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  • thesuperbigfrog19 小时前
    "The extent of DOGE’s access to the payments system appeared to be laid bare on Sunday by Musk, who responded to a post on X which contained a spreadsheet showing payments to a number of Lutheran charities."

    I wonder if these payments to charities are payroll deductions of federal employees as part of the Combined Federal Campaign?

    The Combined Federal Campaign allows federal employees to choose to give to charities of their choice by payroll deductions.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Federal_Campaign

    https://givecfc.org/

    It would make sense for all of the playroll deductions to be sent as a single payment for a given pay period.

    • legitster18 小时前
      There are like a dozen legitimate reasons the treasury would be giving money to a charity. Either he's being mega dumb or he is counting on his followers to be.
      • bloomingkales10 小时前
        They want demonize any recipient as the antagonist. That’s the reframing, standard manipulation.
    • unsnap_biceps13 小时前
      From the spreadsheet Flynn posted, it seems mostly focused on https://www.globalrefuge.org/what-we-do/ (which was renamed recently from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service). It seems clearly politically motivated given their mission statement and services provided.
  • cocacola119 小时前
    > The spreadsheet was posted by Mike Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, who was pardoned in 2020 after pleading guilty to lying about his contacts with Russians.

    Looks like the info has already been sold to the highest bidder. Yikes.

  • beardyw19 小时前
    What's wrong with Lutheran organisations? Can they not qualify for grants?
    • basementcat10 小时前
      My understanding is they may have been providing assistance to refugees. This type of activity may not be consistent with "America First" rhetoric.
    • unsnap_biceps15 小时前
      Nothing, as long as the grant is for something non-religious, like running a food bank or providing clothes for anyone, regardless of their faith.
  • legitster18 小时前
    Did Musk provide any more details or evidence than what is alluded to in this article?

    It sounds more like he and his cronies are incredibly naive about the nature of federal payments.

  • moogly19 小时前
    "[I]llegal payments", claims the US Minister of Propaganda without showing any proof.

    Do you guys even have an opposition party? I'm not hearing or seeing any in your media, which is supposedly "liberal leaning", or so I have been told for decades.

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