Department of Govt Efficiency (DOGE)

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@newrepublic/post/DIRbjRGIQvE?xmt=AQGzNQFVw6Gm6MrAdmTbiNo32cwHmIoNdQotAXDyYb6dBw

Musk’s DOGE has fired car safety experts in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration who directly regulated Tesla.

https://trib.al/tdnvkRx

mickeyrat

via Alt NPS

DOGE has quietly transformed into something far more sinister — not a system for streamlining government, but one designed for surveillance, control, and targeting. And no one’s talking about it. So we’re going to spill the tea.

From the beginning, DOGE’s true mission has been about data — collecting massive amounts of personal information on Americans. Now, that data is being turned against immigrants.

At the center of this effort is Antonio Gracias, a longtime Elon Musk confidante. Though he holds no official government position, Gracias is leading a specialized DOGE task force focused on immigration. His team has embedded engineers and staff across nearly every corner of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

But it doesn’t stop there.

DOGE operatives have also been quietly placed inside other federal agencies like the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services — agencies that store some of the most sensitive personal data in the country, including on immigrants.

DOGE engineers now working inside DHS include Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine (nicknamed “Big Balls”), Mark Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Payton Rehling. They’ve built the technical foundation behind a sweeping plan to revoke, cancel visas, and rewire the entire asylum process.

One of the most disturbing aspects of this plan? Flagging immigrants as “deceased” in the Social Security system — effectively canceling their SSNs. Without a valid Social Security number, it becomes nearly impossible to open a bank account, get a job, or even apply for a loan. The goal? Make life so difficult that people “self-deport.”

And if you’re marked as dead in the Social Security system, good luck fixing it. There’s virtually no path back — it’s a bureaucratic black hole.

You might ask: why do immigrants, asylum seekers, or refugees even have Social Security numbers? Because anyone authorized to work in the U.S. legally is issued one. It’s not just for citizens. It’s essential for participating in modern life — jobs, housing, banking, taxes. Without it, you’re locked out of society.

Last week, this plan was finalized in a high-level White House meeting that included DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Antonio Gracias, senior DOGE operatives, and top administration officials.

In recent weeks, the administration has moved aggressively to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants and international students — many of whom have been living and working in the U.S. legally for years.

At the core of this crackdown? Data.

DOGE has access to your SSN, your income, your political donations — and more. What was once sold as a tool for “government efficiency” has become something else entirely: a weaponized surveillance machine.

And if you think this ends with immigrants, think again.

Antonio Gracias has already used DOGE’s access to Social Security and state-level data to push voter fraud narratives during past elections. The system is in place. The precedent has been set. And average Americans should be concerned.

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

via Alt NPS

DOGE has quietly transformed into something far more sinister — not a system for streamlining government, but one designed for surveillance, control, and targeting. And no one’s talking about it. So we’re going to spill the tea.

From the beginning, DOGE’s true mission has been about data — collecting massive amounts of personal information on Americans. Now, that data is being turned against immigrants.

At the center of this effort is Antonio Gracias, a longtime Elon Musk confidante. Though he holds no official government position, Gracias is leading a specialized DOGE task force focused on immigration. His team has embedded engineers and staff across nearly every corner of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

But it doesn’t stop there.

DOGE operatives have also been quietly placed inside other federal agencies like the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services — agencies that store some of the most sensitive personal data in the country, including on immigrants.

DOGE engineers now working inside DHS include Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine (nicknamed “Big Balls”), Mark Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Payton Rehling. They’ve built the technical foundation behind a sweeping plan to revoke, cancel visas, and rewire the entire asylum process.

One of the most disturbing aspects of this plan? Flagging immigrants as “deceased” in the Social Security system — effectively canceling their SSNs. Without a valid Social Security number, it becomes nearly impossible to open a bank account, get a job, or even apply for a loan. The goal? Make life so difficult that people “self-deport.”

And if you’re marked as dead in the Social Security system, good luck fixing it. There’s virtually no path back — it’s a bureaucratic black hole.

You might ask: why do immigrants, asylum seekers, or refugees even have Social Security numbers? Because anyone authorized to work in the U.S. legally is issued one. It’s not just for citizens. It’s essential for participating in modern life — jobs, housing, banking, taxes. Without it, you’re locked out of society.

Last week, this plan was finalized in a high-level White House meeting that included DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Antonio Gracias, senior DOGE operatives, and top administration officials.

In recent weeks, the administration has moved aggressively to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants and international students — many of whom have been living and working in the U.S. legally for years.

At the core of this crackdown? Data.

DOGE has access to your SSN, your income, your political donations — and more. What was once sold as a tool for “government efficiency” has become something else entirely: a weaponized surveillance machine.

