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be a couple of these in this series. I think next we're going to talk about Steven Miller, who is the Deputy chief of Staff for Policy at the White House. But today I think it's really really important for us to dive into the role that Elon Musk is playing in the federal government, the fact that it is very much outside, perhaps illegal, and he is waiting in the water, maybe drowning in the water, with conflicts of interest. So we're going to get into that, I think first and

foremost what I really want to talk about. Actually, before I get into anything, let me offer this disclaimer, because what we know about this White House and the Trump administration is they are highly litigious. So to cover my home behind iHeart and reason choice media, let me say this. I am acknowledging that they are very litigious. That what I'm going to talk about today is going to infuriate

some associated with the federal government. Whether they are contractors, Elon Musk acolytes, Trump acolytes, fans, MAGA protesters, or anything else, the fact that remains that they are litigious. So I want you to ensure I want to ensure that you know the sources. I will cite the sources as much as I can. I will do my best to say what is alleged. I will let you know what is a theory and what is my inner holy ghost, the black woman's discernment, and let you know that it is just.

In fact, they created an agency, because you know, Republicans are apparently about big government these days, they added a new agency. That agency is called the Department of Government Efficiency, because the best way to make government more efficient is to add another agency. I'm just kidding if you can't tell. So the other thing that I think we should talk about is who Donald Trump and Elon were, where their relationship originated, and how we got to this very treacherous place.

So on July thirteenth, twenty twenty four, Elon Musk went to the platform that he purchased formally known as Twitter to endorse Donald Trump. Since then, the evil brother to True Social has seemingly suppressed the content of its most progressive users, and has amplified content that is relate to, related to and bolsters the once banned President Donald Trump. So let's talk briefly about who Elon Musk is. So

he is a South African born entrepreneur. He is believed to be the richest man in the world, with a reported net worth of more than four hundred and ten billion dollars. One hundred and fifty billion of that four hundred and ten billion has been garnered since the twenty twenty four election. You heard me right, So he got a whole additional one hundred and fifty billion dollars since the election. I think that is worth noting. Next, this

former h one B visa holder. As I said, he is the South African born richest man in the world. Elon Musk got rich from building companies like PayPal and then going on to invest in companies like Tesla, which most of us know him from.

the wall match. I don't know, but I just think it's worth noting. So they're fighting, there's trouble in paradise. He said that he was going to see to it by inauguration that Elon Musk did not have the unfettered access that surprise he has. So Steve Bannon, you fail, Try again, for try again now. I want to just get into the frail a little bit around what's happening in South Africa. You would will have just noted that most recently, Donald Trump said that he was going to

cut off all funding the South Africa. I keep emphasizing the South African born Elon Musk for a reason.

he's talking about funding the South Africa. And South Africa only receives foreign aid from US to the tune of four hundred million dollars annually and it's mostly for health programs, primarily focused around HIV AID support. So it's fascinating that he's tied this land expropriation law that is designed to give people back the land that they once had and

he's saying, we're not going to do this. Now what you should also know and then I'm gonna get back to America, roll with me to South Africa a little bit longer. Elon Mus's hometown homeland home country. Land ownership has been a very contentious issue in South Africa. This is, according to BBC, for more than a century. In nineteen thirteen, British colonies authorized British colonial authorities pass legislation that restricted

the property rights of the country's black majority. Again, the law that was just passed is designed to give back black folks the land that they once had. The Native's Land Act left the vast majority of the land under the control of the white minority and set the foundation for the forced removal of black people to poor homelands, homelands and townships. And this is more than three decades ago,

until the end of apartheid. Now, the other thing that I think is worth noting is that Elon mu Us had something to say and it sounded very similar to what Donald Trump said around returning the land.

two percent of individually owned farms and agricultural holdings. Mixed race citizens also known as coloreds in South Africa owned fifteen percent, Indians owned five percent, In Africans owned four percent. Now, what you need to know is, according to the twenty twenty two census in South Africa, white folks made up seven point three percent of the population, but again owned

seventy two percent of the farms and agricultural lands. So when Elon Musk says, why do you guys have openly racist ownership laws, he's not looking at the data and he's not looking at the impact, not even the intention of the law. We talked several times now about what the intention of that law is. But Elon Musk is focusing on the fact that white South Africans like him are going to perhaps get land snatched, that they're not

even occupying. By the way, it is unoccupied land, unclaimed land that they are returning back to black citizens.

