New Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

[NotJoeBiden]

That’s great it passed. Silly that Musk actively removed it from the budget bill seeing as it had bipartisan support. It is just added more unnecessary bureaucracy.

[Ares]

With the size of China's navy now exceeding ours, we need the submarines.

Ya, cause they have hundreds more patrol vessels, not because they have actual war ships.

Where is the fiscal conservatism? I thought we were trying to stop unnecessary spending?

Drones can do a lot of damage too and we still have more VLS missiles but China is rapidly closing that gap.

What I want to cut is massive but it does not include weakening the U.S. militarily. With that being said I am all for reducing waste with military spending but canceling strategic assets is not one of them.

If Taiwan falls to China, everything is going to get a lot more expensive, real fast, estimates show a 10% loss of global GDP.

The only thing that stops foreign aggression is being a lot bigger and more capable than the aggressor.

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It is just cope. All Musk managed to do was stir up confusion and cut the aforementioned as well as things like children’s cancer research. It did practically nothing to reduce the budget.

Musk won in everyway imaginable. Just 118 pages down from a 1,547 pages is a huge win all night long.

[NotJoeBiden]

With the size of China's navy now exceeding ours, we need the submarines.

Ya, cause they have hundreds more patrol vessels, not because they have actual war ships.

Where is the fiscal conservatism? I thought we were trying to stop unnecessary spending?

Drones can do a lot of damage too and we still have more VLS missiles but China is rapidly closing that gap.

What I want to cut is massive but it does not include weakening the U.S. militarily. With that being said I am all for reducing waste with military spending but canceling strategic assets is not one of them.

But this wouldnt be a cut to the military, it would just be not expanding the budget for unnecessary subs. Just another shiny new toy. We have dozens more aircraft carriers than China, and a plane is more than capable of sinking a patrol vessel if, and a big if, it ever came to it.

If Taiwan falls to China, everything is going to get a lot more expensive, real fast, estimates show a 10% loss of global GDP.

Interesting you are worried about costs when supporting a president who is going to implement blanket tariffs for no reason.

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It is just cope. All Musk managed to do was stir up confusion and cut the aforementioned as well as things like children’s cancer research. It did practically nothing to reduce the budget.

Musk won in everyway imaginable. Just 118 pages down from a 1,547 pages is a huge win all night long.

Page number is such an odd metric to use for this when it equated to very little change over the larger bill. His whole goal was to drastically cut spending and all he really did was cut the bill page number with minor cuts.

[LevelUP]

Some updates on DOGE

Trump made DOGE part of the government. Here’s what that might mean
https://apnews.com/article/doge-governme...f6c78d3317

DOGE may target the penny: Why do we still have it anyway?
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_med...it-anyway/

If DOGE wants to find waste, it should start with my old agency
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5098...-spending/

DOGE added to https://www.usdebtclock.org/
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/busine...ment/story

[NotJoeBiden]

Can’t wait for them to bring down price of eggs by cutting DEI.

[LevelUP]

Can’t wait for them to bring down price of eggs by cutting DEI.

How much do you want to bet that the price of eggs will be below $3 per dozen by August 2025?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

[LevelUP]

Another DOGE win.

State Dept pulls $50 million in funding for ‘condoms in Gaza,’ as Trump admin looks to trim spending
https://nypost.com/2025/01/28/world-news...-spending/

The Jerusalem Post reported in 2020 that scores of condoms were being used to create IED-carrying balloons that winds would carry into southern Israel, raising alarm on schoolyards, farmlands and highways. 
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-confl...oms-616619

[Jonathan Whatley]

The preceding 57 posts were split from the thread "Department of Education gone?" We can use that thread for the potential Department of Education closure and related education policy issues, this thread for US government efficiency issues in general and in other departments and agencies.

[NotJoeBiden]

Very cool of DOGE for forcing the FAA Chief out and implement a hiring freeze on for already understaffed department. Now the largest American aircraft disaster in decades has occurred right by the White House as a direct result.


https://newrepublic.com/post/190964/faa-...ment-trump

[NotJoeBiden]

Again.

https://apnews.com/article/philadelphia-...cc3738a370 A small plane has crashed in Northeast Philadelphia, governor says