Comment by cpursley
19 hours ago
In what way (other than people not liking it)? And I'm serious, what is illegal about it from a law standpoint. Educate me.
19 hours ago
In what way (other than people not liking it)? And I'm serious, what is illegal about it from a law standpoint. Educate me.
They're stopping congressionally mandated (i.e. legislation) payments to services, violating the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
That doesn't sound like it would hold up in court. Which services?
I'm not sure if you've been reading the news at all, but I would guess no? The most talked about has been USAID -- namely because they started with it, which is odd because it's one of the smallest government programs and Musk promised to cut $2 trillion -- wait, sorry $1 trillion -- wait, no, $150 Billion by 2026 -- wait, the actual amount is likely much smaller [1].
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/doge-contract...
Whistleblowers are claiming it's sedition: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...
> The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure.
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Without making any statement on whether I believe DOGE is being seditious, it's not hard to interpret their underlying intent as being wholly compatible with the definition you pasted. DOGE intends to hurt the government in ways that cause people to trust it less, with the goal of eliminating large parts of the government.
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in the way they commit crimes