1. United States
2. Ga.
3. Letter

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a “temporary organization” President Donald Trump created by renaming the U.S. Digital Service, has entrusted some of the nation’s most sensitive data to six inexperienced and unvetted young men who operate at the whims of Elon Musk. That includes the U.S. Treasury Department’s payment system, where a 25-year-old Musk aide named Marko Elez reportedly had administrator-level access to systems that paid out $5.45 trillion in fiscal year 2024. (Elez resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal asked about social media posts he made that advocated for eugenics and promoted racism. Musk has pledged to rehire him.) There have been reports of similar chaos at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a target of Project 2025, and the Department of Commerce. Trump created DOGE at Musk’s behest, enlisting the world’s richest man to cut costs across the federal government after Musk spent more than $250 million to help elect him. He’s since plunged the government into chaos as he’s tried to bully and cajole federal workers into quitting and reportedly siphoned government data off onto private servers. Musk also has not been vetted or approved by Congress. House Democrats attempted to subpoena him this week, but Republicans on the House Oversight Committee blocked the motion. This information has been reported on public news servers. Add to this the fact that Trump is now trying to fire government leaders concerned with ethics and conflicts of interest, and it does not look like efficiency is what the new “Department of Government Efficiency” is targeting. Trump is trying to install himself as king, and the unelected Musk is enriching himself, and all big “corporations = persons” by helping him. Whether just a simple swindle, preying on gullibility, or the actual application of guerrilla tactics like psychological operations and propaganda on generations of rural Americans, this wholesale manipulation of America, aided by hundreds of millions poured by unelected Musk into Trump’s reelection effort is disturbing to me. I worked under a Federal oath, as have all these people Musk is firing. I am an American citizen, as are billions of people whose data Musk has stolen, and to which he has altered access. Not elected, not vetted, not cleared, but doing all of it - as Trump has said - with his implicit permission and even blessing. PLEASE DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO STOP THESE MEN. Arrest and imprison the convicted felon, despite the previous administration’s refusal to do so, sitting on their hands to avoid it “looking political.” He is a Clear and Present Danger, and a domestic threat. He and Vance and Musk are making it almost as if an arrogant dictator from the past has risen to take over our country.