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1 month ago | 
muskwatch.com | Judd Legum
Elon Musk claims that the U.S. DOGE Service (DOGE) — a small group of Musk associates embedded in virtually every department of the federal government — have already saved taxpayers over $100 billion. In an appearance on Fox Business this week, Musk claimed he was saving $4 billion per day and was on track to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget. Is that true? Musk claims to operate with unprecedented transparency and has posted "receipts" for the savings on DOGE.gov.
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1 month ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
In an affidavit filed in federal court on Friday, a former senior civil servant at the Social Security Administration (SSA) detailed how deputies for Elon Musk forced their way into the agency, formed a clandestine unit, and gained access to its most sensitive databases.
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1 month ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
In a series of social media posts last month, White House advisor and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called for deorbiting the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as 2027. “The decision is up to the President, but my recommendation is as soon as possible,” Musk wrote on X. Although NASA intends to operate the ISS through 2030, Musk argued the station “has served its purpose” and should be supplanted by his dream of colonizing Mars.
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2 months ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
Meta removed an advertisement earlier this month criticizing Elon Musk’s use of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to seize Americans' private information. "A single individual now controls sensitive U.S. data, risking our national security. Urge Congress to enforce strict oversight," read the rejected Facebook ad purchased by Ekō, a watchdog group that says it is committed to curbing corporate power.
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2 months ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
When Elon Musk met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, the pair was seated in front of the American and Indian flags, an arrangement that typically accompanies a meeting between world leaders. Formalities were curtailed slightly by Musk bringing along three of his young children and their mother, Shivon Zilis, who is also an executive at one of Musk’s companies, Neuralink.
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2 months ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” web addresses that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape. Among the links were “child-porn.store” and “kkk-is-cool.club,” according to web traffic tracked by BuiltWith.
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2 months ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors, an official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) told Musk Watch. Staffers at the United States Department of Government Efficiency Service, or DOGE, a White House body led by Musk, embedded themselves at the CFPB late last week.
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2 months ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
It is hard to quantify the scale of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) impact across the federal government over the last week. But the bottom line is this: President Donald Trump has granted Elon Musk unilateral permission to bulldoze federal bureaucracy in a manner that conservatives have fantasized about for years. And through DOGE, Trump and Musk are ignoring the constitutional role of Congress to draft laws and authorize spending.
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2 months ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees. According to two members of OPM staff with direct knowledge, the Musk team running OPM has the ability to extract information from databases that store medical histories, personally identifiable information, workplace evaluations, and other private data.
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2 months ago | 
muskwatch.com | Caleb Ecarma
President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that he would take a hard line on China, imposing massive tariffs on all Chinese goods entering the United States. Since taking office, Trump has quickly abandoned those policies, instead promising much more modest tariffs on China — or none at all. A major beneficiary of this change is Elon Musk. The primary source of Musk's wealth, Tesla, is heavily dependent on the cooperation of the Chinese government.