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Timeline: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/doge-backed-halt-at-cfpb-comes-amid-musks-plans-for-x-digital-wallet The team’s initial entry to CFPB Thursday had been accompanied by an “Assignment Agreement,” or a memorandum of understanding between the efficiency initiative and the consumer agency, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg News. It explained that authority for the CFPB operation emanated from a Jan. 20 executive order. It also said that the scope of the DOGE team’s efforts would include, “work on software modernization initiatives,” the promotion of “inter-operability between agency networks and systems” and the use of software engineering to “champion the use of modern technology development and management approaches.” On Friday, four DOGE staffers—Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Nikhil Rajpal and Jordan Wick — were described as needing to be onboarded and provided with complete building access in an email sent to a half-dozen CFPB officials by Chris Chilbert, the agency’s chief information officer. Chilbert asked employees to give the DOGE team the benefit of the doubt. “I know there’s a lot going on in the press and on social right now,” Chilbert wrote. “It’s hard to separate fact from fiction. Please reach out to me anytime you have questions or concerns. I’m very proud of the work we’ve done to build a strong technology foundation and I think we have a lot of good things we can show” DOGE. By Friday evening, according to an email sent by Chilbert that was seen by Bloomberg News, Vought had instructed CFPB to give DOGE administrative access – a much broader form of permissioning. A few hours later, CFPB’s X account was deleted, and the home page of the agency’s website was partially dismantled. CFPB employees who read the memorandum of understanding started backchannel discussions about it... They asked why DOGE would need to access the human resources, finance and procurement data if its goal was to modernize the agency’s software, the people said. By Saturday afternoon, according to five people familiar with the matter, the DOGE team’s administrative access had expanded, giving users the ability to choose which of the agency’s internal systems they can explore. That night, Vought began to lay the groundwork for overhauling and at least temporarily shutting down the CFPB. He sent an email to all the agency’s employees under the subject line, “Directives on Bureau Activities,” which prohibited them from issuing any public communications, continuing pending investigations or launching new probes. It also ended all supervision and examinations. On Sunday afternoon, Martinez, the chief operating officer, sent an email to CFPB staff informing them that the agency’s headquarters will be closed this week and they should work remotely. Employees who were in the office were ordered to vacate the building by the agency’s director of security.

Because the goal is destroying the agencies and stealing the information on the way out. EM is getting lots of information which will help his businesses get a competitive advantage. They brought in programmers because it isn't about government waste, it is about government "spending my tax dollars on things I don't want" which has become a common refrain from the far right to justify attacking anything they dislike. I bet the programmers are coming in, and running scripts on these internal datasets looking for coded entries. It is why they can turn around so fast and say "LOOK! We wasted X amount on this thing in the last 10 years!" because they found X payments that fit their search algorithm and if they don't like, if it doesn't fit their ideology, it is bad. The joke is "orange man bad" but in reality we are seeing "whatever orange man dislikes is bad". It will get far worse. We are maybe a couple months at most away from the judiciary being ignored. Everything trump says is true, anything against him we should have no respect for, at least that's what the current climate is. We're in the endgame now.

Musk wants the CFPB shutdown because of his plans with X Wallet. It is all a grift. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/doge-backed-halt-at-cfpb-comes-amid-musks-plans-for-x-digital-wallet

More info, Elon Musk deeply involved in destroying an office that protected consumers from people like him https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/g-s1-47322/musks-team-takes-control-of-key-systems-at-consumer-financial-protection-bureau

Russ Vought orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work. This was the government group that made sure banks and loan sharks didn't do what they did in 2008 and crash the entire economy. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-stop-work-russ-vought/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/legal-experts-constitutional-crisis-vance-musk-judicial-rulings-trump-rcna191387

Glory glory to Ole Georgia... and to hell with Georgia Tech In all seriousness though, one thing the Bills defense has not had in years, is that dawg mentality and I don't mean Georgi, I mean that I am going to get after you or die trying. Oliver sometimes does but the defense just lacks that snarl. I hope they draft some guys that are really aggressive and physical. They need line help, linebacker help, and safety/corner help. Buffalo didn't reach the superbowl because the defense was awful.

Defense wins championships

This feels so cathartic.

If DOGE and Musk were really looking for fraud, wouldn't they have hired forensic accountants instead of programmers?

There's no point though, countering the *****. In about 4-6 months things will start to get bad. It will take that long for the lag and the stacking of problems. I'm done with this here, it will get worse long before it's gonna get any better.

