"Arrest Elon Musk" | Trump's DOGE Breaking Laws??!?!

a lot of people are freaking out inside

the government about what Elon Musk is

up to and it has now risen to the level

of secret messages audio recordings and

interviews with Hill reporters so

Capitol Hill reporters who are covering

these interviews

privately alleging that Elon Musk is

committing crimes inside of the federal

government and suggesting he could end

up getting

arrested there's a professor at

Georgetown that is going as far as

saying there's so much illegal stuff

going on that Elon appears to be playing

the quantity game assuming the system

can't react to all of the legality at

once because what he is doing is so

quote wildly

illegal in this video we've got to break

down what's going on here because musk

says it's actually the treasury

officials that are breaking the law

every hour of every day by approving

payments that are fraudulent or don't

match the funding laws passed by

Congress other people argue no these are

funds that are passed by Congress and

you got to get your nose out of it this

is intense and there are a whole host of

laws and rules and acts that we got to

talk about to understand what Elon Musk

is up against here and once we go

through that I'll give you my opinion on

how this could all play out so first

it's worth knowing that there's a

Supreme Court case called train versus

city of New York and in this case Nixon

president Nixon allocated less money to

the Environmental Protection Agency than

Congress had actually

designated this ended up leaving the

city of New York filing a class action

in conjunction with other cities and the

Supreme Court ultimately ruled in this

case in favor of the cities that they

deserved the money they were allocated

by Congress and from then on and from

this 1970s case on we ended up getting a

precedent where

when Congress allocates money you can't

provide a deficiency in allocation you

must provide it mind you this was a 1975

case so it's been precedent for a while

a lot of people believe that this case

is going to lead the Supreme Court to

ultimately get involved and suggest that

no Elon you can't just go around cutting

spending at the treasury or from any

other department now Donald Trump's team

and Elon Musk have already sort of

crafted a work around to this they don't

argue that they're withholding any money

they're just quote unquote temporarily

suspending payments while they review

them to make sure that they're not

fraudulent and in doing so they're

trying to skirt this

1975 law however there are also federal

spending laws such as the 1974 budget

act which says the president himself

cannot withhold or defer appropriated

funds which has some people arguing that

there could actually be violations of

the 1974 budget act and because this is

a law a crime could potentially be

enforced now I don't actually think

we're going to have a Department of

Justice that's going to file a criminal

case against Donald Trump I mean I think

that's been tried a few times before and

given that Donald Trump is now president

and technically immune it ain't going to

be Trump people are coming after him

this is why again people see Elon Musk

as Donald Trump's Demetri medin

in case you don't remember that

reference Dimitri madv was the appointed

puppet I should say appointed he was

elected okay he was the elected puppet

to placehold Vladimir Putin while

Vladimir Putin termed out well then of

course after Dimitri Medvedev had his

term all the people of Mother Russia got

to vote for Vladimir Putin again and he

came back and this is essentially where

people come up with this reference of oh

okay so Demitri was just Putin's puppet

and Putin was there in the background

the whole time yeah probably but now

people are trying to say this is what's

actually happening with musk that musk

is potentially the person without

immunity who could be exposed to all of

these laws because he's working within

the government now remember Doge was

created to be outside of the government

so some people are saying okay well he's

outside the government but then people

come and say well if he's outside the

government then how come he is inside

the treasury Department and going

through government documents now this is

where the White House has recently said

well he's actually an unpaid special

employee which is usually what happens

with advisors but the question is is

Elon Musk directing the cancellation of

funding especially since he's arguing

that he's throwing usaid into the meat

ER or wanting to help shut down other

agencies at his direction is his control

or is it Trump anyway this opens up the

can of worms and it doesn't so much

matter what we think it matters what

anybody who wants to file a lawsuit

thinks see any agency or state

government or local government that ends

up getting their funding withheld could

end up filing a lawsuit against Elon

Musk and Doge and the Trump

Administration and they probably will in

fact the CIA director just offered a

federal buyout to all CIA workers now

this is the CIA director so he's a trump

appointee but a lot of folks are

wondering wait a minute wait a minute

wait a minute what

happens if too many people take these

buyout offers and we just don't have

enough security officials anymore you

know this is where other people respond

and say it's okay so far only 20% uh

have taken uh Trump Federal buyout offer

sorry 20% 20,000 workers have taken the

buyout offer which is actually uh closer

to 1% rather than the number Donald

Trump was hoping for which would have

been like 5 to 10% but

anyway second law that could potentially

be broken is the anti-deficiency act and

Appropriations Clause now this is very

similar to the budget act the budget act

says you can't withhold or defer

Appropriations

an anti-deficiency act is another form

that doesn't so much apply to the

president but it basically prohibits

agencies from from refusing to spend

what Congress has allocated so if

Congress says spend the money on this

and you're an agency or an official who

refuses to do that you could actually be

in violation of law number two the

anti-deficiency act in Appropriations

Clause now this given that Elon musk is

now a government employee who's

unemployed could potentially put him

into the place of being subject to this

law number two some people said now then

there's also potentially violating the

law of agencies for example if you

simply say hey we're just going to

defund the Department of Education

through Doge well you can't do that and

the Department of Education was

established by a statute and it must be

closed via a statute in order to be

closed I'm not here to shill for the

government and say this is exactly what

should or shouldn't happen I'm just

breaking down what people are saying

about the situation because it's crazy

out there okay like if you like this

sort of breakdown at summary just

remember no pitch in this video at all

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so something to know about the

