Musk Says DOGE Is Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors

https://archive.ph/2025.02.03-011054/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-02/musk-says-doge-is-rapidly-shutting-down-treasury-payments

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I assume that the directive also includes his companies! He gets a heap for all his projects.
- His company's would have been buried without the government handouts.

Ohh joy, every government contract is going to need even more upfront and margin to make up for the uncertainty as to if the check will clear.
News flash, being known for not paying your’re bills on time is not an effective way to get good deals.
- It’s worked so far for Trump. People have been suing him for decades because he’s infamous for not paying bills, and yet for some reason everyone kept doing business with him.
  There’s a whole lot of really stupid rich people. Take Elon, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_purse#United_States
In the federal government of the United States, the power of the purse is vested in the Congress as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 (the Appropriations Clause) and Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (the Taxing and Spending Clause).
The power of the purse plays a critical role in the relationship of the United States Congress and the President of the United States, and has been the main historic tool by which Congress has limited executive power. One of the most prominent examples is the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, which eliminated all military funding for the government of South Vietnam and thereby ended the Vietnam War. Other recent examples include limitations on military funding placed on Ronald Reagan by Congress, which led to the withdrawal of United States Marines from Lebanon.
Trump and Elon just doing some extra-judicial unconstitutional very minimal treason.
- Odds of them wriggling out of this one: 99.9%.

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