Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress

You can&#x27;t effect efficient change with zero knowledge.<p>But I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the point anyway, the point is to trash everything that operates interdependently in government, and enable the administration to become the one gateway to solve anything and then capture that income via corruption and etc.<p>You want cancer research? You want weather data? You gotta pay the toll... otherwise they don&#x27;t care. Everything they trash is potential income.

Congress is vested by the Constitution with the power to appropriate funds, or to not appropriate them.<p>There is currently a Republican Congress and Republican President.<p>Congress could &amp; should enact these cuts immediately instead of having the Executive do whatever it is that DOGE is doing. The Constitutional mechanism still works, and would be much more effective.

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Do we think doge keeps an internal dashboard for % US government destroyed?

The purpose of a system is what it does.<p>It was never about saving money, ever. Stop sane washing this whole scam.<p>It was about punishing people, organizations, and regulators who annoyed Elon and Trump.<p>Once you understand that, the whole thing makes sense.

Finally the government is run like a business - a magical world outsourcing, capricious decisionmaking, and c-suite self-delusion.<p>I am so glad we slaughtered the Deep State that made us ... checks notes ... the global hegemon.

&gt; <i>Mr. Musk’s group has deleted some of its original errors, like entries that triple-counted the same savings, a claim that confused “billion” with “million,” and items that claimed credit for canceling contracts that ended when George W. Bush was president.</i><p>I thought the purported benefit of having skilled programmers&#x2F;coders running DOGE would be that at least whatever they did would be done in a...programmatic way? But these sound like errors when doing manual data entry.

didnt take long for it to start operating like the rest of government.....

Even this article can&#x27;t get it right.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;chris-morris&#x2F;why-elon-musk-doge-savings-goal-fell-2-trillion-to-150-billion&#x2F;91175183" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inc.com&#x2F;chris-morris&#x2F;why-elon-musk-doge-savings-...</a><p>It was originally $2 trillion.<p>EDIT: Missed this earlier. Still think you should lead with the original claim to highlight the disparity!<p>&gt; When he was Mr. Trump’s most prominent supporter on the campaign trail, he said he could cut $2 trillion from a federal budget of about $7 trillion. After Mr. Trump was elected and Mr. Musk’s group began its work, Mr. Musk lowered that goal to $1 trillion.