Elon Musk Claims US Institute Of Peace Deleted 'Terabyte' Of Data To 'Cover Their Crimes' which folks lead up to them handing MILLIONS of dollars over to the Taliban! Now this is incredible as these people were busted deleting a Terabyte worth of data which was records showing where the money went. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said all this on Wednesday Musk made the accusation while responding to a post detailing the efforts made by DOGE and law enforcement agencies to uncover fraud at the think tank. The USIP is a government-funded organisation focused on preventing and resolving global conflicts.
Elon claimed that despite USIP’s attempt to erase crucial data, DOGE had successfully recovered the information. DOGE is an initiative formed during Donald Trump’s second term, aimed at reducing public sector spending. “They deleted a terabyte of financial data to cover their crimes, but they don’t understand technology, so we recovered it," Musk said on X. The post that Musk responded to outlined how DOGE, with assistance from the FBI and Metro Police, fought for days to access the US Institute of Peace’s records. “The DOGE team fought for days to gain access to the United States Institute of Peace. Eventually, with help from the FBI and Metro Police DOGE was able to access the agency and discovered massive fraud, waste and abuse-including payments to Taliban and Iraq," the post read.
DOGE: The DOGE team fought for days to gain access to the United States Institute of Peace. Eventually, with help from the FBI and Metro Police DOGE was able to access the agency and discovered massive fraud, waste and abuse-including payments to Taliban and Iraq. pic.twitter.com/VymOebovfY
Reposting the user’s post with a comment, Musk also took the opportunity to mock the USIP, saying, “Any government institution is most likely to be the opposite of its name." The US Institute of Peace was established during former US President Ronald Reagan’s administration. According to a description on usa.gov, the USIP “promotes research, policy analysis, education, and training on international peace and conflict resolution in an effort to prevent and resolve violent conflicts, and to promote post-conflict stability." However, its official website has since been taken down.
In February, US President Donald Trump had signed an executive order aimed at reducing the size of the Federal Government, including actions against the US Institute of Peace, which is now under DOGE’s purview. The order had stated the goal of increasing accountability within government institutions. George Foote, who served as counsel to the USIP till he was dismissed by DOGE, is now involved in legal proceedings seeking to prevent the dismissal of top officials at the institute. Foote is challenging the legality of DOGE’s actions in court.
The Pentagon has NEVER passed an audit and our government cannot pass an audit but We The People are audited for $5 we received we can't account for? The double standards are outrageous and do no much harm to us the people who have been forced to foot the bill for the wasted money and fraud spending, and black budget projects. These agencies/departments that haven’t passed an audit, EVER, need to be closed down immediately! If their work is vital, send it to another agency.
With approximately 450 agencies/departments, we could lose 80% and still function fine.
According to Bloomberg’s Anthony Carpaccio, the Department of Defense made $35 trillion in “accounting adjustments” in 2019, easily surpassing the $30.7 trillion in such adjustments recorded in 2018. Carpaccio notes that the number “dwarfs the $738 billion of defense-related funding in the latest U.S. budget, a spending plan that includes the most expensive weapons systems in the world including the F-35 jet as well as new aircraft carriers, destroyers and submarines.” It’s also “larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in balancing its books.”
So what are these accounting adjustments? Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says they represent “a lot of double, triple, and quadruple counting of the same money as it got moved between accounts” within the Pentagon. “A lot” may be an understatement: According to government data, there were 562,568 adjustments made in the Pentagon’s books in 2018. Why it matters: More broadly, the number highlights the persistent lack of internal financial controls at the Pentagon, which makes it extremely difficult to account properly for spending in the largest government budget. “Although it gets scant public attention compared with airstrikes, troop deployments, sexual assault statistics or major weapons programs, the reliability of the Pentagon’s financial statement is an indication of how effectively the military manages its resources considering that it receives over half of discretionary domestic spending,” Carpaccio says.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), who asked the Government Accountability Office to look into the issue, said the “combined errors, shorthand, and sloppy record-keeping by DoD accountants do add up to a number nearly 1.5 times the size of the U.S. economy,” and charged that the Pentagon “employs accounting adjustments like a contractor paints over mold. Their priority is making the situation look manageable, not solving the underlying problem.”
With that many agencies/departments, they don’t talk to each other, share info, and are WAY TOO involved in our daily lives.
Our Founding Fathers created a SMALL, LIMITED government, not the huge mega employer. (The largest employer in the US is the federal government, think about that one). Most of the black hole the money entered is literally going to black budget projects dealing with other worldly Tech. YES UFO's/UAP's are involved in getting this lost money. A LOT went to companies like Lockheed Martin and other members of the companies used to create things from crashed found and traded to us "UFO'S" or SPACE CRAFTS from Other worlds. Our service members have a very special place in how this country runs, but I’d cancel the Pentagon’s funding (with the exception of pay for service members) if they cannot account for the Trillions for decades which add up to the $35 TRILLION (that would essentially pay off our National debt). Just think the tech they are hiding from us?