And if you think this ends with immigrants, think again.

Antonio Gracias has already used DOGE’s access to Social Security and state-level data to push voter fraud narratives during past elections. The system is in place. The precedent has been set. And average Americans should be concerned.

TLDR /s

No worries, white male privilege will make it go away and there’s no way it’ll be applied to me.

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@keithboykin/post/DIR1152T49b?xmt=AQGz-QkhA9bf_HkLURm7pu7sxLZrKyYZTlSIJ437Cb7fKA

Two planes collided on the ground at Washington National Airport today with members of Congress on board.

I don't see how this is a DOGE story.  The planes were on the ground and one was turning.  I would say pilot error.

This story though is definitely DEI or DOGE related /s...
https://www.aol.com/united-airlines-plane-snags-kite-140334046.html

mickeyrat

US SEC officials push back as Musk's DOGE seeks broad access, source says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sec-leaders-push-back-musks-doge-seeks-broad-access-source-says-2025-04-15/

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

US SEC officials push back as Musk's DOGE seeks broad access, source says - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sec-leaders-push-back-musks-doge-seeks-broad-access-source-says-2025-04-15/

Now the shizzy is getting realz. Don’t fuck with other people’s money. You know, the silent millionaires and billionaires from all around the world who relied upon a “stable” financial system for there il, cough, cough, haaa-choo, legitimate gains. Shitz is like Schlitz.

mickeyrat

The Russian IP address was logging in with the correct username and password that had been made by a Doge employee just minutes before.

Many security features like MFA, Geo fencing turned off.

 Doge destroyed the access logs and covered their tracks.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/whistleblower-org-says-doge-may-have-caused-significant-cyber-breach-us-labor-2025-04-15/

mace1229

tempo_n_groove said:

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@keithboykin/post/DIR1152T49b?xmt=AQGz-QkhA9bf_HkLURm7pu7sxLZrKyYZTlSIJ437Cb7fKA

Two planes collided on the ground at Washington National Airport today with members of Congress on board.

I don't see how this is a DOGE story.  The planes were on the ground and one was turning.  I would say pilot error.

This story though is definitely DEI or DOGE related /s...
https://www.aol.com/united-airlines-plane-snags-kite-140334046.html

I don't see a connection between a random guy flying a kite too high and DEI/DOGE?
I would think the areas around the airport would be monitored better, but it didn't say anything about reduced staffing preventing that from happening. I remember when I lived near LAX I was surprised how close the planes came to the parking structures without any protection. 

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@tomwellborn3/post/DIjIo7LM4UM?xmt=AQGzk7jPvD03KyTGP7vJ0k-r3bLOenEv2eTUN4F0EohsrQ

Musk has infested a federal choke point with loyalists; his lackeys at GSA are gutting democracy’s scaffolding while installing Starlink transceivers like spyware in a Cold War thriller. Public land sold in secret; AI slashing contracts; fascist efficiency cloaked in Silicon Valley jargon.
https://apnews.com/article/doge-musk-trump-ai-starlink-gsa-efficiency-d67a41d1be98db11f05ca8e4472f53bd

tbergs

Huh, who would have thought they'd be spending more since Elon is making everything so efficient. What a shocker. Of course this clown show will deflect that they have to spend more to fix all the Biden issues. I just can't believe there are people who believe this bullshit.

"Despite promises to cut spending during the campaign and his first few months in office, President Trump's federal government has spent more than $200 billion more in his first 100 days compared to the same time period last year.

In fact, the government is now spending more, day to day, than was spent in nine of the last 10 years. The exception: 2021, when the government was spending trillions to fight the coronavirus pandemic and prevent an economic disaster."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-promised-cuts-spent-200-billion-more/

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.com/@crucible_of_thought/post/DJJ7-P_R88O?xmt=AQGz1SzkDMCCqoU42zL1Jv_LEayXzyGqSK4nRh0Kb9g8Vw

DOGE has invaded "Pax River" - the Naval Air Station Patuxent River - which hosts the US Navy's largest and most mission-critical community of engineers and flight test experts, where new Naval aircraft and weapons systems are bought and tested. It's just an hour south of Washington DC. DOGE seems to be using its typical shady tactics to gain entry to spaces it's not authorized to visit, including threats and intimidation to fire employees who don't instantly comply.

tempo_n_groove

My sister works for a non profit that uses grants to help at risk kids.  DOGE cut the funding so the whole organization got furloughed.  They asked my sister to come back as they try and retain their funding.

This admin does not care for, apparently, at risk children or our youth in general.

