# What is the best possible non-insane/non-evil explanation for Trump's efforts so far?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-possible-non-insane-non-evil-explanation-for-trumps-efforts-so-far/1014420 "2025-02-17T15:41:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-possible-non-insane-non-evil-explanation-for-trumps-efforts-so-far/1014420/8 "2025-02-17T16:39:46Z")

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I mentioned over in the [“Why don’t you just…”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-experience-how-often-does-why-dont-you-just-actually-mean-i-have-not-fully-grasped-the-problem/1014411/23) thread that what Trump is doing - or particularly, what Musk/DOGE is doing, is a very very simplistic method to finding government waste.

Why don’t they just go through the budget line by line and get rid of waste? They can also set up a way for people to see how much waste they have identified and gotten rid of, in real time!

That is something that the good people of the r/personalfinance Subreddit tell people in debt/without savings that they should do. Why is it not what the federal government should do?\*

\*Rhetorical question. Please don’t explain why this is not something the federal government should do.

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