<p>After forcing out a top official at the US Treasury Department, it now appears that Elon Musk has seized control of the government's payment system — with free rein to do what he wants. Over the weekend, Musk declared that he and his lackeys at DOGE — the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is not a department — would shut down government payments to specific organizations Musk doesn't like. Chief among these targets is USAID. In a flurry of social media posts, Musk denounced the independent agency as a "criminal organization," and a "viper's nest of radical-left marxists who […]</p>