Government brain drain will haunt US after DOGE abruptly terminated.
After Donald Trump curiously started referring to the Department of Government Efficiency exclusively in the past tense, an official finally confirmed Sunday that DOGE “doesn’t exist.”
Talking to Reuters, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor confirmed that DOGE—a government agency notoriously created by Elon Musk to rapidly and dramatically slash government agencies—was terminated more than eight months early. This may have come as a surprise to whoever runs the DOGE account on X, which continued posting up until two days before the Reuters report was published.
As Kupor explained, a “centralized agency” was no longer necessary, since OPM had “taken over many of DOGE’s functions” after Musk left the agency last May. Around that time, DOGE staffers were embedded at various agencies, where they could ostensibly better coordinate with leadership on proposed cuts to staffing and funding.
Many Americans may not realize this, but the actions of DOGE were effectively the destruction of their generational inheritance; decades and generations of taxpayer dollars to build an effective machine for doing the work of government.
That won’t be rebuilt in a month or a year or even a decade. Its multi-generational damage which has been done.
But just think of all the data that Elon Musk got to mine out of the government, to feed to his AI.
Won’t anyone think of the billionaires?
Yeah, maybe they shut it down once they got all the data out of it they wanted.
And the result is a bullshit machine that worships Muskrat.
I thought it worshipped Hitler?
Yeah. Data on how the gov’t works. What it does and how it did it.
After he went ahead and changed the way they do it. All in all, quite useless information now.
The only thing Grok will learn is how to impersonate the government better.
Plus personal data on all employees and quite likely personal data on all citizens
The only way to recoup losses from the damage done will be an effective 99%+ tax on income, from any source, on amounts over 10 million.
That and treason charges, followed by executions
I mean I’m all for the guillotines coming out. I think we should have brought them out on January 7th 2021 and start taking serious making things right then.
But even a modest wealth tax (like every red cent after a billion becomes the states or off with your head).
Like no amount of money can mend a broken heart? What was destroyed isn’t something you can just throw money at to fix. There was a breach of trust between the smartest people in our society (NASA, NIH, etc…) and society itself, in the sense that the elected government is a reflection of society.
And as citizens attempt to rebuild, the data taken will be weaponised and used against them.
I’ve seen it first hand. I work as a consultant in public sector. Every where we go now the teams are crippled because people took the buyouts and left. Network teams that were 7 people reduced to 2 that are barely keeping things together. I’m sure NetApp, IBM, Microsoft, etc… love selling all these consulting hours now.
I was at a military industry conference a month or so ago, with several flag level officers giving talks. The total amount of lost years of experience and senior leadership in the military and intelligence agencies is staggering. It is going to take generations to recover.
I’d bet some of those ex government employees are back doing the same job as IBM contractors for 3x the cost.
Yep, exactly. That’s DOGE efficiency.
Duh it was nothing but a cover for the grift of billions of dollars.
A grift of access to confidential government data. Data is the new gold.
Elon Musk is Nazi he need kick out of America.
Efficiency-obsessed weirdos don’t understand redundancies. All they see are inefficiencies, and think people can just make up for them in harder times by just “working harder”, which for these weirdos just become a new baseline for even more cuts.
don’t understand redundancies
names agency after a program where every user has to download everyone else’s transactions
I’d be shocked if he knew how the blockchain works.
You give him too much credit for seeing inefficiency. It was simply “gov is too expensive. We need massive layoffs”.
Musk is a Nazi & should be deported.
Doge was a grift, nothin more. It’s always a fucking grift with those “people”.
This is what happens when someone has a whole shitload of money but not a good understanding of the world in which he can spend it.
DOGE was nothing more than an entity to fleece the American people of resources and information…and likely to scrub some information that might incriminate certain individuals.
DOGE couldn’t have possibly worked, ever. I think everybody knows a situation where there’s an employee who is contributing far more than their own manager knows. So the point is that even if you asked everybody’s immediate managers to decide who to lay off, you’d have huge mistakes being made.
A central bureaucracy like DOGE is so much farther removed from that situation that it’s not even funny. There is simply no way that it has the expertise to conduct layoffs, and it was obvious from the beginning. Companies facing layoffs know that they will lose unreplaceable employees, but they have to do so due to immediate financial pressures, nothing like what the government faces.
So, DOGE was either a stupid idea created by absolute morons, or it was a cover for bad actors who never intended to do what they claimed. Or a little from column a, and a little from column b.
Also, the methodology was awful. Offer buyouts for people to leave. That means the people who are the best at their job and most confident in finding a new job left.
It was never meant to “work”. It was all about causing chaos while they executed one of the largest data breaches in history. Remember the reports of Elon’s crackers locking people out while they downloaded data to external drives from government computers?
Musk for prison 2026!
I hope they were able to negotiate higher pay to come back too and some kind of signing bonus since their last deal was broken
Cutting into the fat would have meant getting rid of political appointees.
It’ll be a good day when seal team six is bin laden-ing this mangled cock ass hat.
Here you forgot some of these: - -
Musk left in May… wow it’s been a long than 1 years.
