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> Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to be taking her new job slashing government waste quite literally, floating a plan to cut back on initiatives such as “toilets in Africa.”
> “And so when we look into a deep dive into this massive problem that’s caused America to be 36 trillion dollars in debt, we’re going to have to go into all kinds of buckets. And that’s how I’ll be separating things on the oversight subcommittee on DOGE,” she said.
> Greene then stated that NPR was high on the list for potential defunding, alongside very specific government grants.

“We’ll be looking at everything from government-funded media programmes like NPR, that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda. We’ll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa,” she said.
> The Wall Street Journal obtained emails from Texas regulators to Tesla that allege the MAGA billionaire’s electric carmaker dumped toxic pollutants near Austin, Texas—including untreated wastewater into the city’s sewer.

The Journal also obtained a whistleblower memo sent this year to the Environmental Protection Agency by an environmental-compliance staffer at Tesla’s Austin plant who wrote, “Tesla repeatedly asked me to lie to the government so that they could operate without paying for proper environmental controls.”
> According to the documents obtained by the Journal, in 2022 Tesla dumped untreated wastewater filled with toxins from a 6-acre “evaporation” pond it built into the Austin sewage system without permission from local authorities. Employees at one point had found a dead deer in the pond, which contained sulfuric and nitric acids.
> Earlier this year, Tesla was notified by local officials that it violated its municipal permit when it dumped more than 9,000 gallons of wastewater that was not correctly treated for pH, the Journal reported.
> Musk’s space technology company, SpaceX, was also recently fined by federal regulators for dumping 262,000 gallons of wastewater on Texas wetlands without a permit, something SpaceX has denied.
> Sources familiar with Tesla management’s thinking told the Journal that the C-suite at Musk’s biggest company don’t consider environmental rules one of their top concerns.
> Ramaswamy suggested they want to “delete” entire government agencies, which could vastly curtail, or practically eliminate, the oversight of certain industries, depending on the extent of the cuts.
 
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> It notes that, essentially after “special consideration” precedent relating to sitting presidents applies here, even though Trump is only president-elect and will not be inaugurated until 20 January 2025, when Biden, having metaphorically taken the keys to the White House from Trump four years ago, will hand them back.

“As a result, this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant inaugurated.”

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