This is what lead to a more formal UFO/UAP disclosure and it's no secret why it's going to be Doge and ELON doing this! He of SPACE X after all would be the ideal person under the leadership of Donald Trump our President to make these records make sense, and dig as deep as needed to expose it all. This is where the fun begins.
So a liberal Judge in New York has put a temporary hold on Elon Musk, and President Trump + DOGE’s Treasury Access.! All this after we find out where the waste of the USAID money is going and liberals are up in arms cause the end of the gravy train is done, and so here Are All The Major Lawsuits Against Trump. Question is what is the left so scared about huh?
A New York judge has temporarily barred Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing a sensitive Treasury payment system, after over a dozen Democratic states sued late Friday the latest in a slew of legal actions as Democrats and others fight President Donald Trump and cost-cutting Elon Musk in court. But what are these people so scared about? Hmmm Remember these activist DA's like Letitia James are known to go and get whatever they want from Liberal Judges and this is who "Judge Paul Englemayer" is and it's no different than the people used against the Trials vs Trump before he won re election. They're always going to find a way to lie, cheat and steal with these liberal NY Judges... Simple as that. This is part of the corruption these liberals keep hiding in.
Feb. 8Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled political appointees and “special government employees”—like members of Musk’s team—must be cut of from access from the Treasury’s systems until another New York-based judge can rule on the issue next week.
Engelmeyer’s ruling came after a group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general sued Trump over DOGE’s Treasury access, arguing the move put personal information at risk, exceeded Treasury’s legal authority and could lead to DOGE unconstitutionally blocking spending that’s already been approved by Congress (a court order in a separate lawsuit said only two DOGE staffers can have read-only access).
Feb. 7A group of states that sued Trump over last week’s sweeping federal grant freeze alleged in a filing they “continue to be denied access to federal funds” even though a judge put the freeze on hold, claiming “scattershot outages” have cut them off from accessing several Biden-era grant programs.
Feb. 7Judge Carl Nichols—, a Trump appointee, blocked a plan to put 2,200 U.S. Agency for International Development staff on paid leave as of Friday, part of Trump’s gambit to wind down the foreign aid agency, multiplenews outlets reported—a temporary reprieve following a lawsuit by a federal employees’ union calling Trump’s efforts to dismantle USAID without Congress’ permission “unconstitutional and illegal.”
Feb. 7The Justice Department agreed to not name the FBI agents involved in the Jan. 6 investigation before a judge rules on two lawsuits from FBI agents that argued the dissemination of the agents’ names could threaten their employment, reputation and wellbeing.
Feb. 7The University of California Student Association sued the Department of Education accusing Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency of illegally accessing “sensitive personal and financial information” of about 42 million federal student loan borrowers.
Feb. 6Boston-based Judge George O’Toole paused a Thursday deadline for over 2 million federal employees to accept a buyout offer—part of Trump and Musk’s cost-cutting push—as he considers whether to grant a request by federal workers’ unions who sued to block the buyouts, extending the deadline until Monday.
Feb. 6Judge John Coughenour in Seattle extended his pause on Trump’s day-one executive order rescinding birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented or temporary immigrants, in response to a lawsuit brought by Democratic-led states, writing, “The president cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via an executive order.”
Feb. 6D.C.-based Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said only two Musk-affiliated staffers can access the Treasury Department’s payment system on a “read only” basis, after workers’ unions sued the Treasury amid reports Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessed sensitive records. (One of the employees given access has reportedly since resigned over racist tweets.)
Feb. 5A second judge —Deborah L. Boardman of Maryland—blocked Trump’s policy rescinding birthright citizenship, in response to a lawsuit brought by nonprofits representing undocumented pregnant women.
Feb. 4Judge Royce C. Lamberth in D.C. paused Trump’s restrictions on transgender women being incarcerated in women’s prisons and federal prisons providing gender-affirming medical treatment, after multiple inmates sued to block the policy.
Feb. 3District Judge Loren L. Alikhan broadly blocked the Trump administration’s memo halting almost all federal assistance—even after the White House claimed it had been rescinded—while litigation brought by nonprofit groups that receive government funds moves forward.
Jan. 31The Trump administration’s memo pausing most federal assistance was partially blocked, as Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold funding from the Democratic-led states that sued to block the funding freeze.
Jan. 26O’Toole prohibited law enforcement from transferring an incarcerated transgender woman to a male prison facility—at least while litigation filed by the inmate moves forward—after Trump stripped transgender Americans of their legal protections, including being incarcerated at prisons aligned with their gender identities.
Jan. 23Coughenour paused Trump’s order rescinding birthright citizenship, the first major ruling against the second Trump administration.
Jan. 20The first lawsuit against Trump’s administration was filed minutes after he was sworn into office, as public interest law group National Security Counselors argued DOGE should be classified as a federal advisory board that has “fairly balanced” membership and follows public transparency rules.
