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DOGE’s $1 Federal Spending Limit Is Straight Out of the Twitter Playbook
On this special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we talk about Elon Musk’s move to put spending limits on US government employee credit cards, plus how DOGE is embracing AI.
At Twitter, what this looked like is that people were kept in a conference room on Saturdays for 12 hours at a time, and they were arguing directly to Elon Musk about why a critical security software was needed at the company. And so suddenly, people who work at the Federal Aviation Administration and have to travel to airports around the country to test out security and safety kind of software aren't sure, like, wait, that's literally my job, but am I allowed to make that trip? And this story is by our wonderful reporter, Makena Kelly, and what she found was that DOGE is taking that old software and kind of repurposing it to maybe conduct mass firings of federal workers.
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