Jun 26, 2025

Not Social Security But Still Interesting

      From NPR:

A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

"I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers. …

"Elon [Musk] was pretty clear about how he wanted DOGE to be maximally transparent," Lavingia said. "That's something he said a lot in private. And publicly. And so I thought, OK, cool, I'll take him at his word. I will be transparent."

Shortly after the interview was published online, Lavingia got an email. Just 55 days into his work at DOGE, his access had been revoked.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Trusting Musk was a mistake. By the way, where is Musk these days? Is he hiding in a bunker with
Khamenei?

Anonymous said...

SSA has hired Edward “big balls” (formerly Doge) as a permanent government ‘employee - GS15

Anonymous said...

Fake News Leland!

Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old high-profile operative for the Department of Government Efficiency, resigned yesterday morning, according to a White House.

Anonymous said...

Old news. "Big Balls" resigned from government a few days ago.

Anonymous said...

Source? He just resigned yesterday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5367819-doge-aide-big-balls-resigns/

Anonymous said...

How? He doesn’t even meet the minimum education requirements for a GS-15 position.