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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

The "big rush" is knowing that once we hit 2026 the brakes known as bureaucracy are going to get slammed on. Trump learned from the first 4. He learned to not trust DC and nothing there happens fast.
Yes, Trump wants to be King, but that's not how our gov't works.
 
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I’m still standing by my premise that they will cost the taxpayers more money than they will save.

They really should’ve looked at the cancellation clauses for the contracts they axed.
Plus, the hackers in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and all over telhe world have to be salivating at the half assed nature of Elon’s execution of his terminations. So much electronic messaging going around now to vendors, workers, former workers that Elon’s guys forgot to collect key cards from and shut off computer access to…
 
Plus, the hackers in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and all over telhe world have to be salivating at the half assed nature of Elon’s execution of his terminations. So much electronic messaging going around now to vendors, workers, former workers that Elon’s guys forgot to collect key cards from and shut off computer access to…

Of all of the dumb things, the key cards and computer access is pretty low on the list imo
 
really taking care of the corruption.


Literally WHY you (try to) fire all the IGs and replace them with paid-off lackeys.
That way you can reward all your donors with overblown contracts w/o any public oversight on where their money is going.


Quite a lot of similarities to what Iowa's governor is doing....
 
How much in savings so for vs court cost? And rehiring costs?
It's not those "near term" costs we need to be worried about.

It is the long-term costs from losing those government functions. Those will not show up within a week or two; they may not be noticed for many months, but they will end up being a drag on the economy, or will create higher costs for companies and for consumers.

Couple examples:
Shutting down NIH/FDA - companies rely on reviews from FDAs device approval sections - a statutory (law) requirement. If they remove too many people from these functions, existing and new devices cannot get approvals. That means small developers of innovative stuff go out of business; it means large companies cannot get existing/new products to market. And a shortage of medical devices/supplies for hospitals as the backlogs pile up.

USDA data on mountain watersheds - I just saw a gap in the data from the USDA site that I've never seen in the past (many years); implies that some of the folks who collect and log this data were impacted, and they had to shift work assignments to keep it going. Many of our municipalities on in the West rely on this data to know how full the reservoir systems will be this year, and to gauge how much water can be sent downstream vs stored. If that data goes away, they have nothing to go off of.

NWS and storm tracking/weather - same thing, already mentioned. W/o anyone collecting the data, none of the models have anything to predict from. Not a good 'plan' heading into hurricane season.

The examples can go on and on and on. Musk and his buddies are firing people willy-nilly w/o any understanding of the long-term consequences. And federal employment has DROPPED consistently since the 1960s. Most of the federal budget is to contractors, not federal employees. Contractors like Musk.
 
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DOGE is not even targeting the biggest agencies. Only the "Woke" stuff, that's in the agencies w/ the smallest budgets.

Not gonna save much money targeting the smallest pieces of the pie



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