[blandcoffee]

Does anyone else find it odd, that this type of access would typically require training and/or a background check, yet here we are 12 days after this administration was sworn in?

Are there no checks and balances in place? Seems like one side that won the popular vote has taken the entire spectrum of action, regardless if they need to govern for an entire nation.

[blendo]

It appears there are no checks and balances in place. Congress could impeach, or the Supreme Court could enjoin (is that the word?), but I see no prospect of either happening soon.

[b0sk]

Remember that they are all controlled by one party, so everyone is willing to look the other way (and cynically, probably cheerleading it)

[scarab92]

It would help if people could outline exactly what they are concerned about.

As far as I can tell, nothing that that Musk et al is doing is unusual when an organisation changes hands. This is normal for a change of government or a corporate aquisition.

Perhaps there should be certain, limited, aspects of executive decision making that require congressional oversight, but because left weren't decrying the lack of checks and balances previously, they now come across as sore losers, worse, dishonest sore losers who are cloaking their pettiness as concern.

Secondly, the left lost the public support so badly that the republicans control congress now, so even if such oversight existed, it would also be controlled by the republican party.

[nicce]

Didn’t Trump just remove those checks?

Or maybe this is something else: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-temporary-...

[ranger_danger]

> Are there no checks and balances in place?

All it takes for bad people to win, is for good people to do nothing.

[kcplate]

> is for good people to do nothing

Or for good people to run shitty candidates that can’t win the election

[ty6853]

This system is squarely in the hands of the executive. The elected executive handed access to DOGE, as he advertised in his campaign. This is so squarely and fairly a democratic action it defies logic this is even worth taking note of. This is what the people, who the government is beholden to, explicitly asked for. Tyranny would be NOT handing it over.

[locopati]

The Constitution provides for checks&balances. This violates the Appointments Clause (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2). It is unconstitutional like so many of these executive orders that violate the 1st and 4th Amendments.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointments_Clause

[blandcoffee]

Interesting - I genuinely want to understand your perspective here.

Are you saying following the laws to protect sensitive information is not worth it in this case, because it has been authorized by the party of the day?