Department of Education is Ronald Reagan

actually tried to get rid of the

Department of Education in 1980 and he

also failed he tried getting rid of it

he tried defunding it but because of

some of the laws that exist some of

those that we're talking about here he

failed and a lot of folks think that

Donald Trump is circling to do the same

thing but may end up in the same realm

of failure another thing to consider is

something called the separation of

powers Clause this is basically a way of

saying look Congress controls the purse

strings and you can't impede congress's

job instead you might end up getting

Court action and injunctions that could

end up limiting the power of Doge or

just shutting it down entirely it's

actually earlier today that I speculated

one of the reasons Elon Musk is acting

like a strike force and moving so

quickly it's frankly because I think he

realizes he might end up getting shut

down and if he gets shut down then it's

kind of like oh okay well I guess we

were only able to do what we were able

to do now there's also another Clause

called the appointments clause and an

unaccountable power issue see musk is

not a senate confirmed official he you

know was supposed to work outside of the

federal government now he's a special

government employee but he's acting like

somebody who would ordinarily go through

a senate confirmation you know I know a

lot of people don't like the wapo but

it's kind of interesting because if you

jump on over to see what wapo says this

is the Jeff Stein story I actually

really respect the Jeff Stein guy I

don't know these other these writers but

Jeff Stein he's he's a good person and

generally provides interesting info but

if you look at this story this story is

US government officials privately warned

musk's Blitz appears illegal now they

don't actually detail all these laws

that we're talking about but they do

reference that uh Scott bessent of the

Treasury Department says don't worry

doge is only going to have read only

access however people are very concerned

that a lot of the Doge individuals are

using private email addresses or they're

not not disclosing who they are on calls

now there are arguments like lawyers for

Elon and and Doge that say well you know

we don't want to dox people because

we've already seen that and then these

Doge employees get threatened and that's

bad but on the flip side using a private

email server you got some people going

bro this sounds a whole lot like Hillary

Clinton except it's on steroids where

you know people were mad about her using

a private email server all right

whatever so the these are all just the

arguments that were hearing the big

picture constitutional worry is that

there is some kind of Shadow executive

branch existing and operating and

exercising power outside the channels of

the Constitution and the statutes that

Congress has authorized says Blake

Emerson a professor of constitutional

law at UCLA School of Law hey I actually

went to UCLA uh but you know I've only

listed a few of these so far okay

there's another one there's faka this

has actually hit Trump up before against

veterans in 2018 but fakka faka whatever

you want to call Federal advisory

committee this has everything to do with

as soon as you're an adviser you have to

have transparency board meetings there

are oversight risks you have to put

reports together you might have to

testify in front of Congress you could

get your functions limited working in

secret could violate the F fakka

whatever act you want to call it now why

does that matter because again we don't

think the justice department is going to

sue because the justice department is

going to be directed by Trump at least

for the time being but you could

certainly get injunctions from courts

but what you also have to pay attention

to is that individual cities or people

who get fired or unions uh federal

worker unions or whatever they could all

file class action lawsuits against Elon

as a

person so that's because as technically

a non-paid employee SL nonemployee it's

unclear if the government protections

for

employees that protect them from

lawsuits would be strong enough to

protect Elon and if he even qualifies as

an unpaid person for that sort of

immunity from being sued if he's not

then a lot of people think he could be

sued straight up by civilians or

employees who are terminated see there's

actually this interesting thing that I

didn't know EX isted but apparently if

you want to lay off a bunch of people in

the government you actually have to go

through what's called a Workforce

reshaping operations handbook I kid you

