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Announcements Mar 25, 2026 at 8:19 PM

White House turns down Elon Musk's offer to pay TSA workers during DHS shutdown

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-elon-musks-offer-pay-tsa-workers-dhs-shutdown/

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TheHipsterBandit Mar 25, 2026 +113
What if, hear me out, everyone paid into a system that paid the TSA and other government agencies? We could even set it up so that the highest earners would pay more, as they disproportionately benefit more from that system.
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Alleandros Mar 25, 2026 +21
That's just insane, it could never work. How are the high earners to ever create jobs if they have to pay anything into this system?
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MagicHarmony Mar 25, 2026 +11
What if politicians stopped acting like royalty and started acting like the civil servants they are, serving the people rather than their own needs. Pathetic that society has allowed these goons to siphon money from the people they are suppose to be serving.
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dyang44 Mar 25, 2026 +3
The people have to channel the French and American revolutionaries and learn from them
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bratbarn Mar 25, 2026 +6
Ok but have you considered the ✨ shareholders ✨
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Black_Magic_M-66 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Trump wants to leverage the TSA worker pain, so any plan that doesn't involve Trump getting what HE wants won't work.
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UltravioletAfterglow Mar 26, 2026 +1
Brilliant! And we could send people from our respective states and local areas to Washington to represent our interests so the federal government isn’t out of touch.
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AutoModSux Mar 26, 2026 +1
*urge to toss tea into harbor intensifies*
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Alternative_Rate7474 Mar 25, 2026 +31
It is, among other things, illegal.
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XSinTrick6666 Mar 25, 2026 +1
So is slavery
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GlutenFreeGanja Mar 26, 2026 +1
And accepting bribes.
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Ok_Laugh_8278 Mar 25, 2026 +3
Think you're missing a key detail in that comparison bud.
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yosemiteclimber Mar 25, 2026 +14
at a 79% APR rate I'm sure...
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Nukesnipe Mar 25, 2026 +18
You have to remember his maturity level. It'd be 67.69%.
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MrExCEO Mar 25, 2026 +1
What no 420??
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Hell-Diver7 Mar 25, 2026 +1
The answer is 42
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arizonadirtbag12 Mar 25, 2026 +15
Nothing to my knowledge stops Elon from offering no-interest loans directly to TSA employees, same way Navy Federal and other credit unions do.
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Prize-Bumblebee-2192 Mar 25, 2026 +28
He never intended to pay them. He just wanted good press. He’s a disingenuous person
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NoCoffee6754 Mar 25, 2026 +6
Exactly - it’s his whole stunt with offering to send a sub to save those kids in the flooded cave even though the sub wouldn’t have fit inside the cave.
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Prize-Bumblebee-2192 Mar 25, 2026 +4
Or *offering to pay* for the legal for the Epstein victims *after he was identified as being in the files as trying to schedule a visit to the island*.
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S_A_R_K Mar 26, 2026 +1
Or when he offered to the world hunger
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ConditionHoliday2844 Mar 25, 2026 +3
Bingo
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GoodIdea321 Mar 25, 2026 +3
There is something that stops him from doing that, and it is greed. He wants that money.
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albatrossSKY Mar 25, 2026 +12
He cant even pay the rent at Twitter HQ or the severance he owes the people he fired. Its just a PR stunt to make himself look like a hero while trying to buy leverage over a federal agency.
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TheLivingRoomate Mar 25, 2026 +9
Total setup. Elon knew he wasn't legally allowed to do so before he made the offer.
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ToadP Mar 25, 2026 +5
Elon could just put the $ into the GoFundme account.
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XSinTrick6666 Mar 25, 2026 +2
He paid for Trump votes ... use the same bogus legal loopholes...
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dwors025 Mar 25, 2026 +3
The White House: No. We don’t want to set the precedent that rich people should pay for anything. That would negate the whole point of why we’re here in the first place.
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Xeones42 Mar 25, 2026 +3
He's not quite done using them as leverage 
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Unique-Freedom-6718 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Doesn’t he already have all the tsa info from doge and ssn’s and such just post them we know you know all their info
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ErinFiqsette Mar 25, 2026 +1
Well...If Leon will be paying, I might be willing to sign up, provided they meet my salary and signing bonus requirements...
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AgentInkling99 Mar 25, 2026 +1
With the taxpayers own money?
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AcanthisittaNo6653 Mar 25, 2026 +1
It is hard to imagine how trump doesn't realize he's become the villain in all this. He just doesn't care who he hurts.. TSA strong!
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Possible_Gur4789 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Pedo guy tweet incoming!
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KiraanjDaffodil Mar 25, 2026 -7
Elon's offer to pay was declined.
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Toebeans_Maguire Mar 25, 2026 +3
Yes, that's the title.
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