My guess is now agencies are having to pay out a fuck ton in overtime and temp/traveler positions. …which was an expected outcome from day one. Don’t think of this as a blunder: Elon, Trump, etc are enemies of the United States, and crippling our mission while simultaneously making it even more costly was their goal.
A lot of the “cuts” were for programs that had already been funded… the money was already spent. Agreements and contracts were cancelled. Some of those surely had penalties involved. Some were for things they actually needed, and so they’ve had to renegotiate again with worse terms because the government just proved it can’t be trusted.
No, for the most part, those agencies are prohibited from paying overtime. A lot of what was supposed to happen was jobs being replaced by AI. That doesn’t mean the AI works or is effective. It just means it replaced.
But it did achieve the actual goal, which is that it created a cloud of confusion where a lot of money was moved around and huge amounts wound up in the private pockets of oligarchs, who laughed while hundreds of thousands died.
Autopen! Signatures don’t count!
I feel like this is missing the point. What did ‘doge’ accomplish for musk, and others, what was the value of that, and what is the value of the harm done in cancelling those very specific programs? Firing all those people, etc etc, it’s straight up crime. Somebody , pretty obvious who, is making out like a bandit, giggling to the bank.
That’s the point. With the government nearly broke, he’s trying to pump out the last of the wealth there by gutting the welfare state to free up more capital for his investments. He’s since been mostly sidelined, but the corporatist wing of the MAGA coalition are working on a lot of the same plays behind the scenes still.
Dude in 3 of the 70 EOs trump did in his first week he gave at least 1.5 billion to AI companies, about $500 million to each.
Spending always goes up under republican administration. They only know how to steal. Their supporters are too ignorant to notice.
Is our government efficient yet?
Yes, but the money was probably directed at the “right” type of people.
Federal spending to try to get rid of federal spending! You have to spend more to spend less!
Bernie Madoff was ahead of his time
