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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve seen zero justification for turning over decision-making and control of our government to an unelected private individual. You cannot replace Congress or our co-equal branches of government balances this way. If Congress doesn’t act, I expect a lot of this will be challenged in court (not the best because it’s costly and slow).

What actual legal authority is there for our government to operate this way? Seems to be exactly what the founders sought to avoid (centralized power at the hands of the wealthy few).

Imagine if Biden had installed someone like George Soros inside the US government to start controlling everything. It would be completely unacceptable (and I suspect we’d hear that from GOP members of Congress).[/quote]

To answer your question the Federal bureaucracy sits squarely under the Executive Branch. It belongs to that one of the three branches of the government, it does not sit under Congress or SCOTUS. Which is why, for example, agencies and bureaucrats routinely deny to answer questions in Congressional probes. It can be legitimately argued by constitutional scholars that some of the laws Congress passed affecting the bureaucracy are actually unlawful. The constitution makes clear the Executive branch runs the government, not Congress or SCOTUS.

That is most likely why there's this state of paralysis and no real confidence in lawsuits doing anything more than temporarily halt the EOs affecting the bureaucracy.

As for OP's question, I don't consider myself a Republican but I approve most of what I see Musk doing if just because all his actions is bringing far more transparency into an extremely opaque system of agencies and unelected senior bureaucrats. [/quote]

I find it hilarious that folks think Musk is being more transparent about government.  Particularly when government  undergoes multiple audits, files hundreds of reports, attends and host numerous conferences and presentations and use to have lots of meetings (viewable on C-SPAN) to inform on exactly what is going on.  Now things are just being destroyed and folks fired but people have no real idea WHY except because Elon said so or they are Trump enemies.

It’s like because some people didn’t pay attention they believe there was no transparency yet because Trump keeps talking (about nothing) people believe they now have some.😁[/quote]

Objectivity is useful. I've worked adjacent to the Feds for decades. We have seen and learned far more about various agencies' spending and actions in the last few days than we have in a decade or two. I know how difficult, cumbersome and tiresome it is to find out about spending histories. The FOIA is fighting the bureaucracy to get basic disclosures and quite often a lot of stuff is simply stonewalled off. Agencies are summoned to Congress to testify all the time and regularly say they can't say this or that because it's all protected by secrecy acts or whatever.

By contrast, Musk is posting endless screenshots of his discoveries every day and boasting about his actions. He is telling us way more about what he's doing and agencies are doing than the agencies themselves ever told us in my entire life. It's astonishing what is coming to light. And I suspect we will learn a lot more. But there will be people who will forever bury their heads in the sand because government and bureaucrats can do no wrong. Ever. We understand that's how you think. So I'm not paying much attention to angry people right now. Because the revelations aren't going to stop and I would also advise people to be a bit cautious before being overly defensive. We're going to see and learn a lot more. [/quote]

Oh Lord have mercy. You know WHY govnt agencies don't "tell you about what they do??" It's because they don't have an ad budget or personnel. You all really cannot actually be this dumb but I think you really are. And I've posted this once already and I'll post again, it's all out there. It is literally all public. Most agencies have PUBLIC webpages to review where funds go. In fact I guarantee you that Musk just freaking screenshoted those for his "big reveal" on Shitter/X![/quote]

You are replying to a rabid liar. They fabricate claims, without even bothering to fabricate evidence (except when they make their xitty AI generated photos and videos.)[/quote]

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