He has no knowledge of or use for the rules and regulations governing public funds. good thing there isn't an IG to tell him he can't do that. attorneys are going to make so much money from this admin. can you invest in law firms? Elon Musk’s Doge accused of ‘illegal’ job posting by federal workers’ union Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has been accused by a leading labor union of an “absolutely illegal” breach of federal regulations after posting a vague request for job applications. The Trump administration’s much-vaunted but ill-defined program to reshape the federal government announced it is recruiting “full-time, salaried positions” for software engineers, information security engineers and “other technology professionals” on its official website. The page was promoted by Musk on X, the social network he owns, and swiftly drew criticism from a prominent union leader. “This is an application to apply for a corrupt organization to do corrupt things,” said Steve Lenkart, executive director of the National Federation of Federal Employees, which represents around 110,000 federal workers. “This is definitely against federal law if they’re using it as a way to actually give someone a job or deny someone a job. It’s absolutely illegal.” Government vacancy announcements are typically required to include key information around pay, security requirements, qualifications, and the number of available roles, according to the Office of Personnel Management. The Doge page does not contain such details. It includes a brief paragraph explaining that it is looking to hire “world-class talent to work long hours identifying/eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse”, and a form to submit personal details. A checkbox indicates the roles are based in Washington DC, and available only to US citizens.
These are people that have no problem with a sitting president trying not to transfer power. Who literally cast ballots for a criminal to be POTUS. There is probably literally no law they wouldn't allow to be broken. It will be interesting to see how much, over the next 4 years, that presumption is proven out.
Hahaha … I remember when DOGE was going to be run Musk and Ramswamy, working for free, have no employees, and cost the tax payers nothing…. Another grift…
A wrecking ball is being taken to our Federal workforce. It's not just IG's or agency / department heads. Recently hired people ARE being dismissed across all agencies, new hire placements HAVE been rescinded, and there's a lack of clarity coming out of Washington in many departments. Now some of you think this is just fine. But do you really want your trained food inspectors at USDA, or industrial safety board analysts, for example, replaced by tech nerds or untrained recruits of DOGE?
"I think that as long as these people rilly rilly luv Donald Trump, then that's the most important thing." - MAGA
Incoming “haha I love to see you libbies pissed” posts from the usual suspects, because that’s all that matters to that contingent.
Well, they’ll care when something bad happens. Then they’ll look to the most convenient conspiracy theory to blame a Democrat.
They will care only when unemployment ratchets up, gov't services start drying up, and recession kicks in. Especially in the poorer (red) states. But the little news they do see will lay the blame on .... spinning dial .... anyone but the current administration
USACOE is a mess as many of the recent hires put on to take over the wetland permitting in Florida after a recent judges ruling that took it back from FDEP. I found out today that a reviewer that had been released had withdrawn all the permit applciations that ahd been assigned to him on the way out the door. Now they are scrambling to try and rebuild the file in the system and hopefully find someone, somewhere, to finish the review. why does this matter in the real world..homes, roads, hospitals, schools, etc don't get built without permits. it is mucking up the supply chain that provides all the developed land for those new homes to go up. Less supply, same demand,,,you tell me what happens
there’s that silver lining! But no, you can’t - if you’re a lawyer you can become an equity partner in a law firm but non-lawyers cannot have an ownership interest. (And a lot of lawyers made a lot of money from the last Trump admin - a big chunk of it from the taxpayers)
more - putting people into senior positions with none of the formalities required - who needs rules or laws, we're DOGE - National Emergency - take that, can do anything now, no rules...national emergency... Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management | WIRED Centibillionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of the former US Digital Service—now the United States DOGE Service—has been widely publicized and sanctioned by one of President Donald Trump’s many executive orders. But WIRED reporting shows that Musk’s influence extends even further, and into an even more consequential government agency.Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government—are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall. Amanda Scales is, as has been reported, the new chief of staff at the OPM. She formerly worked in talent for xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence company, according to her LinkedIn. Before that, she was part of the talent and operations team at Human Capital, a venture firm with investments in the defense tech startup Anduril and the political betting platform Kalshi; before that, she worked for years at Uber. Her placement in this key role, experts believe, seems part of a broader pattern of the traditionally apolitical OPM being converted to use as a political tool. Sources say that Riccardo Biasini, formerly an engineer at Tesla and most recently director of operations for the Las Vegas Loop at the Boring Company, Musk’s tunnel-building operation, is also at the OPM as a senior adviser to the director. (Steve Davis, the CEO of the Boring Company, is rumored to be advising Musk on cuts to be made via DOGE and was integral in Musk’s gutting of Twitter, now X, after his takeover of the company in 2022.) According to the same sources, other people at the top of the new OPM food chain include two people with apparent software engineering backgrounds, whom WIRED is not naming because of their ages. One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online résumé touts his work for Palantir, the government contractor and analytics firm cofounded by billionaire Peter Thiel, who is its chair. (The former CEO of PayPal and a longtime Musk associate, Thiel is a Trump supporter who helped bankroll the 2022 Senate campaign of his protégé, Vice President JD Vance.) The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company. Edited to 4 paragraphs, see whole article at link
Trump admin’s memo to federal employees 'closely mirrors' two-year-old email sent by MAGA ally ABC News White House policy reporter Cheyenne Haslett reported via X: "NEW: The memo sent to government employees this evening offering them buyouts very closely mirrors an email Musk sent to Twitter employees in 2022 — down to the same subject line 'A Fork in the Road.'" She added, "The 2022 email tells Twitter employees, 'Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.'" Furthermore, Haslett wrote, "Compare that to memo: 'The federal workforce should be comprised of the best America has to offer. We will insist on excellence at every level...And another similarity: in the same way the OPM [U.S. Office of Personnel Management] memo requires employees to only respond 'Resign' to the email to seal the deal, Musk asked Twitter employees to 'click yes on the link below' if they wanted to stay on at Twitter." The email continued, "Whatever decision you make, thank you for your efforts to make Twitter successful," Musk wrote in 2022. And this evening, the closing message to government employees by OPM: 'Whichever path you choose, we thank you for your service to The United States of America,'" Haslett noted.
This would explain why the emails from OPM went from looking like professional guidance to a fussy child.
