There’s a rude awakening in store for the DOGE bros

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1. “It was 1982, and President Ronald Reagan’s Grace Commission began its quest to get rid of hundreds of billions of dollars in ‘wasteful’ spending.

   Much like President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” the advisory board led by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Grace Commission had no authority to implement changes, only to advise.

   And after a couple of years of work, the Grace Commission’s 150-plus members persuaded Congress to enact exactly zero of its recommendations.

   You can’t find any evidence that they changed the growth of the government one iota.

   Musk and Ramaswamy will face an immediate math challenge with finding a way to severely slash spending — especially if they commit to the $2 trillion figure Musk has tossed around.

   Roughly 60% of the federal government’s budget comprises what’s known as mandatory spending — primarily Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. It would be political suicide to dramatically cut funding for those safety-net programs, which is why there is no appetite in Congress to do so. Trump has promised to protect Social Security.

   Non-defense discretionary spending has already been dialed back, standing at the lowest level in modern history as a percentage of GDP, according to Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.

   For example, if the White House wanted to freeze federal funds to schools with vaccine mandates, as the president-elect has suggested, the move would be challenged in court by the school or local government. It would be up to the courts to uphold or overturn that order, potentially holding up vital funds for months or even years.”

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   Handouts for Sudafrican illegal immigrant little Elon the felon though……the biggest welfare queen ever in America…

2. Wtf is this non sense.

3. This assumes that Congress still functions over the next 4 years.

4. You lost me at CNN when I went to the article. Not a reputable news source containing facts. I don’t feel like spending hours researching for the truth.

5. If they target $2 trillion, and come up short by a few hundred billion, we’re still better off.

   Note how CNN is taking the side of the permanent bureaucracy

6. This writer of this article is obviously not from Silicon Valley. I don’t think he realizes we’ve been in these impossible situations, that every one says is untenable for decades now. We keep coming up with solutions that turn entire industries on their head. Elon and Vivek aren’t politicians trying to make deals. The Republicans have the backing of the voters to cut spending. Just because budgets are too difficult for democrats to understand, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t even try. That’s just a fucking stupid stance to take. 

7. Did anyone actually believe these two had any authority at all? If they did, they are beyond ignorant.

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