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It was just part of the article. Point is he knew that he had no legal right to freeze funding, but did so anyways.

So it's alleged fraud/corruption then. I wish they'd just quit playing politics, because there's no election for 2 more years. The last thing this country needs is endless campaigning. You found waste? Fine fix it. You found corruption? Nail em. You identify fraud? Keep quiet and build cases. Save the political theater until summer 2026.

For me it's simple that Elon needs to just shut up, and do his thing LEGALLY, especially when it comes to talking about "cutting" anything. The guy acts like he's a branch of government, and holds power. He holds no power, except that as an ADVISER. Also, he's only legally allowed to work 130 days as a 'special government employee', which I'd bet anything they won't honor. I love what he's doing, but hate how he's doing it. Him and the prez have this 'it's all about me' thing, that's unbecoming of a public servant.

Stop wasting eggs!

Fraud is criminal, so if he found all this fraud, where are the criminal cases? I hope he does find it, but claiming to have found it, without proof, is political theater. So far most of what I've seen has been spending on things the trump administration doesn't like, but were appropriated through budgets. Republican budgets mind you. I wish they'd save the fraud/corruption accusations for when they can present their case to the people.

I called this thread idiocy. Nice try.

Much like Trump, President Richard Nixon didn’t want to spend money on certain social and environmental programs that Congress had approved, so he just refused to spend it. “He was sued over that. He lost all the cases that were decided on the merits, including 9-0 in the Supreme Court,” Super said. “But Congress decided to pass a law giving him a legitimate path to propose impounding, or not spending, money.” That law — the Impoundment Control Act — says that if the president doesn’t want to spend money on, say, food stamps, upgrading infrastructure or foreign aid for whatever reason, he must go back to Congress and ask them to reconsider. So far, Trump hasn’t done that.

What happened to option C : Don't send the check, and arrest the fraudster.

Doh!

You can't beat idiocy with more idiocy.

There's no need to take the MAGA approach here. Eggs aren't his fault, and he's not rationing them.

It's almost comical how they paint anyone who wants a metered approach to be pro wasteful spending.

As usual the truth is somewhere between what both parties are selling you. The rotting crops, unpaid farmers, and starving people are empirical evidence that the gasoline and match approach wasn't wise.

LOL. Wait until you see what was going on with the REAL money. The corruption at the Pentagon and foreign aid makes that look like nothing. USAID's budget is $40B. Peanuts! The real question is, why do we keep funneling hundreds of billions more into this black hole: The Pentagon, which houses the United States Department of Defense (DoD), failed its financial audit again, marking the seventh consecutive year of such failure. This latest audit revealed that the DoD could not account for 60% of its $4.1 trillion in assets. This amounts to a staggering $2.46 trillion that remains unaccounted for. The DoD’s inability to track such a vast sum of money underscores significant financial mismanagement within the department. The failed audits themselves cost $175M. That's A LOT of drag shows.

Musk is trumps play toy. I have no idea how anyone thinks Elon's above him. I think it ends badly for Musk.

Elon's green grift is over(hopefully). Just reminding his fans about what they had forgotten. When he saves us double what he took, then we can discuss forgiveness. Officials are "immediately suspending" approval for all state plans funded by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, a $5 billion initiative to build a network of EV chargers across the US, according to a memo to state transport directors released on Thursday. The memo said leaders at the Transportation Department had "decided to review the policies underlying" the implementation of the NEVI program, with updated draft guidance due to be published this spring. Until then, "no new obligations may occur" under the NEVI program, a move which puts plans to build EV chargers across multiple states announced late last year into limbo. With the scarcity of EV chargers still one of the main concerns putting people off buying electric vehicles, the dismantling of the program will likely be a major blow for EV adoption in the US — and for Tesla, which has been one of NEVI's biggest beneficiaries.

This time trickle-down is going to work, I promise: President Donald Trump’s tax cut wish list would cost would the federal government between $5 trillion and $11.2 trillion in lost revenue over the next decade, according to a new analysis from a budget watchdog group.

Not at all. The argument that Elon should have grifted an incompetent govt, because he could, isn't one I'm willing to hear. Do you think Telsa is a company that will have long-term success? Success that the government should have invested in if global warming is a hoax, and that it should be building chargers on a grid, that can't handle it?

Who do you blame? Only the people who granted it, or them AND the guy who profited from it?

I didn't say any were, but most people agree that subsidizing electric cars for global warming, and chargers for a grid that can't handle it were. Only fanbois would disagree.

They'll twist some stupid little thing. Why use a knife for surgery, when you can just pour gasoline?

So it was the journalists who destroyed him, not his own racist commentary. Gotcha.

Contracts are better than grants/subsidies, but are also bad when built on lies.

When are we going to get to work on the Pentagon, where the REAL waste/corruption is. When I was a kid they had already uncovered that a $3 screwdriver costs $800. Has "Mike" been ranting about that??? What about $400 bandages at the ER?

Yes. Most of this "corruption" is going to be what was legally distributed funds. You think all $35 trillion was taken illegally? Almost all of it was grifted.