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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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