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Waste and fraud wasn’t targeted to be reduced though.I am always amazed at taxpayers getting upset that government spending and waste are targeted to be reduced.
You'd think everyone would be behind it, except the bureaucrats and Big Government types
Firstly, DOGE did no analysis whatsofuckingever as to what was wasteful or could be made more efficient. None. Musk sent out an email asking everyone in the government to let him know what they accomplished the previous week, and if he (with his zero government experience) felt it wasn’t accomplish-y enough, they were fired.
—Then they were all sent home to sit on their ass with pay, and eventually the government realized “holy shit, these people aren’t wasteful, they actually do jobs” and hired them all back.
Most of these contracts that were cancelled just result in the money going right back to the agency in question to be spent some other way, since they are mandated to spend the money by law.
And thirdly, any of these attempts mean absolutely jack shit when Trump and GOP pass a bill that’s going to add 3.5-5 trillion to the debt in the next decade.
DOGE was a failure when it came to eliminating fraud or waste, but they never really tried anyway. They existed to pinch pennies to offset massive tax cuts for the wealthy, to steal our personal info, and to target agencies that were investigating Musk.