So he has Donald Trump in the fray around the expropriation law, but really he wants to upset what's going on in South Africa because he didn't get a contract which brings us to the United States. So what we also know is that Elon Musk has marched his white man privilege into the White House, into the White House complex at that with office space in his role as the Department of Government Efficiency lead, and Donald Trump has

named him a special government employee. There is a big well, actually, there are several big issues with Elon Musk being named a special government employee, especially because in some ways it appears so again this is a theory, it appears that Donald Trump and his administration don't understand that conflict of interest and ethics still apply to special government employees. So I want to get into that a little bit because I think it's important to understand. One, Elon must South

African descent, since they can't stand immigrant so much. It depends apparently white immigrants are in the clear, but he's a South African immigrant who now has unfettered access to the federal government. Anybody that has created an obstacle for him economically he's going after we saw him do that most recently with the South African president, and he's gotten Donald Trump in the frey there.

of friends. Okay, So remember that eighteen USC. Two eight A says it prohibits you from participating personally and substantially in any particular matter that affects your finance interests as well as the financial interests of your spouse, minor child, general partner, an organization in which you serve as an officer, director, trustee, general partner, or employee, or an organization with which you are negotiating or with which you have an arrangement for

perspective employment. So we are going to shortly get into the many places where Elon Musk's companies have government contracts and why it is a problem that he accessed all of the payment systems for the Department of Treasury, along with several others. So I don't know if Donald Trump and Elon Musk will get rid of FDIC. Congress can

introduce legislation to stop them. And I'm just stopping here because there are more questions that are coming in and I think that what is most important is for the Democratic minority in the Senate and the House to find who their potential are allies are on the other side of the out and the Senate, in the House that are in districts where their majorities are thin. Maybe they

were formerly blue districts. Maybe they are districts where they're Republicans, but they're not really Trumpers like that, and so they don't want to give him unfettered access to destroying the government. Those are the folks who they should be looking to ally up with, to align with, to determine what the steps forward could be to introduce legislation to stop some of what's happening. The majority is razor thin in the House, and it's razor thin in the Senate. They definitely don't

have anywhere near sixty votes. So there are a number of things that can and should be done. I'm assuming that on these retreats and conferences that are currently being held that they're talking about these things.

to the Department of Government efficiency. That's for a minute, to stop here at what happened with Treasury. So there are questions coming in about the Treasury department. What's going on, How does it impact us? The Department of Treasury literally is the entity that prints our money. It is literally the entity that is charged with holding banks accountable to ensure that our money is protected. Somebody asked about FDIC. The Department of Treasury is responsible for more than one

billion payments per year, totaling five trillion dollars. Elon Musk has said to let him into the Department of Treasury because he could trim more than a trillion dollars from the federal deficit. The payments that the Department of Treasury oversees include all types of sensitive information, including bank accounts and social Security numbers, as well as all of those payments, so it is very, very important that we understand what they have access to at this point. There are several

laws that Elon Musk's team could be violating. We went through some of those relative to a special government employee and their conflicts of interests, their financial disclosure requirements when they're supposed to wall themselves completely off. We know that he is an officer of a company that has federal government contracts, a founder of a company that has federal government contracts, and he is now in there tinkering with his competition's payments. It's just a bridge too far from me.

same paragraph. It is important for you to understand that Elon Musk is not doing anything, as Donald Trump said himself in a press conference, that hasn't already been authorized. Donald Trump made not necessarily be the one who authorized it or one who authorized it. But let me tell you who is the authors of Project twenty twenty five. The Heritage Foundation, the same Heritage Foundation that gave Ronald Reagan his blueprint, the same Heritage Foundation that gave George

hw and George W. Bush their blueprint. There's nothing new under the sun, y'all. They have just renamed the thing and they've gotten a little more Rogan reckless. The reason you see Republican senators and members of the House on TV saying tough, it's gonna be alright, y'all, just don't want to trim the fat because you like bureaucracy.

