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Elon Musk was at USAID this weekend trying to access a SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility], State Department source tells me
February 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
USAID's decentralized network of resident field missions is drawn on to manage U.S. government programs in low-income countries for a range of purposes.
Disaster relief
Poverty relief
Technical cooperation on global issues, including the environment
U.S. bilateral interests
Socioeconomic development
yellow dahlia
(5,866 posts)LisaL
(47,423 posts)Are his actions legal?
Walleye
(44,797 posts)Seems like United States is intent on committing suicide here
LisaL
(47,423 posts)non Trump voters didn't cause it.
obamanut2012
(29,367 posts)Nor rhe barely legal boys helping him
Ocelot II
(130,519 posts)of whether they have been appointed or elected. But Eloon knows he'd be pardoned for anything. What he's doing probably is illegal in the sense that he has no government position - he doesn't even seem to have been appointed to any official position. DOGE is something he made up and Trump is just letting him do it.
Walleye
(44,797 posts)Somewhere other than US.
Walleye
(44,797 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,911 posts)If you send him back to Africa, he'll still be free to wreak a lot of the havoc he's currently forcing on us. He needs to be removed from society altogether.
Walleye
(44,797 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,911 posts)And, I don't see the DOJ, Immigration, or anyone else doing that.
Dave says
(5,425 posts)he can do a lot of harm. He can threaten a sledgehammer of suffering if he felt threatened and make good on it. We are in for a whole lot of hurt over at minimum the next 2 years.
GoCubsGo
(34,911 posts)the owners of the half billion firearms floating around in this country, and he's bound to piss off more than a few of them. am sure he's already doing so. I can see even his own security eventually turning on him, too. And, his Ketamine dealer.