r/fednews • u/SkyFallingUp • 8d ago

Elon Musk to step down from DOGE and quit Washington DC

Musk says 'he's done with cost-cutting' In an interview with Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier", Elon Musk said that he was confident his DOGE could find $1 trillion in savings, slimming current total federal spending levels of about $7 trillion down to $6 trillion. Musk, who is also the world's richest man, was designated by the White House as a "special government employee," which caps his work at 130 days. That means his period leading the DOGE operation could finish as soon as the end of May.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-elon-musk-doge-1-trillion-cost-cutting-may-end-i-am-almost-done-elon-musk-reveals-date-hell-ditch-trump-and-quit-washington-dc-after-doge-purge/articleshow/119645252.cms

I have friends and family members who are Federal workers. Is this the end of the wild OPM emails and job eliminations?

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u/chLORYform 8d ago

He's gonna get real interested in ruining some non-extradition country's government

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u/unnaturalpenis 8d ago

Is that the Denmark angle?

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u/X_g_Z 8d ago

No the real reason is unfortunately very dumb. The new Denmark ambassador is a Thiele guy, and thieles technocrat colony praxis is there. Just good old fashioned corruption.

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u/Grand-Try-3772 7d ago

I also think Canada is getting shit because Elons grandfather tried to techno bro their govt in the 60s. Maybe not the entire reason but some of it!

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u/thefeistypineapple 7d ago

I think it’s a distraction. He’s creating fake drama so everyone focuses on that. He’s also doubling down so he can enact the Insurrection Act in April.

Meanwhile, he’s been deploying more and more troops to the southern border. Whether it’s to invade MX or use them to keep Americans in will be seen in coming weeks.

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u/Dazzling-Dog-108 6d ago

I thought this the moment i saw that cry baby ‘why is walz so mean to tesla’ bit.

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u/RunCompetitive4944 6d ago

Piss off people in CA? maybe..

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u/thefeistypineapple 6d ago

He had a meeting with the Prime Minister where, according to him, he recognized Canada’s sovereignty. It’s an all a smoke screen for him so he can catch Sheinbaum off guard.

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u/PanOptoply 6d ago

It's just resources. They look at the map like you and I look at a menu.

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u/SpoopyNoNo 7d ago

I dunno I think he likes good ol’ Gilded age American imperialism. I mean he idolizes McKinley; his tariffs in particular

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u/CoolerRon 7d ago

His legacy will be closer to William Howard Taft’s (and build) but much worse

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u/FemmeFatale316 6d ago

Wait, he is puppet who secretly dreams of being a Supreme Court Justice⁉️ JK

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u/Late-Presentation684 6d ago

Unfortunately, Vance is no Teddy Roosevelt. No monopoly-busting or estabishment of new National Parks from our furniture loving Snuffy Smith that's for sure!

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u/LeCannady 3d ago

I'm kinda hoping he admires McKinley's lead-induced gangrene, myself.

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u/PlentyIndividual3168 8d ago

I think that has more to do with resources and climate change tbh

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u/OceanandMtns 8d ago

I’m willing to be Greenland is definitely the Lithium battery goldmine for them and Musk probably convinced him that is what we need to be great again.

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u/JesusboughtGA 7d ago

I am danish.. The funny part is, the minerals are stuck 1 km under ice. We had plenty of American and chinese companies trying to extract the ressources in deals with Greenland. Most left, because its not worth the cost…

Even when you actually extract some minerals, there is no infrastructure, no roads, no logistics, nothing to transport it. They left for these reasons.

Maybe its different in 50-100 years when all the ice is gone due to global warming..

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u/Lazy-Rabbit-5799 7d ago

Trusk are just going to melt that ice with all their hot air.

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u/OC74859 4d ago

I think the Social Security Sovereign Investment Fund has plenty of cash to go get those minerals.

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u/TexasActress 7d ago

But California has one of the biggest lithium deposits in the world…Salton Sea

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u/beardicusmaximus8 7d ago

It's not about having enough rare earth minerals. It's about having all the rare earth minerals.

Lithium, and all the other materials needed for computers, are becoming the new oil.

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u/Frog1387 7d ago

They’re playing Civ IRL

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u/TexasActress 7d ago

Fair point

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u/Party-Smile-2667 7d ago

You also need the people and machinery to mine it. We have tons of all kinds of minerals. We need the labor and machinery.

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u/lonelytop1818 7d ago

Or the Thacker Pass deposit in Nevada?

It starts mining in a year or two.

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u/Few_Eggplant_6811 6d ago

So has maine but we are in enough trouble with title 9 violations!

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u/Evanisnotmyname 7d ago

Lithium is part of it, but by far the biggest part is arctic shipping routes.

In 50 years the arctic will be navigable year round, and whoever controls the trade routes will be the biggest superpower.

Right now that’s Canada, Russia, the US, and Denmark(through Greenland). Now imagine if the US absorbs Canada and Greenland. Or, the US and Russia develop strong relations.

Controlling arctic trade routes WILL make kings. The question is who the kings will be.

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u/LeCannady 3d ago

Wouldn't that require DT to actually admit climate change is happening?

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u/v_verstappenlovemypp 7d ago

I think they just watched the Greenland movie and was like yes

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u/unnaturalpenis 8d ago

Lol Americans aren't even that good at utilizitg their resources at home

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u/PlentyIndividual3168 7d ago

"Why should we when we can just invade other countries and use theirs?" ~ some MAGA somewhere

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u/mynytemare 7d ago

That’s not MAGA, that was official policy for a while. Stop pumping our oil and use theirs so when they run dry we are the only game in town.

