Economist/Futurist Catherine Austin Fitts Heightens DOGE Warnings

Daily Clout (2025)

In this episode, Naomi Wolf invite financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts to outline her major concerns Elon Musk’s current DOGE program. Overall Fitts is really happy about many of Trump’s executive orders, especially those that reduce corrupt and increase transparency.

She’s also sympathetic to the pressure Trump (and RFK Jr) face in dealing with the Wall Street and Zionist lobby. That’s why it’s really important that we call them out when they betray the MAGA and MAHA principles they campaigned on

Recent polls reveal that the majority of Americans have ceased to support DOGE, especially when they see department heads resign rather than break the law by obeying Trump’s.

As Fitts points out, the DOGE website provides little evidence for most of their claims (see No 150-year-olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits). She’s also concerned that DOGE has violated many privacy and information technology laws and that Musk may be trying to clandestinely privatize federal data collection. At the moment there is nothing (but the courts) to stop him from using our personal, financial and medical data to benefit his AI company, xAI, and/or to build some kind of private social credit database.

She refers to a January 27 2025 announcement about Musk integrating xAI with Peter Thiel’s Palantir AI platform. This is concerning, given that Palantir, a big data analytics company that collaborates with the NSA to enhance their surveillance capacity, has already uploaded all the personal, financial and medical information of Social Security Disability recipients.

According to Fitts, allowing Musk collect any data on Social Security recipients is a possible first step in handing over the Social Security payment system to banks or other private companies. Moreover using xAI to integrate this information with other data sets, enables the creation of a social credit system. In this way, powerful oligarchs could cancel someone’s Social Security for expressing unacceptable political views.

According to Fitts, Musk has already committed a felony by violating federal conflict of interest laws, which forbid any officer or employee of the US government from interceding in matters that benefit their private financial interests.

She’s also really concerned that Trump has fired the White House Ethics Officer and the five inspectors general who were investigating Musk’s companies. The Department of Defense inspector general was investigating Musk for possible use of illicit drugs and secret conversations with Putin. Two of Musk’s companies, Space X and Star Link, have multibillion dollar contracts with the Department of Defense, and both would be highly problematic behaviors for a defense contractor. See Musks Companies Under Investigation by Five Insprectors General. Musk’s average income from his federal contracts is $8 million a day.

Trump has also shut down the Consumer Protection Agency. Consumer Protection Agency

Fitts worries the ultimate goal of Musk and his backers may be to give banks ultimate control over fiscal policy by eliminating the civil service altogether. Unfortunately many  MAGA supporters equate the civil service with the deep state and are unaware of their role in ensuring new congressional laws are implemented. Without them the legislative branch would be helpless in preventing Wall Street from having total control over fiscal policy. At present Congress still has a surprising amount of control over the privately owned Federal Reserve (most importantly the New York Federal Reserve Bank which issues the debt to keep the US government operating).

According to Fitts, the civil service also stands in the way of Musk and his cronies creating the control grid they would need to force all Americans to sign up for digital ID.

At the end of the interview she makes the surprising revelation that US currently owns $500 trillion worth of federal land across the country. This is obviously more than enough to pay of the federal government’ current $36.2 trillion debt. She worries about speculation that some corporate oligarchs may try to purchase the land with cryptocurrency, which amounts to buying it for nothing.