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Coders this week exposed serious security issues with Elon Musk's official Department of Government Efficiency website and now Huffington Post reports that the website has published classified data.

According to the report, the DOGE website has posted "information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website," which the publication says is raising questions about just how much access to classified information Musk and his DOGE team have.

One Defense Intelligence Agency employee tells Huffington Post that revelations about the DOGE website posting staffing information about the National Reconnaissance Office is setting off a scramble among agencies to determine if their offices have been compromised.

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An aide to a senator who works closely on intelligence-related matters says that while there is some debate over whether the NRO's staffing information should even be classified, the fact that DOGE is sharing it "is absolutely a problem under the current intelligence standards," especially given that DOGE is staffed by young Musk acolytes who have not gone through the security clearance process.

"These 25-year-old programmers, I don’t think they have enough experience to know what they don’t know,” said the aide. “Really, the question is: Where did this get this information and what are they doing with it?”

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) expressed concern that Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is walking his party into a Republican trap.

The New York Times reported on Friday that Democrats haven't been willing to shut down the government over budget negotiations in past years — but some are now demanding that change.

Deficit hawks in the GOP are unwilling to support any budget measure that raises the debt ceiling and doesn't drastically cut spending. This puts leaders like Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in a difficult position because they can't afford to lose votes — and means they'll have to turn to Democrats for help passing the budget, raising the debt ceiling, and averting a government shutdown.

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Over the years, Democrats have been willing to offset those on the far right. Now, some want to stop playing ball, even if it leads to a government shutdown.

“If Elon Musk and DOGE has found all of this fraud, and waste, and abuse — hundreds of billions of dollars, as they claim — well, then, we can’t fund the government by C.R. anymore,” Moskowitz said in a floor speech this week. He was referencing the continuing resolution that has been used as a temporary measure to keep the budget funded. The upcoming deadline is March 14.

“The C.R. would re-fund all of that waste, fraud and abuse that DOGE has found,” Moskowitz continued. “Which means the only way to fund the government is to fund it by individual spending bills.”

Moskowitz spoke to the Times on Wednesday night and expressed his concern about a GOP trap, saying that he hopes "party leaders like Mr. Schumer [doesn't] lead them into it."

“They want us to constantly defend the status quo and are setting us up to do that,” he said of his GOP colleagues. “We don’t want to close the government, but if the speaker of the House doesn’t start moving individual spending bills, the other choice is to go fund all the fraud and abuse they claim to have found.”

Sens. Andy Kim and Cory Booker, both New Jersey Democrats, also seem willing to let the shutdown move forward, despite Schumer's promise that he won't allow that to happen, the report said.

Kim told "Meet the Press" last Sunday, “I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we’re seeing when it comes to this administration’s actions. For us to able to support government funding in that way, only for them to turn around to dismantle the government, that is not something that can be allowed.”

Republicans currently hold control of the House, Senate and the White House. President Donald Trump said that the election gave them a "massive" mandate.

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Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership “has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with one hour to decide who will dismiss” the indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams “or else all will be fired,” NBC legal analyst Barb McQuade reported Friday.

The move comes after Danielle Sassoon — who was named acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York last month — on Thursday resigned from her position after refusing an order from acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to dismiss the Adams indictment.

As Reuters reports, five senior Justice Department officials followed suit, resigning "rather than comply with an order to dismiss corruption charges" against Adams.

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According to the DOJ website, the Public Integrity Section (PIN) “oversees the investigation and prosecution of all federal crimes affecting government integrity, including bribery of public officials, election crimes, and other related offenses.”

In her post detailing the hour deadline, McQuade, a former US attorney, sent the PIN lawyers “strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda.”

Read more about Sassoon's resignation here.

MAGA activists Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer blasted Elon Musk and President Donald Trump for distracting from the budget deficit and national debt by focusing on internet memes instead.

As the House Budget Committee was marking up a budget likely to have few cuts in the next year, Bannon suggested Republicans were more interested in slashing taxes for the rich.

"So somebody's got to explain to me where these real cuts are," Bannon said on his Thursday War Room broadcast. "The tax cut for the Social Security has to be in there, has to be in there for the middle class and working class. And to hell with the big donors, to hell with the top 1%. That three, the four trillion dollar tax cut, that trillion dollars at the top."

"I think it's really great that Elon Musk is using his celebrity and his position," Loomer opined. "It's hard to really deny that he's not a co-president when he's giving these press conferences in the White House with his son next to President Trump in a very domineering fashion."

"But I will say that we need to see more action, as you just said, from these lawmakers to make more substantial cuts instead of just, you know, pushing out these soundbites on Fox News," she continued. "It's becoming very meme-like in my, in my opinion."

Loomer argued that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) used Musk and Trump as a "human shield."

"He likes to bro it up with Elon Musk, and he likes to bro it up with Donald Trump," she said. "Elon Musk himself and DOGE as an entity has become such a lightning rod. Given the fact that it's Elon and several unvetted, many would say, teenagers who are now occupying space in White House facilities with clearances to review highly sensitive information, the focus has really been on Elon Musk and kind of the hysteria around DOGE itself."

"And so you see the media focusing on things like, oh, Elon Musk Just changed his name to Harry Bōlz. Oh, one of the guys on DOGE goes by the name Big Balls. Oh, he made racist comments about Indians, and so people are getting very caught up in the memes that are being pushed out from DOGE," a frustrated Loomer complained.

