices from Washington, DC, to Kansas City have been detailed by a frightened federal workforce and chronicled by media outlets seeking answers about their specific activities and intentions.

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


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doge; musk
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I know CNN, but oh my, the federal workers are frightened, by DOGE.
1 posted on 02/08/2025 9:06:13 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

“by a frightened federal workforce”

About time they were frightened of us instead of the other way around.

Now do the IRS, Big Balls.


2 posted on 02/08/2025 9:08:39 AM PST by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: DallasBiff

Here’s all they need to know: Those people were sent by the President of the United States, who is your boss.


3 posted on 02/08/2025 9:13:15 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: DallasBiff

Congress needs to take the magic wands away from the Feral fag judges and prevent them from waiving fairy dust over their decisions. They should be required to present a paper explaining why they made their liberal decisions and list their sources used to make their dumbass decision for their RAT massas. NO UNELECTED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO JUST WAVE A WAND WITH PIXIE DUST OVER THE AMERICAN VOTERS DECISIONS THEY MADE DURING THE ELECTION. America has way too many stooges in black robes and they are all owned by the RATS and their dictator, Georgey Soros. (Soros is Soros spelled backwards. How Satanic.)


4 posted on 02/08/2025 9:14:22 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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To: DallasBiff

“Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) whose work to slash public spending”

This sentence invalidates the entire article and, again, exposes CNN as hacks and not journalists. They know the mission isn’t to “slash public spending,” but to root out waste, fraud and corruption. The “slash government spending” is simply a logical response to what DOGE has uncovered.

CNN has absolutely no interest in investigating the allegations exposed by DOGE and instead focuses on “investigating” and demeaning the investigators.

Seems different from when the reported on the J6 commission’s work . . .


5 posted on 02/08/2025 9:16:15 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: DallasBiff
.... frightened federal workforce con-artists, grifters and criminals...
6 posted on 02/08/2025 9:16:20 AM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: DallasBiff

7 posted on 02/08/2025 9:18:08 AM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )
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To: DallasBiff

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8 posted on 02/08/2025 9:19:05 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: DallasBiff

Remember what Hillary Clintoon said, “If Trump gets elected, we’re all going to hang.” Joe Pedo took that warning to heart and pardoned is family, friends, neighbors, and political
associates. Hillary should have spoken to Joe Pedo and got herself one of Joe’s End of Term Pardon Specials.


9 posted on 02/08/2025 9:23:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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To: DallasBiff

“...by a frightened federal workforce...”


The question CNN should be asking is why would the workforce be frightened?


10 posted on 02/08/2025 9:23:54 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Hillary Clintoon said, ‘If Trump gets elected, we’re all going to hang.’”

Oh right. It makes even more sense now than it used to. And maybe she ain’t wrong.


11 posted on 02/08/2025 9:25:01 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: MayflowerMadam

She nailed it. That explains so many Joe Pedo pardon specials.


12 posted on 02/08/2025 9:27:52 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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To: DallasBiff

If cnn (commie snewz nutcases) was any kind of a real news provider IT WOULDN’T HAVE TO HAVE 4-(YES FOUR) flunkies to get 1 (ONE) story.


13 posted on 02/08/2025 9:30:21 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: DallasBiff

Elon Musk seems to know how to pick good people.


14 posted on 02/08/2025 9:35:20 AM PST by Saintgermain ( )
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To: DallasBiff

Office Space 1999:

Bob Slydell: You see, what we’re trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah.

Bob Slydell: Great.

Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. Ah, I use the side door–that way Lumbergh can’t see me, heh. After that I sorta space out for an hour.

Bob Porter: Da-uh? “Space out”?

Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
Peter Gibbons: You see, Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.

Bob Porter: [confused] Don’t–don’t care?

Peter Gibbons: It’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation? And here’s another thing: I have eight different bosses right now.

Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?

Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses, Bob.

Bob Slydell: Eight?

Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That’s my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Bob Slydell: Would you bear with me for just a second here?

Peter Gibbons: Okay.

Bob Slydell: What if–and believe me this is “hypothetical”–but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program? Would that do anything for you?

Peter Gibbons: I don’t know, I guess. Listen, I’m gonna go. It’s been really nice talking to both you guys.

Bob Slydell: Absolutely, the pleasure’s all on this side of the table, trust me.

(The following would be my emphasis on DOGE)

Peter Gibbons: GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR LAYOFFS, ALL RIGHT? I HOPE YOUR FIRINGS GO REALLY, REALLY WELL.

Bob Porter: Excellent.

Bob Slydell: Great. Wow.


15 posted on 02/08/2025 9:40:14 AM PST by Eastern Shore Virginian (Yea, I sometimes gild the lily.)
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To: DallasBiff

I honestly believe DOGE taking over USAID was like the patriots and the Boston Tea Party.

Each status quo was in utter shock.


16 posted on 02/08/2025 9:46:26 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: DallasBiff
All these articles about rooting out the nonsense in government - I think this is like an alternate ending to Atlas Shrugged.

Instead of the economy collapsing and Galt forming his little clique in the Gultch, he gets pissed off and runs for office. Then, he empowers a bunch of other pissed off folks and they go after the looter class.

17 posted on 02/08/2025 9:59:02 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The house has control over the courts per that pesky constitution thingie...The judiciary committee should be impeaching and removing rogue judges... to date they have impeached and removed....ZERO...

Hey Hey...
J.J....
How many judges did you impeach today???


18 posted on 02/08/2025 10:18:20 AM PST by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: Biblebelter

I honestly believe DOGE taking over USAID was like the patriots and the Boston Tea Party.
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19 posted on 02/08/2025 10:28:44 AM PST by iontheball
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To: DallasBiff

Some of the federal agencies have got the message that Resistance to DOGE is futile and they will be assimilated or they will be destroyed.

It is nice to see agencies starting to cooperate.

“.... Over at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency said in a statement Wednesday that two senior agency officials are leading the “collaboration” with DOGE “including ensuring appropriate access to CMS systems and technology.”

In response to the initial reporting on the development at CMS by the Wall Street Journal, Musk posted on X, “this is where the big money fraud is happening.”

Some agencies are preparing for their turn to work with DOGE....Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy eagerly announced the incoming DOGE partnership. ....”


20 posted on 02/08/2025 10:44:41 AM PST by Robert357
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