Adi Robertson
Nuclear whiplash.
Managing nuclear weapons seemed like something Donald Trump and Elon Musk agreed was actually important — but according to one employee who contacted Virginia Democratic Representative Don Beyer, maybe not.
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Constitutional crisis intensifies.
On top of apparently flouting judicial demands involving the Treasury and USAID, the Trump administration is allegedly still freezing scientific grant funding in spite of a court order:
The federal judge overseeing the case brought by 22 states found that the Trump administration had not fully complied with the January 31 order. The judge issued a new order directing the Trump administration to “immediately end any federal funding pause.” According to an NIH source, no action was taken in response to the new order.
It got the facts right but the story wrong.
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DOGE (reportedly) has full access to a major US payment system.
Contrary to earlier reports, Wired (in a story since confirmed by other reporters) says that a member of Elon Musk’s pseudo-department has:
“the ability not just to read but to write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: The Payment Automation Manager (PAM) and Secure Payment System (SPS) at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS). Housed on a top-secret mainframe, these systems control, on a granular level, government payments that in their totality amount to more than a fifth of the US economy.”
In other words, a budget passed by democratically elected US lawmakers could — reportedly, in theory — be overruled by a Big Tech lackey.
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