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Comment by fabian2k

9 days ago

This is a good example of what I mean. There is no evidence that DOGE is acting on actual fraud and abuse, that is immediately obvious if you consider how broad most of their actions are. And unless you think that the federal government should essentially not exist at all I don't think you can declare all this just "waste".

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refurb  9 days ago

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  • fabian2k  9 days ago

    DOGE should be able to make those arguments themselves. They're also not particularly transparent, so we have to assemble information from various sources.

    They're right now firing all probationary employees at multiple agencies. That is entirely indiscriminate, and almost certainly disruptive to the mission of those agencies.

    The actions at NIH and NSF will likely kill a large portion of the scientific research they used to fund. So unless you consider science in general be a waste I think these broad cuts clearly don't target actual waste and abuse.

    • refurb  8 days ago

      Not transparent?

      Compared to what? The Biden administration? Who never even held a press conference for months?

      And what evidence? Did you want a downloadable pdf of justification for each cut?

      The partisan nature of the criticism is obvious - Trump and Musk are bad, so nothing they do can be good. Produce evidence? Not good enough!

  • philk10  8 days ago

    The Twitter DOGE account posted a screenshot of where a 'Gender Identity Section' had been removed from a website. Where is the efficiency saving and where was the waste?

    • pests  8 days ago

      This is really what has been on my mind. Simone tagged Elon showing him a screenshot of some veteran website allowing you to select more than two genders. Elon replies with a “On it. @DOGE”

      I thought doge was about efficiency, why is he spending resources on the culture war?

  • insane_dreamer  8 days ago

    USAID, CFPB, 18F (free tax filing), DOJ (lawyers who worked on Trump cases), EPA (halting alternative energy projects), NSF/NIH (funding by keyword search of anything remotely DEI related) etc

    There aren’t any examples so far of stuff that is clearly waste and abuse.

  • bayarearefugee  8 days ago

    USAID.

    If you don't think foreign aid is important for the continued safety of the US then you don't understand soft power and have no business in modern politics.

    Sadly the people in charge fit into this category, except for the ones like Marco Rubio who actually do understand this but have no spine and are willing to overlook this stupidity for a seat at the table.