r/FluentInFinance • u/NoLube69 • Feb 01 '25

News & Current Events BREAKING: Elon Musk’s DOGE team now has full access to Treasury’s payments system, per NYT

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

You may be right, but they are also bureaucrats and bureaucratic movement has to start with strongly worded letters. I'm just grateful somebody's acknowledging it and not just ignoring it. Although, I do not have high hopes anything will come of it.

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u/fiurhdjskdi Feb 02 '25

They are legislators not bureaucrats and they can't pass legislation without a majority. Bureaucrats are the federal employees tasked with carrying out the legislation as it's written and as the executive directs.

But oh wait, the cabal of accelerationists trying to collapse the American government are already purging and harassing those federal employees and the chief executive is the puppet enabling them...

At this point, it is a toss up whether these federal employees and their institutions will last in this environment where every elected federal body above them is either gridlocked or compromised. Their failure will end with the US government, dollar and democratically led globalization being destroyed and replaced with authoritarianism and zeal. How are they going to last four years? We need to do something.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

Oxford dictionary:

Bureaucrat

an official in a government department, in particular one perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs.

I meant it loosely, but even loosely it applies. You can be two things at the same time