> DOGE’s approach is much more of a “private equity play,” said Samuel Hammond, chief economist for the right-leaning tech policy think tank Foundation for American Innovation. “It’s sort of liquidation nation,” he said, referring to the way private equity firms strip companies down for parts. While he said DOGE isn’t “universally praised or condemned” among the conservative technologists he knows, he said more people in those circles are starting to “talk about the DOGE that could have been.”