Lawsuits have been filed against a number of other Trump administration directives in cases that haven’t resulted in any rulings yet, including pending cases on Trump’s immigration policies like asylum restrictions, raids on sanctuary cities, immigration officers entering houses of worship, and restricting grants to immigration-related groups. Multiple other transgender rights-focused cases are pending, including litigation against Trump’s transgender military ban and minors receiving gender-affirming care, as well as a lawsuit challenging Trump’s broader restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Other lawsuits that are still pending include litigation against the Justice Department targeting agents who worked on Jan. 6-related cases, Trump’s “Schedule F” that makes it easier to fire career civil servants, Trump’s firing of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne A. Wilcox, the Office of Personnel Management allegedly storing emails on an unsecured server and the government removing health data from federal websites.
Multiple lawsuits are also arguing Trump should not have been able to create Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” by renaming the U.S. Digital Service, while another challenge takes aim at DOGE accessing records at the Department of Labor.
None of the lawsuits against the second Trump administration have yet made it to the Supreme Court, though at least some inevitably will. The high stakes of the lawsuits brought against Trump policies, plus the fact that bringing multiple lawsuits against a single policy may result in conflicting rulings, makes it all but certain the high court will eventually weigh in on some of the legal challenges that are now making their way through the courts. It’s unclear how the 6-3 conservative court, stacked with three Trump appointees, will ultimately rule on any challenges, though legal experts have suggested some of the administration’s moves may be too much for even the conservative-leaning court to get behind. Georgetown Law School professor Stephen Vladeck wrote he was skeptical the Supreme Court would back the administration’s memo halting federal funding, for instance. He noted that while the court was willing to give Trump more power in its recent decision giving him some immunity from criminal charges, it would be “quite another” thing for them to give him “the right to refuse to spend any and all money Congress appropriates.”
Legal experts have also been highly skeptical of the legal justification the Trump administration has used to justify the order nullifying birthright citizenship, which claims the 14th Amendment which guarantees citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” has always exempted the children of undocumented immigrants or non citizens. Mark Krikorian, who runs the Center for Immigration Studies and supports ending birthright citizenship, acknowledged to NBC News in July Trump’s argument is “something that the Supreme Court may well decide against,” and legal experts have previously decried the legal theory behind Trump’s order as a “lunatic fringe argument,” with University of Massachusetts, Amherst, professor Rebecca Hamlin telling NPR in 2018 that any lawyer who believes it is “like a unicorn.”
Trump has already issued a number of major executive actions, and many have not yet been challenged in court, such as him pulling out of the World Health Organization, withholding federal funding from schools that allow transgender women in women’s sports, imposing tariffs on China, removing safeguards around artificial intelligence, and rescinding Biden-era climate change initiatives, including ordering federal agencies not to disburse some funding that was approved by Congress. Musk and DOGE have also undertaken a number of controversial moves that haven’t yet resulted in court action, including DOGE staffers accessing information for Medicare and Medicaid and reportedly using artificial intelligence to search through sensitive internal data for the Department of Education.
Trump has issued a slew of executive orders in the less than three weeks he’s been in the White House, issuing broad orders on issues such as climate change, transgender rights, DEI initiatives, education, immigration, the U.S. military, abortion, the federal death penalty and more. Musk, whom Trump appointed to lead DOGE and has become one of his top advisers, has also drawn widespread controversy as DOGE has burrowed into the federal government and gained access to government information while proposing widespread cuts to spending. With Republicans holding both the White House and control of Congress, the courts have become the primary way for Democrats to issue any sort of check on the Trump administration’s actions, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has pointed to litigation as a key pillar of Democrats’ response to the second Trump presidency. “We’ve seen a flood and an avalanche of outrageous executive actions that have been taken by the administration and by the current president, but that has also prompted a response of righteous litigation,” Jeffries told MSNBC when asked how Democrats would oppose Trump’s policies, saying the litigation strategy “will continue as we move forward.”
Trump has already issued a number of major executive actions, and many have not yet been challenged in court, such as him pulling out of the World Health Organization, withholding federal funding from schools that allow transgender women in women’s sports, imposing tariffs on China, removing safeguards around artificial intelligence, and rescinding Biden-era climate change initiatives, including ordering federal agencies not to disburse some funding that was approved by Congress. Musk and DOGE have also undertaken a number of controversial moves that haven’t yet resulted in court action, including DOGE staffers accessing information for Medicare and Medicaid and reportedly using artificial intelligence to search through sensitive internal data for the Department of Education.
Trump has issued a slew of executive orders in the less than three weeks he’s been in the White House, issuing broad orders on issues such as climate change, transgender rights, DEI initiatives, education, immigration, the U.S. military, abortion, the federal death penalty and more. Musk, whom Trump appointed to lead DOGE and has become one of his top advisers, has also drawn widespread controversy as DOGE has burrowed into the federal government and gained access to government information while proposing widespread cuts to spending. With Republicans holding both the White House and control of Congress, the courts have become the primary way for Democrats to issue any sort of check on the Trump administration’s actions, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has pointed to litigation as a key pillar of Democrats’ response to the second Trump presidency. “We’ve seen a flood and an avalanche of outrageous executive actions that have been taken by the administration and by the current president, but that has also prompted a response of righteous litigation,” Jeffries told MSNBC when asked how Democrats would oppose Trump’s policies, saying the litigation strategy “will continue as we move forward.”
