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Who Let the DOGE Out?

2025/2/8
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Lovett or Leave It

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This chapter details Elon Musk's controversial involvement in the Trump administration, including his access to the Treasury Department's payment system and attempts to shut down USAID. It highlights the concerns raised by Democratic leaders and the legal challenges that followed.
  • Elon Musk granted top secret security clearance and designated a special government employee
  • Musk and his associates gained access to Treasury Department's payment system
  • Attempts to illegally shut down USAID
  • Democratic leaders introduced legislation to stop unlawful meddling
  • Justice Department temporarily restricted Doge staff from accessing Treasury payment systems

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This week, Elon Musk is the ghost in the machine, that ghost being Slimer. The Treasury and USAID go down, Democrats stand up, and Mitch McConnell tumbles every which way but loose. Jason Isaacs stops by to share his decades of villain experience. Andy Richter and Paula Poundstone turn over a big rock and recoil at the week in news, and Lovett and his guests hand-select their teeniest, tiniest, pettiest complaints to share with you.

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