that it doesn't necessarily have to be empowerment. They are just reviewing, and that review could be a long time, which means that they're halting payments. All of that is problematic, and it is by design in Project twenty twenty five. So Office of Personnel Management, which is also referenced several times over again in Project twenty twenty five. What you should know is that Musk associates, musk acolytes, including past and present employees of his, have taken over OPM, which

is the Office of Personal Management. Literally, they have put in sofa beds near the old director's office. They are demonstrating to them that you can't even get up here to the fifth floor if you don't have a security clearance. And we don't approve you. And while they're doing all of that, they are locking out senior officials at OPM. According to routers from Key Systems, Elon's team has gotten

into a system called the Enterprise Human Resources Integration. That system contains highly personal information for government personnel across agency, across department. It includes information like your birth dates, social security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades, length of service of government workers, and any disciplinary action. All of that is in OPM files. That includes staffing information for members

of Congress. So again, when you think about the retribute of nature of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, this is a way to punish their enemies, going into treasury to halt payments, going into the OPM files to disclose data and information that doesn't belong to them. And moreover, there are certain things that the federal government has done to keep our information safe from safe from foreign entities. They are circumventing all of that, which also makes our information

vulnerable and susceptible to hacks by foreign government entities. I want to go briefly into GSA. GSA is responsible for every lease of federal office buildings and according to the AP.

If you have an SBA special classification, all of that information is subject to being shared now, so a lot of folks are asking what will people do to fight back. It is imperative that you reach out to your member of Congress and say you might be overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed. I don't know where we go from here, but what I do know is I elected you to fight, and here are the expectations I have of you and sharing them, sharing with them with their staff what you think they

should be doing. We are seeing that there are all types of lawsuits being filed by unions who work with federal government employees, by folks who are challenging thee the

Trump administration's birthright citizenship position. There are all types of lawsuits that are being filed around this Elon Musk having unfettered access to governmental government employee data, government contracts, et cetera, especially those of UH those employees and former employees of his who have not been fired file hire they should be fired hired by the Feds to have any access to this information, and how it makes us susceptible to attacks.

All of that is being challenged in the courts, but there are things that members of Congress can and should do. You can reach your member of Congress by calling to zero two two two four three one two one. That is the Capitol Hill Operator. They can transfer you to your uh, your member of Congress, to your senator, to to be connected with them and to share what you think should happen. All good ideas are all ideas right

now are good ideas. There are no bad ideas. We've got to talk about how to fight, how to protect what we know is ours. Now. This democracy is fragile, it is trash, it is frustrating. But I think that we've seen very quickly within the last couple of weeks that so much can change in a matter of moments, that while it hangs in the balance, that there's something

about that democracy that's worth protecting. So as we weighe through Elon Musk's conflicts of interest, as we get frustrated by the laws that are seemingly broken, some more apparent than others, and the physical proximity to the president that Elon Musk has, we know that he is still shooting himself in the proverbial foot. So, while the tariffs are right at Tesla's door, with Forbes reporting a dippinent stock.

It costs Elon Musk nearly twelve billion dollars to be closely associated with this president and to be supporting policies that may actually cause him economic harm. So this is a reminder to him that nobody's safe in a Trump universe. And even if you find yourself doing his bidding, ask Michael Cohen about how that goes. Ask Steve Bannon about how that goes. So President Elon Musk for now, but it'll be President Stephen Miller tomorrow and we'll talk about

that next week. Before I go, I'm gonna see if there are any other questions. It doesn't appear that there are any. I'm thirty minutes in. It's supposed to be a fifteen minute podcast, and so I just will say until next time.

challenging right now. And then there's a last question. The gentleman that blocked Elon from accessing the system then resigned. Has anyone talked to him? I believe you're talking about the gentleman from the Department of Treasury. I don't know if anybody's talked to him, and he may have resigned just for moral reasons. Was he paid off? I don't know,

but I will tell you who is paid off. A good number of federal government employees to the tune of twenty thousand, which makes up about one percent of the overall federal government staffing, took out. Took the payouts, which means that taking a payout, getting paid even through November of this year, you are no longer eligible for a federal pension. There. I'm sure we'll be a court battle

around that as well. Don't take the payout, hold your ground, stay in your ground, make sure that you fight until the end. Keep sharing this information. Congressoman Maxine waters put up on the Financial Services Committee page on the ranking member sides. Of course she's a ranking member. A whistleblower sheet that you can fill out form you can fill out. Please make sure you are sharing information with members of

Congress who care, who will fight for you. That is imperative. Again, call your members two zero two two two four three one two one, and until next time, Welcome home, y'all.