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FIGHT AGAINST ELON
MUSK'S GOVERNMENT
TAKEOVER The EO also moved the agency from the Office of Management and Budget to the Office of the President and tasked it with upgrading government IT systems. After spending $288 million to help elect Trump, billionaire and Nazi sympathizer Elon Musk has begun to influence various parts of the federal governmen t through the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump established DOGE via an executive order renaming the existing U.S. Digital Service agency, which previously managed government websites like the health insurance enrollment site healthcare.gov and the new IRS Direct File system. However, the moves that Musk and his aides have since made go far beyond that mandate. block payments for anything he opposes. Musk requested, and has since been granted by the newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, full access to the government's payment systems that control disbursement of over $6 trillion and contain sensitive information pertaining to millions of Americans' tax refunds, Social Security payments, sa laries, and more. It is unclear why Musk and his DOGE team desire access to these system, but the implications are alarming as this access allows Musk to gain." Musk used a similar tactic when he took over Twitter. ically nonpartisan operation that serves as the government's HR. This new team locked out senior career employees from the department's system and sent o -Musk installed allies - former employees from Musk's other businesses and other political loyalists - in the Office of Personnel Management (0PM), a typ ut a memo to the entire federal workforce offering bogus buyouts to people who "don't want to work in the office and contribute to making America great a