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Thursday, February 27, 2025

The New York Times identified several dozen employees working for the Department of Government Efficiency, but conservatives were surprisingly unhappy about the transparency.

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"But knowing who's behind the seismic cuts is apparently not a priority for conservatives, who would seemingly rather keep DOGE's operators in a literal deep state."

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"But despite DOGE's mandate, some experts believe that the organization's haphazard work chopping the government into nonfunctional bits will actually add to the deficit.

On Tuesday, The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait argued that DOGE's "inflated" savings thus far had amounted to little more than a "rounding error" and that the group's decision to take a metaphorical chain saw to the IRS had effectively decimated the government's ability to collect revenue (taxes)"moves that could actually increase the nation's debt.

"There's a reason that none of the innumerable budget experts who have studied the deficit have proposed anything resembling what DOGE has come up with," Chait wrote.

"By almost any ideological standard, it is the worst possible approach."

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"the worst possible approach" is totally Donald to a T. Ax' any of the women he's raped and abused. Or any of the banks or clients or anyone he's promised money to and reneged.

Ask his swing voters today.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-27 05:00 PM | Reply

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