Elon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System—at Any Cost

https://newrepublic.com/post/190983/top-treasury-official-quit-elon-musk-fight-payment-system

34 comments

  1. Giving me some real “rich guy trying to control everything” vibes.

  2. Anyone want to bet he did the same for voting machines?

  3. Government employees will now be paid through X, the everything app.

  4. Musk is non elected and a national security threat….. plain and simple.

  5. The twit who brought the world Full Self Driving cars and dancers in robot suits is now poised to wrest control of trillions of dollars of our federal funds. Never, ever, in my wildest dreams did I see this coming.

    This is the dumbest coup in the history of coups, and it might even work.

  6. Can’t wait until I am REQUIRED to pay my taxes via Trumpcoin(TM).

  7. Everything the right has been bitching falsely about with Soros is true with Elon.

  8. Elon Musk should be deported as a dangerous foreigner.

  9. This is how he can easy mode his way to being the first trillionare

  10. I’m sure this will be fine. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? /s

  11. The most obvious insider threat in United States history.

  12. I have two bonds I need to cash, my bank will no longer cash bonds, so I need to submit a form, along with the bond itself  to the treasury and they will deposit the funds into my bank account. Kinda terrified I’m never going to see that money ever again. 

    (worked perfectly under Biden last year)

  13. Holy hell this is frightening.

    “after conflicting with Musk’s deputies over access to the government’s payment system used to distribute trillions of dollars every year.”

  14. Why the fuck is this guy anywhere near the government?!?

  15. This is terrifying shit. They are going to just fuck up payments on things on purpose and see if anyone has the power to stop them.

  17. The guy who was ousted from PayPal due to his blatant disregard for obvious security and verification concerns of a financial platform wants to have control of a payment system for social services? Seems good.

  18. I’m wondering when it will be sussed-out that he, through various Venezuelan shell companies, owns Dominion Voting Systems.

  19. The famous criminal Willie Sutton was once asked why he robbed banks, and his response was simple and eloquent: “Because that’s where the money is.”

    Of course, Musk and his criminal gang attempted to rob the U.S. Treasury, that’s where the money is.

    Prosecute Elon Musk and his co-conspirators for attempted bank robbery.

  20. Proof that there is no deep state . All intelligence agencies are currently watching a foreign born asshole with ties to china and Putin destroy the country.

  21. Elon Musk must be prevented from robbing the U.S. Treasury. Musk is a national security threat of the highest order and must not be permitted to have access to America’s bank.

    Musk’s DOGE was conceived to skirt disclosure requirements and vetting of China businessman Elon Musk, who has disqualifying ties to the CCP. Musk’s Tesla operating in China is subject to Chinese law requiring it to “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work”. Tesla Shanghai produces 50% of Tesla’s global auto output.

    On January 17, 2025, the unanimous SCOTUS identified that a national security threat existed with ByteDance Ltd. See: *TikTok Inc. v. Garland*, 604 U.S. 3 (2025):

    >ByteDance Ltd. is subject to Chinese laws that require it to “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work” and to ensure that the Chinese Government has “the power to access and control private data” the company holds. H. R. Rep. No. 118–417, p. 4 (2024) (H. R. Rep.); see 2 App. 673–676.

    Musk’s connection to the CCP, (like ByteDance’s connection) makes Musk a national security threat to the United States. As a condition of Musk doing business in China, Musk must “assist or cooperate” with the Chinese Government’s “intelligence work”.

    Musk is doing the bidding of Beijing on issues such as TikTok, Taiwan, H-1B visas, and tariffs. Now Musk’s attempting to rob the U.S. Treasury. Respected officials like [Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro](https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-letter-congressional-leadership-musk-chaos-government-funding) (Democrat-CT-03, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee), and [retired military](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/opinion/elon-musk-china-classified-secrets-national-security-russia-doge.html) service members are sounding the alarm.

  23. So is he trying to do this as a way to stop all government payments since the Executive Order didn’t work? Or is he just hoping to steal several trillion dollars?

    Either way there’s no possible good reason he’d need this sort of control.

  24. I want off this ride.

    I just need to survive this administration for 18 months, then I’ll have enough saved to apply for a business startup visa overseas.

  26. Why isn’t the Republican party doing anything about this? Elon Musk doesn’t even have an official government job. They’re literally just letting an illegal immigrant access our Treasury and other government systems.

  27. This Russian plant is trying to rob the US treasury.

  28. If Elon is working in a position of public service, when did he pledge a sworn oath to protect and defend the constitution? As is required.

    Even conservatives should be uncomfortable with that notion.

  29. If he cuts off Medicare and Social Security I’m fucked. I’ll lose my car, my house, my ability to get food, everything. Absolutely everything.

    And with everyone losing their jobs and flooding the market it would be almost impossible for me to find another job, never mind my skill set it so so so far out of date it isn’t funny.

    If this all happens, and I lose all of that, I honestly don’t know what other choices I’d have in the world. I don’t see anywhere for me to go, and that’s damn depressing.

  31. Are they seriously trying to loot the god damn treasury?

  32. Call your representatives, especially the Republican ones, and tell them to start standing up to Elon Musk. He’s an unelected, unappointed, illegal immigrant getting rich off our tax dollars and now trying to interfere with the only benefits some working class folks have to retire on and were *forced* to invest in. It’s time they man up and protect our grandparents and veterans from having their benefits ended by the biggest illegal immigrant mooch of them all.

  33. When I heard he got rid of the FAA director, I was like who the fuck is he to do that?
    Why aren’t a single D leader stepping up and starting an inquiry of any kind or at least a threat of an inquiry.

  34. This is the coup. The billionaires won and now they plan to loot and gut the country like they would a corporation.

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