Elon Musk revoked $80M in FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts

[CalRobert]

I'm curious about the mechanism used here.

There was some discussion of this on bluesky. What I'm not clear on is whether the payment was effectively cancelled/taken back/etc. or if they just went and took it out of the bank account. Either is a problem of course but the latter is truly disturbing.

I believe ACH transfers can be reversed for 5 business days, and I think this action was 5 business days after the initial payment, so maybe they used that mechanism?

[muddi900]

Why is this post flagged?

[renegade-otter]

Hey, the United States government is being destroyed by a tech billionaire. LET'S TALK ABOUT TAILWIND INSTEAD.

Ugh.

[jimswhims]

Yep.

[polski-g]

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

[nainzelliam49]

if they fund on homeless people may this is good idea

[dashundchen]

Falling for their propaganda again, maybe intentionally.

This is congressionally appropriated money for FEMA to administer a program, by DHS.

Congress and the Supreme Court have ruled impoundment is illegal. You are supporting a sprint into fascism where an unchecked executive has no push back on anything they do, violating the courts, law or constitution.

If you can't see why this is a problem, understand that it can and will be used to harm you too.

[lannisterstark]

Oh please. Funding you disagree with isn't "waste, fraud, abuse." I don't think there's a single citizen anywhere that agrees with everything the government spends on.

Musk has yet to provide a single line item that does so. If "no need for FOIA, everything is transparent" is so transparent, let us have every single line item, why he thinks it should be removed (the real reason, not "WFA"), and a method to submitting public comments that he then goes over and actually makes decisions like how rule changes are proposed, commented, and finalized in federal registers.

"I dun wan it" isn't a good enough reason.

[nullbyte808]

Years ago I was borderline Republican, now you would have to pay me whatever JD gets to vote for one.

[vFunct]

Can you confirm that this money was somehow “waste” and “graft”? I am not familiar with the details. What was this money allocated for? Who was going to spend it? How was it going to be spent?

Please confirm details.

[archagon]

Will DOGE revoke the State Department’s $400 million armored Tesla contract? https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administrati...

If not, then what more is there to say?

[lawn]

The lack of proof for any of this "waste" is what's truly staggering.

I actually agree that the democrats won't win an election any time soon... But that's because I believe the republicans will do away with free and fair elections.