not this is just how bureaucracy works

okay again I'm not here Shilling for the

government just here to share

perspectives and insights and I thought

this was crazy so you want to lay off

some people you can't just fire them you

have to follow the rules in this

117 page handbook on how to lay people

off deciding whether to implement a

reduction in force the purpose of the

reshaping the timing are agency personal

records current and available do you

have the budget available uh all

promotions only promotions this has to

do with like freezes and

reimbursements separate temporary

employees voluntary reduction of hours

an agency may consider a policy that

allows employees to voluntarily reduce

their scheduled workouts and I think

that's why they're doing this voluntary

early retirement allows for permanent

employees to retire early if their

organizations are undergoing a reduction

in Workforce but I mean some people

argue that in this you actually have to

give reasons for the reduction in

Workforce uh or Beyond just like you

know we want to save money people have

to have go through some form of federal

due process so is somebody going to get

furload are they getting demoted is

there a lack of work could you argue

that there's a shortage of funds it's

hard to argue that if Congress has

already uh provided the funds right uh

so there's a long booklet here the point

of this again isn't to say like oh yeah

you know Doge isn't following this I

don't know the point of this is simply

to say it when there's 119 page handbook

you could pretty much guarantee that

somebody is going to file a lawsuit and

some kind of federal worker uh Mass like

class action arguing that this layoff

was unfair and unjust and that they

should have been paid more or that they

should have never been let go especially

if they can't go find another job see

that's actually a big risk if you can't

find another job then your damages may

actually grow even more uh which again

you know that that creates problems for

anybody at the other end of that Elon in

this case uh 19 74 Privacy Act breaches

it's another one uh this is probably a

clear-cut one if somebody isn't cleared

with the proper credentials I mean maybe

they are but they shouldn't have the

access to the banking information of

millions of retirees taxpayers

beneficiaries of government payments

Social Security payments whatever there

are confidentiality risks there are

cyber security risks there are hippo

risks there there are a lot of risks

here you could also have uh uh you know

a potential that again not only other

states or local government Sue but also

schools or departments or companies that

were expecting payment through a

contract with the government and all of

a sudden that contract got canned

because you know elon's like yeah no

we're just not going to pay this anymore

but they basically built their supply

chain for that or whatever it is who

knows I think they're going to be an

insane insane amount of lawsuits here

and again not chilling for the gov but

the question now is could there potent

potentially

be so many uh or a set of laws that are

so heavily broken that Elon Musk could

go to jail well a lot of people think

the answer to that is no but there are

some people who think the answer to that

is yes my guess is if that would ever

happen I think Elon spent enough money

to get the Glorious pardon from Donald

Trump so do I actually think that Elon

Musk would end up in jail no of course

not but do I think that the days of Doge

could become numbered because of Court

actions and injunctions and and you know

questions about

constitutionality absolutely and that I

think is exactly why Elon Musk because

he knows this I don't think he's stupid

some people say he's like AOC says he is

uh you know I think he knows this and

that's exactly why he's got people

sleeping on the floors in the sort of

Doge office because he knows Tick Tock

the clock is ticking so this is why but

if you want to see more on this I I

really encourage you check out that wppo

piece over here uh you might not like

wapo that's okay uh there are plenty of

other articles or or news organizations

that are covering this but this

illegality push I mean this was just

posted a little bit ago here along with

the CIA announcement but look at this

one here's another one Elon Musk is a

special government employee what is that

mean uh okay special government employee

this looks like it was just posted

special government employees anyone who

works or is expected to work for the

government for 130 days or less than a

365 period with or without compensation

it's not clear how long he's going to

