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White House finally comes up with an official answer for who is running DOGE: an Obama honoree

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White House Finally Comes Up With An Answer For Who Is Running DOGE: An Obama Honoree

Summary

The White House has named Amy Gleason as the acting administrator of DOGE, ending weeks of speculation.

Gleason, a former Obama-era “Champion of Change” and digital services expert, previously worked in Trump’s and Biden’s administrations. However, her appointment raises legal concerns since she has not been confirmed by the Senate.

Critics argue she is a figurehead while Elon Musk, whom Trump publicly put “in charge” of DOGE, wields real power.

Lawsuits challenging DOGE’s authority continue as Musk prepares for Trump’s Cabinet meeting.

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The problem they're going to run into is that everything has been coming from Musk, while Amy was in Mexico. So they're not covering themselves, they committing perjury.
- And what will they say when she comes back and tries to actually take control by destroying it?
  
  Or a judge starts asking how she was administrating her department from the hotel bar.
Lawyers say the reason administration officials refuse to admit that Musk is the de facto DOGE administrator is simple: To do so would guarantee losing those lawsuits filed in recent weeks that challenge DOGE’s authority.
The lawsuits start coming, and they don't stop coming...
MSM media isn't paying much attention, but federal unions have been almost constantly firing lawsuits, and adding to existing lawsuits. Class actions are growing even among people who weren't fired.
As much as trump and Elmo hate unions...
You'd think they'd have been aware that the multiple unions representing federal employees know the laws and regulations about federal employees better than literally anyone else.
They're not scrambling to respond, they're calming pulling prepared forms out of cabinets and following plans that have existed for decades. Not because they thought this would happen, because there was a nonzero chance it might eventually happen at some point.
Everytime this admin tries to pivot and tries a "new" idea they just thought of, union lawyers just pull the next form out.
Because they knew what a hostile admin would/could try and how to stop it.
- So there is still hope for USA?
  
  There's always hope...
  What we hope for will change, and how difficult it will be to get that will change.
  But there's literally always hope. It's why fascists spend the majority of their time telling people there's no hope.
  If there was no point in us fighting back, they'd encourage it because it would be funny to them to see us fail. That's the type of people they are.
  Literally everything Elmo and Trump did with the "fork" was designed to convince federal employees there was no hope so they should take the fork...
  If they could just fire the federal employees that wanted to, they wouldn't have offered 7 months pay and benefits for resigning
  
  Americans are making a frankly terrible showing fighting Trump, but America is not even close to too far gone. Trump's de-democratization of America is still in the phase where if you just give him a good scare with a mass demonstration he'll back down
God I hope this backfires and she absolutely fucks them in court during the hearings challenging all the bullshit they’ve done.
- History has shown us that CONSEQUENCES will be SEVERE for LYING in Court!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk in a nutshell.
- What am I looking at?
  
  A still from Command and Conquer Red Alert where the Russian leader is working with Yuri to take over the world.
  
  Screen from critically acclaimed video game Red Alert 2.
- Does this mean they can be sent to space?
  https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM
Republicans enact cruel and stupid policy.
Democrats refuse to reform cruel & stupid policy because it benefits their backers. In fact, Dems may even brag about how THEY are even better at it.
Cruel & stupid policy predictably backfires - and gets blamed on Democrats who pretend they had no control over anything.
What I suspect is happening is that Trump is attempting to give Democrats an opportunity to get in on DOGE while it still polls well.
SMH. Libs... Keep blaming the voters tho....
- how do you think this is not the voters. because trump just now threw someone once hired by a democrat??? I have no idea what you think is funny or incongruous. Everyone who voted for trump or did not vote against him should be damned to live through his administration and unfortunately so will the people who voted harris who don't deserve it.

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