Elon Musk maybe slipping out the board….
But the Washington Post reports that to get around judges and courts?
They are quietly REFUSING to spend money Conbgress has approved for progams and actions thruout the government…
This is another way Trump & Co. are working to get around orders to keep stop cuts….
The other way they operate is cut staff from agencies and departments so while they obet judges and courts?
There is NO staff to run things they want to cut….
Elon Musk, who is preparing to step back from his work leading DOGE, recently told reporters at the White House that his team had remade the government in a way that would benefit Americans.
“In the grand scheme of things, I think we’ve been effective,” he said. “Not as effective as I’d like. I think we could be more effective. But we’ve made progress.”
However, Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, said the Trump administration and DOGE appear to be “deliberately embedding red tape into government” by instituting “needless additional reviews of already-approved grants.”
“This makes sense if you assume that the purpose of DOGE is not to make government work better,” Moynihan said in an email, “but to stop government from working at all.”
The $1 spending limit on government-issued credit cards has alsocaused chaos at several other agencies since February, when DOGE began enforcing it. A Feb. 26 executive order imposing a “freeze” on these cards, with exceptions for “critical services,” cast the measure as an effort to ensure that “employees are accountable to the American public.”
Within parts of the Social Security Administration, the spending limit has for months left staffers unable to pay for phone bills, foreign-language interpreters and basic office supplies, according to several employees and records reviewed by The Post. That’s because less than a dozen people are responsible for approving most new purchases made by 1,300 offices.
One employee in an Indiana field office said that basic office supplies are running low, and managers have instructed staffers to ration paper and to avoid printing unless necessary. Some staffers have begun buying their own pens, but toner cartridges, at $200, are too expensive, the employee said….
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At the Defense Department, the spending limit initially prevented some employees from making the roughly 100 purchases of raw materials needed each week for ballistics testing on body armor and helmet impact experiments. After 30 days, the limit was lifted, said one Defense employee, but staff are still racing to make up for the delays.
Early on, the spending freeze also wreaked havoc at the National Park Service, where staffers could not buy the medicine needed to care for visitors or the horses ridden by some park rangers, said an employee there….
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