My sister spent 2 weeks scrubbing the websites for any DEI mentions to appease the executive order by the President.  

mickeyrat

tempo_n_groove said:

My sister works for a non profit that uses grants to help at risk kids.  DOGE cut the funding so the whole organization got furloughed.  They asked my sister to come back as they try and retain their funding.

This admin does not care for, apparently, at risk children or our youth in general.

My sister spent 2 weeks scrubbing the websites for any DEI mentions to appease the executive order by the President.  

https://apnews.com/article/children-head-start-research-cuts-trump-hhs-ecfa2b140990057eb412e476dc875ffa

tempo_n_groove

mickeyrat said:

tempo_n_groove said:

My sister works for a non profit that uses grants to help at risk kids.  DOGE cut the funding so the whole organization got furloughed.  They asked my sister to come back as they try and retain their funding.

This admin does not care for, apparently, at risk children or our youth in general.

My sister spent 2 weeks scrubbing the websites for any DEI mentions to appease the executive order by the President.  

https://apnews.com/article/children-head-start-research-cuts-trump-hhs-ecfa2b140990057eb412e476dc875ffa

I'm glad someone (AP news) picked up on this and put it out there. When my sister told me about this I wasn't shocked in the slightest.  We should all be mad at this.

I attached a link that you should all read.  I would ask that you write to your representatives and  ask them to restore the funding.

Thanks.
https://nationalcasagal.org/national-casa-gal-federal-funding-terminated/

josevolution

They’re not going to go back on the funding for these programs no matter what representatives say or do, heck this administration is basically telling the SC to 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽off on anything they do push back on! Have they complied on any judgements against them? 

tempo_n_groove

This is an article in the WSJ. I figured it went here.  I don't see anything wrong with this unless it was a predatory loan.

PERSONAL FINANCE

Collections Coming for Millions of Student-Loan Borrowers

Education Department on Monday will threaten to confiscate tax refunds, federal benefits, wages

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The Trump administration is starting to put millions of defaulted student-loan borrowers into collections Monday and threatening to confiscate their wages, tax refunds and federal benefits.

There are some five million borrowers whose loans are in default, many of whom haven’t made regular payments since the pandemic. Millions more are on the cusp of default, according to the Education Department.

President Trump has made student-debt repayment a priority, a reversal from former President Joe Biden, who attempted to forgive swaths of student debt. Though a pandemic payment pause ended in 2023, the Biden administration extended a no-consequences period for those who didn’t pay through the 2024 election.

The Trump administration says it doesn’t have the authority to wipe away student debt and must collect on it.

Restarting loan payments—or penalties for not doing so—would be a burden for many Americans. It could sap their spending on everything from new cars to restaurant meals at an already uncertain economic moment.

“It’s a substantial additional cost,” said Rikard  Bandebo, chief economist at VantageScore, which tracks consumer credit. “People with the added obligation of these payments are going to have to make harder choices on what they spend on.”

Borrowers put student-loan debt on the back burner during the pandemic, and many say they didn’t know they were supposed to start paying again until they saw their credit scores drop in recent months. Companies that handle payments on the government’s behalf say they have worked to keep borrowers updated on what they owe and when L oren Linton, an Indiana-based airplane mechanic, canceled a trip to New York recently so he could afford to pay off more of his roughly $11,000 student-loan balance. He said his automatic payments on his loans stopped because of a technical issue, and he realized there was a problem only when his credit score dropped by nearly 300 points in March.

Linton, 51, has started to work more overtime as he juggles tighter finances, especially because his children are starting as undergraduates themselves in the fall.

“I just feel let down by the whole system because this was supposed to improve our lives, not bring it down,” Linton said.

Those who haven’t made payments in at least nine months are considered in default and face the most imminent threat of garnished wages, the Education Department said.

The agency said that on Monday it will start putting borrowers into collections, so some are likely to get notices saying so. That starts a clock until the department may start withholding federal benefits such as tax refunds and social-security checks, as well as garnishing wages. The first collection measures could start within 30 days, the Education Department said.

PJ_Soul

I think they should have given more warning at least.

tempo_n_groove

PJ_Soul said:

I think they should have given more warning at least.

Here is where I would disagree.  If you stopped paying your house note or rent you get kicked out.  Why would you think it was ok to just stop paying?

nicknyr15

tempo_n_groove said:

PJ_Soul said:

I think they should have given more warning at least.

Here is where I would disagree.  If you stopped paying your house note or rent you get kicked out.  Why would you think it was ok to just stop paying?

Stopped paying rent? Not in NYC. Good luck if a tenant stops paying. 

shadowcast

DOGE -Estimated  $165B in savings. FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!! Love it!!! https://www.doge.gov/savings