Comment by softwaredoug
8 days ago
The numbers they claim to save are like trying to turn your household budget around by cutting out a weekly latte.
If you really want to make big financial changes, you need a lot more income, or cut serious costs - like a car payment or downsize your house. In the case of DOGE, I haven't seen them touch DoD or any of the massive medical programs, etc.
If they do cut $2T, there will be a huge recession — worldwide impact, but potentially has EU and China (and India?) all trading more with each other than at present, so plausibly results in China having a larger nominal GDP after the dust settles.
I kinda expect the senators to prevent it, but we will see.
> I haven't seen them touch DoD or any of the massive medical programs, etc.
Have you considered that they are going after the low-hanging fruit, getting in "reps & sets" before they attack programs that have vastly greater inertia and potentially bi-partisan support? DoD and healthcare cover a ton of jobs, and might actually trigger pushback from Congress, in ways that annihilating the CIA's propaganda arm (which is basically a handful of overpaid bougie Dem-leaning "journalists") doesn't.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wikileaks-usaid-has-been...
If they are small and don’t matter than why will it bother anyone? Let them mess around with their ineffective side project?
The answer is it does matter because it’s funding things both parties have an interest in.
The recent executive order for filling vacancies or whatever basically said doge can't touch dod or dohs.