Step 1. Break the thing.<p>Step 2. Blame the most convenient scapegoat.<p>Step 3. Eliminate the thing.<p>Step 4. Transfer money from the thing into your own pockets indirectly through corruption, emoluments, fraud, and self-serving no-bid contracts.
Updated title: "Social Security Backtracks on DOGE Phone Service Cuts After Media Report"<p>A few things get saved by media attention, but the firehose of sometimes-criminal actions mostly get by without being noticed.