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Billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading US President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the federal government, will give an update on the effort early Monday amid reports he has been given access to a vital payments system at the Treasury Department reut.rs/3EvHYm2

reut.rsMusk to give update on reform effort amid questions about his powerBillionaire Elon Musk, who is heading U.S. President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the federal government, will give an update on the effort early Monday amid reports he has been given access to a vital payments system at the Treasury Department.

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With any luck, Musk will issue his update from a wide open space surrounded by tall buildings, to make for a truly historic moment.

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Billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading US President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the federal government, will give an update on the effort early Monday amid reports he has been given access to a vital payments system at the Treasury Department reut.rs/3EvHYm2

Someone needs to shut this person down. He was not elected, does not have an actual government position, & there should be no access. He should not bar govt staff from their places of work as they are working for us, not him. Musk should not be giving an update on what he is doing, Trump should be.

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WTAF? I don't want to hear an update from Musk, I want an update for someone who legally has authority to say anything (and will be honest about it)!

Allowing an uninvestigated, uncleared, untrusted foreigner access to sensitive information violates so many statutes and yet not one person with courage exists. Shut. Him. Down. This is how democracy dies.

This reads like, "he'll have a perfectly rational explanation. Let's just wait and hear what he has to say." So, private citizens who accessed millions of Americans' protected personal data are permitted to "update" their victims.

What do ya know, President Musk is going to address the nation after breaching all our secure personal data and robbing our tax dollars to achieve his ultimate goal: destroy democracy so he and his tech bros can build their own tech kingdoms complete with surveillance and controlled media.

He’s not an elected leader, he forced his way in and stole the access and info. Please report the facts of what’s happening instead of making it sound like this is perfectly fine.

He's a liar. Do not quote anything he says until you verify independently. If you repeat whatever he says without first checking, then you'll be contributing to the spread of lies and propaganda.

Still not getting the story right. Our financial systems have been breached. It’s simply true. Theil and Musk want to end western banking. He and his six H1B folks have inserted backdoors. Any country connecting electronically is at risk. Our cybersecurity is blown. That’s the story. Call Krebs.

He’s a private citizen. DOGE is not an official federal department. We have no idea what he is doing with our private data; this is a data breach. Arrest him. Stop justifying his actions.

He has NO fucking power! He’s a private citizen. He needs to go back where his ugly, greasy, waxy fucking face came from NO ONE wants him here! NO ONE!!!

Let him incriminate himself on the public record, but a functioning government would already have locked his teams out, done enough preliminary investigation to arrest him and his hacks, no bail, for the national security crimes it’s reported they’ve already committed

FU Rueters for making this lying lunatic look professional with this picture and for sane-washing him. Call it what it is. Illegal and unconstitutional interference by an unelected and disingenuous agent. Pure corruption. Pathetic.

Reform effort? What the ever living fuck! The news media rivals only the democratic leadership is pathetic sycophancy. The drug addled megalomaniac has a bunch of teen incels stealing the US Govt money and protected information and you assholes call it a “reform effort”

He’s in control of the treasury purse. I really have no words other than impeach Vought and Bessent. Remove Musk and slap a restraining order on him.

He's used to buying power, that's what he did with Twitter. Let's just hope those checks and balances hold up against the oligarchs. It doesn't get more Deep State than this!!!

Agree. I rather suspect he’s also used to using blackmail. What do you think that hoovering up of data was all about? The world has become a vastly more dangerous place w/ Trump’s core value being $, morality or decency be damned. Broke the oath of office & violated Constitution in no time at all.

Listen up America as this Musk man is not even able to pass the standard FBI security clearance. Don't get distracted as alot of bs cover ups for his devious power grab may be flowing. He has blatant conflicts of interest as he has high $$ contracts with the Fed. Gov for his space stuff. Reporters!!

Senator Brian Schatz #hawaii on #cspan right now! My hero-speaking on the coup we are facing! Where the hell is other congressional leaders?#cyberattack #filibuster #standup protect #socialsecurity #veterans and #medicare #usaid No to #taxcuts and #Voight

Biggest data breach in history. The man that feels he deserved a 56 billion bonus. Is going to teach us to live within our means. This is freaking crazy.

Is it legal? No. If any of us did anything even close to what’s happening right now we would be shot. However laws don’t apply to rich people. So he won’t get so much as a fine for doing this.

We live on social security and pay about half of that to Medicare for insurance. is the plan to encourage retirees to die off as they cut-off the funding we paid for over sixty years? I want my money back, which should just about cover the urn for my ashes.