There's no way DOGE is revenue positive. Not after all the lawsuits and settlements.

Then there is the fact that top talent is more likely to cash in their chips and move to the greener pastures of the private sector. Resulting in a government that is not only smaller but less effective (which is the plan).

"Right now, the IRS fails to collect around $700 billion in taxes that are owed each year."

Trump can surely get that up to a trillion, through mass layoffs at IRS.

Fun fact, my mom used to work at IRS. She knows COBOL better than Elon Musk and his lackeys.

"don't most if not all of those agencies report up to a cabinet member, who gets told by Trump to do whatever Musk says??"

The buck stops, uh, somewhere I guess.

"it's even more ridiculous that some employees work from home, get paid"

I'm literally doing that right now!

Is it the working part, the being at home part, or the getting paid part, which makes you feel bad about yourself?

"Never has what is currently occurring, occurred during American history."

He thought of that:
"The president selects a cabinet which can direct their respective agencies to do exactly this, right?"
"can"

See, they "can" do these things, and they've always been able to do these things; they just didn't.
So from a Republican way of looking at, designed to make sure you don't see anything:
Nothing Has Fundamentally Changed.

"just assuming they are all lazy is a massive mistake."

It's a mistake.
More than that, it's a defense mechanism called Projection.

Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other.[1] It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world.[1] In its malignant forms, it is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against disowned and highly negative parts of the self by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others, breeding misunderstanding and causing interpersonal damage.[2] Projection incorporates blame shifting and can manifest as shame dumping.[3] Projection has been described as an early phase of introjection.[4]
--wikipedia

"DOGE claims it has saved taxpayers $715 each."

Here's a good test:
Can you figure out how much money that is for America, just in your head?
If you can't, you probably think Trump is our greatest President.
If you can, you probably realize there's no way your taxes are going to be $715 lower next year -- barring the Trump Great Depression causing you to lose your job and your top tier tax rate on your top tier income.

"If you can't respond to an email listing five things you did the last month you are lazy and unqualified."

If you think you can gauge an employee's value by requiring them to send an email listing five things they did last month, you are lazy and unqualified.

I'm wondering if these Republicans think the business sector is 50% waste too.

I'm wondering if Republicans think we could be paying half at the grocery store if those fat cats at the H-E-B would just trim their own fat.

"If Trump had attempted this experiment on a smaller scale with Musk simply being appointed as Sec of Transportation and he chose to do to just that department what he's doing everywhere....that would be exactly what I'm describing."

Experiment, lol.
Please describe exactly what Trump's "experiment" is supposed to reveal.

Call it the deliberate destruction of our own capacity to govern.

You know that is what is happening.

It's okay if DOGE loses money, because Democrats are okay with all the waste, fraud, and abuse that also loses money.

It's okay with us Republicans when Republicans act the same as the wasteful, fraudulent, abusive Democrats.

Signed,
Republican Genuises Of The DR