“On January 20th, the day Trump took office, a DOGE team including current and former Musk employees assumed command of the critical Office of Personnel and Management (OPM). DOGE delivered pull-out sofa beds to the fifth floor of OPM headquarters. The fifth floor is OPM’s top-management floor. The sofa beds were installed so the DOGE team could work around the clock. Meanwhile, OPM’s staff managers, like its CMO Katie Malague, were quickly and neatly moved out of their offices down to new offices on lower floors. It was a physical and psychological demotion, even if not any change in title or salary. "It feels like a hostile takeover," one of the leakers complained to Reuters. Next, OPM employees were unceremoniously cut off from all administrative access to the systems. They can still log in and do their work, but they cannot access any management functions or data. All this change is making their jobs much more exciting than usual. OPM staff were “surprised,” for example, by the “Fork in the Road” memo last week, since the first time they saw it was at the same time it was sent out to all federal employees. Amusingly, the article was sourced from leakers, but failed to connect the obvious dot: the DOGE team cut the OPM staff out of the loop because they clearly think the career people will leak like rusty sieves. I’d hoped DOGE would do some good stuff, but I had no idea it would be like this… We learned even more about Musk’s work from three other leakers and an internal Treasury memo… The Washington Post broke the story yesterday headlined, “Senior U.S. official exits after rift with Musk allies over payment system.” The Treasury Department issues all payments on behalf of the United States. In that sense, every social security payment, every grant, tax refund, stimulus payment, Obamacare reimbursement, foreign aid, Fauci’s security detail’s strip club reimbursement, the whole works— if paid by the US, the check comes from Treasury. It issues more than 1.3 billion individual checks totaling over $6 trillion yearly. In other words, Musk’s database engineers have been dying to dig into that Treasury data, to determine exactly what the US has been buying and whowe’ve been paying. For example, does their name end with “-ensky?” This database is the mother lode leading to the deep state…” —Jeff Childers