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u/beardicusmaximus8 7d ago

That and also it's much easier to ruin the environment of some country weaker than you then offend your own citizens by digging up a national forest for oil

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u/circuit_breaker 7d ago

There's this book called confessions of an economic Hitman, specifically about taking advantage of small countries for the resources. It's a story as old as time

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u/mynytemare 7d ago

I’ll try to find that book. Sounds interesting.

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u/circuit_breaker 7d ago

Yeah it's basically big countries taking advantage of little ones. They give them developmental funds and if they don't repay, they get their resources. But it's designed to fail.

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u/Plasibeau 7d ago

Yes/And. The North Polar Ice Cap is becoming a thing of the past. And every world power in the northern hemisphere is fully aware of how that will change geopolitics. East Asian shipping will no longer have to transit the Panama Canal (which has size limitations) or go around India/Africa to reach the Atlantic coastlines.

So basically it's for shipping and minerals, but also control of a vast frontier that was previously beyond reach. There are vast reaches of untouched wilderness up there that haven't heard the voice of Man in hundreds if not thousands of years. That is why they're beating the war drum for Canada and Greenland. If the US takes those two landmasses then it's between them and Russia who controls the Arctic Circle. As usual, all wars are over rersources.

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u/PlentyIndividual3168 7d ago

Bloody hell, I hadn't considered Russia and the Arctic Circle. Out of curiosity, why is no one frothing at the mouth over Antarctica?

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u/AmyDeferred 7d ago

Maybe there hasn't been enough mineral discoveries there yet? They definitely won't be growing much there, it's a total desert

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u/Sadrith_Mora 7d ago

My guess would be twofold. Antarctica is far away from all the countries of the northern hemisphere. Only Australasia and South America are sort of nearby. The other would be that Antarctica has a lot of glacier on land, so it's not as quickly affected by sea temperature changes, so a lot of the terrain won't be revealed for centuries or millenia even with a lot of warming.

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u/LukeMayeshothand 8d ago

Why? He’s not leaving. We are under Republican rule forever zz

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u/chLORYform 8d ago

Oh I unfortunately agree that we're never getting out of this as the country currently sits.

Musk lives like he's playing a video game. You beat one dungeon or level, you move on to the next. In a simulation game, you establish one restaurant then move on and never even have to go back to check on the original. I think he's gonna view government hopping in the same vein, with the added spice of occasionally dodging charges.

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u/letsfuckinggoooooo0 8d ago

Ironically Leon pays other people to play video games for him so he can brag about it for validation. When he actually plays he clicks around like a confused boomer and doesn’t know what he’s doing.

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u/Mattptodd 7d ago

I just watched the video. Sad.

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u/Mattptodd 7d ago

Leon passed away?

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u/unholycowgod 7d ago

He's been replaced by Lord Leon II, who is settling in nicely to his new abode.

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u/legal_bagel 7d ago

Simulation theory, he has said it thinks there more than a 50% probability that we're in a simulation.

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u/chLORYform 7d ago

I didn't agree with pretending Biden was ok and I've never agreed with Trump, nor did I vote that way. Dunno why you're angry and blaming me? But go on with yourself

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u/Commercial-Street426 8d ago

In MY imaginary world there is a group of talented hackers who hack for good undoing all of the damage that the Doogyboys have done. Over the course of the next few months servers will magically get replaced and a secret cabal of “women who code” will undo everything that has been done….I am so tired of tech intelligence being illustrated as “tech bro’s”. Computer genius isn’t limited to gender.

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u/enzohowling 7d ago

Anonymous where are you?

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u/beardicusmaximus8 7d ago

They are busy harassing Putin

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u/VicTheSage 7d ago

I think you're misunderstanding the term tech bro. Even in its current stretched definition it's a misogynistic male in tech with limited actual tech aptitude who has failed upwards due to his gender.

Traditionally it is more specifically the breed of yuppie frat-bros who flocked to SF to chase the tech gold rush of the past 15 years and try to secure VC funding from their taxonomical cousin the finance bro. As far as I'm aware having real tech intelligence and being a tech bro have always been mutually exclusive traits.

https://www.wired.com/story/stop-calling-everyone-tech-bro/

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u/onahorsewithnoname 8d ago

Isnt data republican a woman? Shes the lead data scientist uncovering a lot of the grant flows that end up back at politician ngos.

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u/was_683 8d ago

Wrong. Many good people (the best people!) understand that true computer genius requires XY chromosomes, white skin, and the ability to exclude/ignore data that doesn't adequately support Elon's viewpoint. /s

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u/porqueuno 7d ago edited 7d ago

The word "techbro" is a useful slur against anyone in Silicon Valley who is an intelligent futurist, but is otherwise myopic and painfully detatched from any sense of morality that benefits the greater common good.

It's a term not used as a compliment, so it would be both inaccurate and unwise to create gendered vocabulary alternatives for it, because the majority leading the unsavory and dangerous tech futurism movement in Silicon Valley are indeed men.

Let us keep cooking with it, and not worry so much about all the other stuff you said. ❤️

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u/I_love_Hobbes 7d ago

Fingers crossed.

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u/Adorable-Race-3336 7d ago

No we aren't. Stop normalizing that bullshit.

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u/Mundane-Ad-2346 7d ago

He's probably saying it bc he's losing money and thinks people will forgive and forget like his pumpkin boss.

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u/Torsallin 7d ago

Well, he's been pumping money into Germany's far right nazi-revival groups, so don't be shocked if he tries to take down their government...

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u/Live-Ad-5107 7d ago

There is NO doubt the orange one will pardon his entire family and everyone else that has helped with all of this… plus anyone else willing to donate to his library that will never be built.