work if he'll pass that 130 this means

musk is not a volunteer but is

considered less than full-time it also

means he is exempt from some of the

rules including around Financial

disclosures and conflicts of interest

rules that apply to full-time workers

Democratic lawmakers have expressed

concerns about a mosque well of course

they have and so are people getting

their budgets cuts budgets cut Ela musk

is a once in a generation business Le

leader this is the press secretary said

it you know how old that press secretary

is she's 27 I was blown away when I saw

that like what she's 27 my gosh she

speaks well for 27 that's great yeah I

mean I'm sure you've seen her by now but

um I mean here's here just pictures of

her in case you needed a reminder of who

she is or what she looks like but I

didn't know she was just 27 uh she's got

a kid too but anyway um I mean not that

that makes any difference I got kids too

so uh what rules do special government

employees have to follow sges are

subject to most rules although in a less

restrictive way uh for example we've got

uh SG uh let's see for example paid at

above not required to file public

disclosure rules uh this is especially

relevant because of conflict of Interest

with Tesla and SpaceX you know you you

now hear that some countries are trying

to cancel SpaceX

contracts uh because of must

involvement with

um with Donald Trump I guess it's not

necessarily in this example a country

it's Ontario which is the provincial

government of one of the uh provinces of

Canada uh the most populous Province

terminating contract with starlink to

deliver highspeed internet to remote

parts of Ontario as retribution for the

threat of terorist well I mean the

Tariff thing mostly got solved now but

honestly I think that kind of sucks for

them because starling's pretty

good uh but uh but I know there's a lot

of frustration in Canada I get that

Canadians do not want to be

Americans uh okay so as far as I'm aware

I mean maybe there are some Canadians

out there who disagree and they want to

be American but anyway uh some people

say he's playing with fire White House

didn't immediately respond blah blah

blah disclosure

speculation uh yeah subject to

controversy before arguing they could

blur the lines between private and

public sectors to help them uh

circumvent the rules so you have to be

careful anytime you blur the rules like

that you become subject to the uh

sometimes the worst of both like you

think it's the best of both but it often

can be the worst of both because now you

have to now you have the potential

government liability but then you also

have the potential civil liability

without the government protection you

know I I I would find that very

interesting uh let's let's let's see if

we can find some research on that uh

would a special government employee be

protected from lawsuits like a normal

government employee I'm going to guess

it just sort of depends uh some ah yeah

exactly okay that's that's what people

claim here at least that's what I'm

seeing right here so only some might

apply uh

so s uh sges may not be covered from uh

tort claims or fraud claims disclosure

claims uh they could get sued for uh

their their you know official duties but

if they don't actually have official

duties and they're just walking around

as a private employee private employee

if you will then then they might

actually be able to get sued uh so

generally regular employees are immune

like we talked about earlier however

sges may not be especially if you end up

violating some of the conflict of

interest rules that usually apply that's

interesting yeah yeah so this is um this

crazy I mean I it's very entertaining

I'll tell you I'll keep you updated with

this news so if you find it interesting

you know keep keep subscribing but look

at this Doge um took a look take a look

here Doge 12 Consulting contract

terminations uh in GSA and Department of

Education total Savings of $30 million

including 23 million work order for

digital modern modernization program

management office support 12 under

utilized lease cancellations annual

Savings of 3 million so like all of

those Consulting contracts they're all

probably going to

sue you know 30 million here 30 million

there soon one trillion savings

honestly also true good point let's like

that what does this even mean digital

modernization program management that's

a lot of money to pay for a PowerPoint

on how to use a

PowerPoint bunch of salty workers yeah

uh salty government workers I mean yeah

it's entirely possible

it's I'll keep you updated with this so

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