"People are getting distracted by this meme-like energy that is not just emitting from the Oval Office in these press conferences with President Trump and Elon, but also in the way that Elon and these lawmakers are now interacting."

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"Because of his very large financial contribution to Republicans, to President Trump, he has a hold over them, and so they're doing his bidding, and they are in return pushing out the memes and making it more of a meme narrative."

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The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Trump administration's Health and Human Services Secretary with a vote of 52 to 48.

Kennedy will oversee about 80,000 employees with agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was the sole Republican to vote against Kennedy. McConnell, who had polio as a child, spoke out against Kennedy's efforts to "undermine" the polio vaccine.

"RFK Jr has long expressed views that conflict with scientific evidence, especially on vaccines, and his nomination has provoked opposition from public health experts," the BBC reported. "But he has also adopted positions with popular support, scrutinizing the use of food additives and urging that the power of big pharma be curbed."

There are some alarming parallels between Elon Musk's consolidation of power in the United States and the rise of one of history's most infamous dictators, a writer claimed Thursday.

The tech mogul spent at least $277 million on Donald Trump's re-election — and billions more to turn Twitter into his personal propaganda machine — and in return seems to be running the U.S. government for an elderly president who has ceded broad authority to his billionaire benefactor, wrote The American Prospect's managing editor Ryan Cooper.

"An unelected individual, whose sole qualification for office is spending about $44.2 billion on the last election — who is in fact ineligible to run for president — is making wildly illegal budget, staffing, and policy decisions throughout the government, and stacking federal agencies with his cronies who are all doing Watergate-grade crimes about 300 times per day," Cooper wrote.

"Most recently, they straight up stole $80 million in duly disbursed FEMA funds right out of New York City’s bank accounts."

The closest parallel to the powers that Musk has accumulated might be Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his rise in the 1920s, Cooper argued.

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"Now, this is not to say that the policy program of Soviet Communism is identical to DOGE," Cooper wrote. "The similarity is in the specific mechanics of how Stalin came to power. During the Russian Revolution and following civil war, Lenin had been the undisputed leader of the Russian communists, while Stalin played a more modest role. But in 1922, Lenin suffered a severe stroke, forcing him to largely withdraw from politics. After several more strokes, he died in 1924."

Stalin won the ensuing power struggle by placing loyalists throughout the Communist Party and the growing Soviet bureaucracy, and he sidelined and eventually murdered his greatest rival, Leon Trotsky. He violently purged other enemies during the Great Terror.

"The Soviet government and the Red Army were permanently watched by party officials — political commissars — to ensure loyalty to the party and Stalin, backed by the threat of deportation, torture, or murder by the [secret police force] NKVD," Cooper wrote.

"The Soviet Union thereby developed a political system in which the formal constitution, drawn up in 1936, was almost entirely inoperative. The official post of the head of government, the premiership, was largely ornamental; real power was held by the Communist Party, in particular its general secretary, who sat as dictator over the whole country, until the USSR collapsed in 1991."

That's largely the same playbook Musk is using, whether or not that's intentional, to grab power from the newly inaugurated president, Cooper wrote.

"The leader of the Republican Party and nominal president, Donald Trump, is 78 years old and plainly in steep mental decline," Cooper wrote. "That much is demonstrated by his signing this order granting Musk so much power in the first place (also by his increasingly incoherent speech patterns). Any developing authoritarian regime with a power-sharing agreement almost invariably ends with the aspiring autocrats turning on each other, in which only one person can be triumphant. It’s not only Russian history that demonstrates that. Trump may well be putting his power or even personal safety in danger."

Musk is shoring up command over key government agencies by setting up a parallel government with the Department of Government Efficiency, and if and when Trump becomes incapacitated or dies, Cooper wrote, the tech mogul will have a major advantage in the battle to replace him.

"Should Musk succeed, DOGE could become the most important political institution in America," Cooper wrote. "How Americans live — what they can say, what they can read, where they can go, what they can eat and drink, what kind of medicines they can take, and on and on — may well be determined by one visibly unhinged ultra-billionaire and his crew of online neo-Nazis. That at least is their clear intention."

The biggest difference between Stalin's rise and Musk's ascension is the speed at which they gathered power, Cooper wrote, arguing that Stalin was "clever and patient" in consolidating his regime, while Musk is moving quickly to put key institutions under his control – but he critically lacks DOGE commissars at all levels of the military.

"On his current path, sooner or later Musk will have to order American troops to fire on their fellow citizens for attempting to exercise their constitutional rights, and he will need loyalists down to the unit level to force them to do it, not just a few pet generals," Cooper wrote. "I suspect this reflects the different historical contexts of the two men. Stalin had to help fight and win a revolutionary war, and then wage a pitched political battle against several formidable adversaries at once. That made him brutal yet cautious. Musk, by contrast, discovered over time that American politics and society were so profoundly rotten that he could get away with outrageous regulatory violations at Tesla and SpaceX, and gradually concluded he could do literally anything he wanted."

That speed and hubris could prove to be Musk's undoing, Cooper wrote, hopefully.

"The marginal Trump voter that put him over the line in 2024 was plainly not voting for Elon Musk to become God-Emperor for Life, much less for him to tear great chunks out of federal agencies that underpin the basic functioning of American life, even if those swing voters take them entirely for granted," Cooper wrote. "It’s the task of everyone who believes in democracy to make Musk’s story of hubris end in the traditional way that the Greek playwrights dramatized so well."