The American Prospect
•US Politics
US Politics
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Elon Musk's charges have forced their way into accessing the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service .
Silicon Valley expats in their early 20s are poring over the code, trying to reorient it into something that can withhold payments Musk deems illegal based on random Twitter posts.
Nathan Tankus , author of the Notes on the Crises blog, is the best person equipped to explain what is happening and why it's so utterly crucial.
Tankus : We’re not talking about fraudulent payments, but about improper payments.
Musk ’s people are using read-only access to the payment system to look at code, propose changes, and then push for those changes to be implemented.
They are nowhere close to the ability to block individual payments at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service level.
Musk bloviates a lot, and they are concurrently infiltrating the agencies.
Elon Musk is a co-founder of PayPal and has a longtime focus on payment.
He has had these weird fake deep thoughts about money that he’s said or tweeted out.
He is genuinely shocked by the concept of Treasury not stopping a payment.
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