DOGE access--Please explain to me like I'm five...

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Anonymous wrote:Biden hied 87000 new irs agents to do audits no one complained. You people are nuts

Right, we don't complain when the President follows the law. We complain when the President breaks the law.
Can you follow?

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I thought it was because they fired all the IGs and other people who tried to stop them.

[Anonymous]

Yes, employees are scared of losing their jobs.
So they don’t ask questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be clear, DOGE is a real part of the government.

Obama created the US Digital Service as a sort of internal consultant to improve tech use and efficiency in the executive branch. One of Trump’s first executive orders was to rebrand the US Digital Service as DOGE and expands its mission scope.

Thus, that’s why they are being let in.

That's illegal. Mission scope is determined by Congress, not the Executive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DOGE works for The President of the United States of America, you know, the person who WON the last election.

Why aren’t you finding anyone who can win NEXT time?

So, aren’t there laws that apply to everyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be clear, DOGE is a real part of the government.

Obama created the US Digital Service as a sort of internal consultant to improve tech use and efficiency in the executive branch. One of Trump’s first executive orders was to rebrand the US Digital Service as DOGE and expands its mission scope.

Thus, that’s why they are being let in.

Congress is who is allowed to change scope, not the President.

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Anonymous wrote:What does hating Jews have to do with an IRS audit? Did you mean to post this in religion?

Who is doing an audit? Do you know what an audit is?

I see no forensic accountants among this group of hooligans.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does hating Jews have to do with an IRS audit? Did you mean to post this in religion?

Who is doing an audit? Do you know what an audit is?

I see no forensic accountants among this group of hooligans.

Their "audit" would never stand up in court and is full of wrong info. https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2025/02/07/the-white-houses-wildly-inaccurate-claims-about-usaid-spending/amp/

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Anonymous wrote:What does hating Jews have to do with an IRS audit? Did you mean to post this in religion?

Who is doing an audit? Do you know what an audit is?

Is the person doing the audit an actual trained auditor with a degree in finance or accounting? A CPA? Or Musk just thinks the dude is good at math?

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Anonymous wrote:I can understand the first agency they visited not knowing better and allowing DOGE inside.

But, why would the IRS let the racist Jewish-hating programmer inside and give them access to the tax info for everyone in the United States of America? Especially after seeing how they gutted other agencies?

Please tell me why everyone has to let DOGE into their offices when they are not real government workers and are unqualified....?

They are government workers, and based on results, they are very qualified.
$106 billion saved so far.

there hasn't been a penny saved so far...where on earth did you get that nonsense?

And in fact, when you understand the multiplier of federal dollars for research (NIH research cuts) and you consider the time lost when people are sick because of cuts in the CDC, the US GDP will be falling because of these actions.

US Debt Clock

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can understand the first agency they visited not knowing better and allowing DOGE inside.

But, why would the IRS let the racist Jewish-hating programmer inside and give them access to the tax info for everyone in the United States of America? Especially after seeing how they gutted other agencies?

Please tell me why everyone has to let DOGE into their offices when they are not real government workers and are unqualified....?

They are government workers, and based on results, they are very qualified.
$106 billion saved so far.

Where is the saved money now?

Hm, by the end of the year they can probably quit collecting income taxes and just settle for tariffs.

PP, we can save the entire budget by just, you know, not having a government at all. Who cares if there's no FAA?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does hating Jews have to do with an IRS audit? Did you mean to post this in religion?

Who is doing an audit? Do you know what an audit is?

I see no forensic accountants among this group of hooligans.

Their "audit" would never stand up in court and is full of wrong info. https://www.theoaklandpress.com/2025/02/07/the-white-houses-wildly-inaccurate-claims-about-usaid-spending/amp/

Thanks!

So, the US is not paying its fair share--kinda like how Trump accuses NATO countries of not paying theirs.

On top of that, other countries are more generous with foreign aid. By raw dollars, the United States gives more foreign aid than any other country. But when measured as a percentage of a country’s economy, the United States is far behind nations such as Britain, Norway, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. The United Nations has set a target of contributing 0.7 percent of gross national income in development aid; the United States clocks in with less than 0.2 percent, near the bottom of the list of major democracies, according to a 2020 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A simpler explanation: those who actually control access to IRS systems value their jobs more than standing up for principle. Knowing you can be fired or Riffed if you displease the masters, they roll over. Not saying I wouldn’t do the same thing - it’s a hard choice.

Right, and it would happen anyway. I imagine the scenario is something like, resign and retain access to any retirement benefits, or be fired for cause (insubordination) and lose all of that, and it doesn’t change the outcome.

[Anonymous]

Court filing: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it.

He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say.

So this is a "dodgey" way of trying to get out of any responsibility for what is taking place.

[Anonymous]

So if Musk doesn’t run DOGE, and DOGE isn’t a real government agency, then no one has to listen to Musk or do what the DOGE bros tell them to do, right?