They can't give proof unless it's manufacturing outrage based on 1 tiny thing. Like Hank posting the USAID thing above that we're clearly suppose to blame them because 15yrs before a dude became a terrorist they helped get him into college. I wish a group of adults would audit the government and make recommendations to eliminate waste but the goal isn't to eliminate waste, it's too privatize everything.

Let's look at Derek Hunter, I'm just going to post the titles of things he's wrote within the last month: "USAID Might Be the One Thing Democrats Love More Than Abortion" "Democrats Insist On Destroying Themselves. Let Them." "Democrats Can't Quit Kamala Because They Have Nothing Else" "Imagine What Republicans Could Achieve Without Undoing Democrats’ Failures" "Trump’s Department of Justice Needs To Go After the Biden Family Immediately" "Republicans Need to Treat Liberal Journalists Like the Garbage They Are" "Getting Ready to Exhale After Four Years of Biden and Democrats" Derek Hunter sure seems like a fair impartial source of information we should give credence too... I mean that's if we ignore his open hatred of liberals and his total lack of fact checking or sources in his opinion pieces

Lol trying to claim cutting 4 billion in NIH funding as wasteful is hilarious considering all the evidence that every dollar of nih funding nets 2.5 dollars back. Of course believing that Elon Musk, a man with billions in government contracts is just doing this out of the goodness of his heart is also hilarious. Trump ballooned the deficit with his tax cuts for rich ppl and now story is we gotta cut spending because the democrats just take all the money. I don't trust DOGE because there's no transparency and there's no vision as evidence by the NIH cuts. Keep claiming not to be a die hard conservative though Hank. Of course you've dumped enough 1 sided propaganda into this thread to convince any sane person otherwise. When Musk and Trump turn around and privatize everything they destroy costing tax payers more while also getting more tax breaks ik you won't post that. You didn't last time it happened and you won't now. Y'all wanna know what musk and Trump are doing? Project 2025. Destroy the government, privatize everything, profit. It's pretty simple.

Cozens continues to get pp time and it's just mind boggling.

Last 10 games - Ryan McLeod, 6g, 4a, +8 Dylan Cozens, 1g, 4a, -2 Season - Ryan McLeod, 12g, 16a, +10, 51gp Dylan Cozens, 11g, 16a, -18, 54gp

Sabres jumping into the break like:

Going into the 3rd period like:

NIH cuts will impact ongoing clinical trials, cancer research, and drug research. Most likely outcome is researchers leave the US and develop these things elsewhere. This will lead to a continually negative economic outcome and worse health outcomes for Americans. Hitting NIH and universities will cost jobs and lives. NIH cuts are part of project 2025. It's part of the plans efforts to privatize everything in America to further their Christian Nationalist agenda.

Take a look at how NIH funding impacts your state: https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-state/

Rough estimate is just over 1 billion dollars will now disappear from NY higher education. Universities can either reduce research which costs a lot of money, raise tuition, or find other funding streams if possible. Considering there's a project 2025 push to tax endowments by 21% we might be at the start of the compete collapse of research universities. For example the university at Buffalo, along with roswell Park, and children's hospital would be impacted by this. UB in particular could be forced to cut all kinds of support staff as well as SUNY might have to raise tuition. It will end up costing more than it will ever save but project 2025 is about destruction.

Ok, show the dataset that has that. Cuz I'd believe Kennedy about as far as I can kick him up Mt everest.

Great example of Elon Musk not understanding how research grants work and deliberately using the term "siphoning" while referencing a graphic he created, or his team. Admin would only be a fraction of indirect costs. But again, where's the money going. Heres more info. Harvard def is crappy and deserves less but it's a negotiated rate https://osp.finance.harvard.edu/fa-rate-agreements Just looked up UB, they run between 50 and 60%. The result of this will be students will pay more in tuition. https://www.buffalo.edu/research/research-services/ub-rates-and-facts/ub-and-rf-rates.html But wait, there's more: Source for this info: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/report-every-dollar-nih-research-funding-doubles-economic-returns Here's a good read up on the outcome and it's not cost savings: https://bsky.app/profile/drmikewiser.bsky.social/post/3lhogq6rlzu2c

The fact they had to figure that out after never making the playoffs speaks volumes to the lack of leadership from the players to the coaches to the GM. Immature children all around.