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White House Fears Elon Musk Is Still Pulling the Strings at DOGE (gizmodo.com)
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Though Trump and Musk are on the outs, workers with longstanding ties to the Tesla billionaire remain embedded in the government.

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe there's a reason we prefer tenure civil servants who don't have financial interest at odds with their job?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's the "deep state" according to MAGA, because they don't have the first clue how actual government works.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

The current administration is making Humphrey Appleby seem a much better option.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 14 points 3 days ago

Well, fucking get rid of all of them.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

This is getting out of hand.

That being said, if I wa either of them, id do anything and everything to ensure that the other guy didn't get me first.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

White house fears foreigners, news at eleven

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

Fear and Loathing in the Whitehouse