One should point out that the House is currently failing to pass a budget because they’re trying to push Trump’s desire to have no debt limits for the next two years.
That would seem to imply that his intention is purely to offer small government as a ruse, while actually racking up a debt. …Which, of course, matches his first term in office.
DOGE is already dead. Talking about it like it’s a real thing only aids in supporting the ruse. Your time would be better spent pointing out said ruse to the backers of either of the two groups of cultists.
Disagree. DOGE is alive and well and will be an enormously effective smoke-screen. “Look at the billions that we saved through efficiency! (please ignore the hundreds of billions we gave to our friends)”
The number of friends isn’t large enough for that.
The size of Federal spending is so big that any meaningful cut would cover over any ridiculous amount of corruption several times, let alone needing to allow for debt growth.
I interpreted “friends” to simply mean “spending we favor.” Tax breaks for the wealthy, corporate subsidies, reduction of regulation - I could view all of those and more as “gifts to friends.”
Nope - you hit it right on the head. “Gifts to friends” will (not “could”) include
corporate tax breaks
reduction in oversight
removal of environmental rules
preferential contracts
etc.
Note: DOGE will find some efficiencies. Jobs will be eliminated. Aid to non-friendly states (read that as blue US states or foreign nations) will be cut. There will be a return of Senator Proxmire’s Golden Fleece awards. These will all add up to numbers that will impress Joe Lunchbox, but will have negligible effect on total government spending or on deficit spending. Meanwhile, new “gifts” to Wall Street, red states, etc. will be hundreds of times as much.
Funny, in my shop, I could identify all manner of “efficiencies” that could be made. But, I guarantee that if anything is cut, it ain’t gonna be what this 38-year veteran feels ought to be. And I would expect any “cuts” to be accompanied by IMO unnecessary increased expenditures elsewhere.
What a pathetic little turd. His entire “campaign,” from the get go, was a desperate attempt to be nominated VP. He insisted it wasn’t but it obviously was, which is why he endorsed Trump and slurped him at every opportunity.
And then, being passed over for a couch fucker, in a desperate attempt to continue hanging out with the popular kids, he agreed to be co-whatever of a department that doesn’t exist.
Did you read the Executive Order that established DOGE? It’s far more limited than anyone was thinking it would be. Its only mandate is to look at computing systems, and it had a limited lifetime of 18 months. Trump has already mostly neutered Musk. What’s unclear is if Musk realizes it.
Please allow me a question as a non native speaker: how is DOGE pronounced? Is is D-O-G-E or is it one word like NATO?
It’s rather new as an acronym, so it might be that people pronounce it differently.
Doge comes from a meme, that was then turned into cryptocurrency, and now this. But it originates from a Homestar Runner sketch, where it is pronounced as one word: “dough-zzh”.
