So who is paying citizen Mush if not the taxpayer?
Not you. You donât have a horse in that race.
What did you find out about the checks and balances?
Chinese Nationalist student attending UCLA, got her VISA revoked for organizing pro Palatine rallies and sent back to China.
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Exactly! that is my feeling about most of Trumps pronouncements it is fodder for Yankâs amusement only. I really donât care, itâs a foreign government - I donât worry about what the Indonesian or Chinese Government does either (they are much closer) and the latter was horrid to us for a while but weâre mates again now.
Being British is complex enough
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It probably is but what he says is tongue in cheek and holds true for anyone living in Europe regardless of their nationality. Heâd have to try harder. 
âŠalso in those cases where Trump is again removing and/or altering public data from websites? 
So Mush is being paid out of the taxpayer pocket and you donât feel comfortable admitting that?
You havenât yet explained what checks and balances there are in place to contain so mush enthusiasm. But there was a news discussion about this last night confirming that the Doge is some sort of âadvisoryâ body that has been given free reign to make sweeping changes without any congressional approval.
If you think removing separation of powers in this way is the way to MAGA, you might want to take whatever neural disinfectant you have been using back to the shop!
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Watch out - they might decide Oz is US state number 53 (after Gaza and Greenland)!
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We ask the questionsâŠ
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Indeed - the CIA and FBI donât have any staff left to ask questions
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According to the White House Musk is a âspecial government employeeâ but heâs not getting a paycheck. That means no âtaxpayersâ moneyâ is wasted on him.
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I suppose he could give them a bob or two DachsâŠ
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And he is not even sale it the Russians and Chinese. He is given ng it to them 
Is he being paid out of tax payers pocket?
Are you having a problem with it?
The three branches of government is the checks and balances. Try to keep up. Itâs been that way for over 200 years.
Who in that news discussion was at that meeting?
Did you find out the answer yet?
You might want to change your health care system because the medication they are giving you has you putting statements in that I havenât even made. It might be free but it ainât good.
Check your medications. Youâre hallucinating because that is not true at all.
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As usual, this beautifully framed government has multiple checks and balances through the vote, judicial system, and legislative branches, and clearance through the executive branch.
First of all, the is audit IS the check and balance. The American public VOTED for the promise of a massive audits by the new administration. It is the most powerful balance of all. This unfathomable extent of waste and alleged fraud is the check on unfettered spending.
Second, the judicial system here is mighty. You may not understand the power of the judicial system in this country since your access to the court system is more limited. Itâs similar - but itâs definitely not to the same extent. If you notice, there was an emergency ex parte claim made that froze access to some auditing powers for a week while the question of access is reviewed.
The third is the Congressional power of advice and consent. For many appointees, the approval of the Senate is necessary, but special appointees who work less than half of a year do not require it. For certain access of material, employees and appointees also require a top secret clearance - and Musk received that during the Biden Administration. The executive branch has the power to remove Musk and other appointees under the oversight of other departments. Unlike Biden who never removed an appointee, Trump has a history of exercising this power, regardless of party. Congress is free to pass emergency legislation at any time.
Just because one doesnât get oneâs way, doesnât mean this beautiful system of checks and balance system isnât working.
Perhaps the more important dog in this hunt for our friends across the pond is pondering this reflection in the pond:
Why do you not have the extent of the protections that we do? And what might be done about that? Perhaps a true Constitution, a directly elected President/Prime Minister, a freer judicial system,fewer restrains on tort litigation, and further limiting the power of your un-elected monarchy (that to our eye is still surprising)?
For example, why do your un-elected, monarchs have privy to so much sensitive information and why do they have any more advice through access powers to the PM than regular citizens? Why are they allowed so much access to and knowledge of foreign powers and security matters? Why do they not (or do they?) have to undergo regular screening and clearance? Why do they get minutes of cabinet meetings? Why do they get foreign security briefings? As closest allies, should we worry about what King Charles knows? Why does he have access to any of this - at all?
Consider that Musk is the least of your worries.
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Iâm see peace loving haters asking questions that have been explained time after time and they never mention any of the many improvements during this the last couple of weeks of the new administration. It honestly appears there is an underlying hate or jealousy of this countries capability compared to their own. Iâve also noticed that the world walked over the last administration and none have had the capability to do that to this administration.
The separation of powers is actually part of the Westminster system - they basically invented it (English Civil War and all that) though the theory is much older but just like their sport everybody else does it better.
It is incorporated into the Australian Constitution - which itself is a British Act of Parliament.
While I donât like to give the French credit for much of anything , I think, to your point, that Montesquieu proposed separation of powers it back in the 18th Century.
I have homework from Annie, but I will definitely add your constitution to my reading list; I have never read it.
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Because our monarch is also the Head of State, albeit with limited real power.