Summary
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, leading Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” are pushing for $2 trillion in federal budget cuts, which could target Social Security and Medicare.
While they claim to streamline government, critics argue billionaires like Musk and Ramaswamy are unaffected by these cuts, which could harm ordinary Americans who depend on these programs.
Despite Trump’s repeated promises to protect Social Security, skepticism remains over whether these cuts will influence Congress, where voter opposition to reducing benefits is strong.
Critics call the department’s influence limited but politically concerning.
…and all the voters who sat home because the democrats didn’t hold their hand all the way to the ballot box. Yeah, the neo-con platform sucked, but it wasn’t going to suck like trump being president.
As a disabled person who voted for Harris, I’d just like to say fuck every goddamn retard and some who voted for the Orange Idiot and I’m glad you’re all about to have your faces chewed off by the leopards. I can’t wait until you all start cannibalizing each other’s stuff in other to pay for healthcare and nursing homes, you shit chugging bug fuckers.
The department so efficient they need two bosses
Jerking off to plebs suffering is statistically proven to be more fun with a partner/friend/cellmate.
If I had to pay into that shit my whole life and I dont get to see any of it NOR do I get my money back I will cause such a fucken ruckus.
I’ve been paying for my pension since I was 17, I asked my best friend to give me a V-for-Vendetta-style Viking funeral if I die before getting to cash in enough pension payments.
Sigh, they’re being such Brian Thompsons
It would be a shame if Brian Thompsoned became a verb
So this guy is “ceo” of space x, Tesla, and twitter and now he’s running a play project that covers the entire government? This man must be the most useless scattered inefficient grifter in the world.
He seems to be a very efficient grifter, actually…
Get a little from multiple sources instead of a bunch from one.
I mean inefficient and a grifter. I’m well aware of how good at grifting he is
He must have the most surface level understanding of each of these things. I suspect he does very little and is there purely for show. Other informed people are the actual leaders, musk is simply a side show for the public.
Thing is that when something similar happened in France, all hell broke loose. Strikes went on for a long time. And even though the pension plan passed with a presidential degree rather than through parliament, the president became so unpopular, that the country is in shambles now
So Elon is running around with a human shield now.
Is it me or has the media just latched on to a completely made up government department? I don’t know why I have to say this but DOGE is not a real thing. If they want to create a new department then congress needs to write and pass a bill to do it. We also ALREADY have a department for this so the irony is just dripping here.
I did hear NPR at least clarify that it would not be a “department”, but instead just some advisory body.
They also pointed out that the closest analog would be the grace commission, but that was largely ignored in the end.
So they can make recommendations, but no authority to make them happen. Currently every sycophant Republican is talking up just how much they are in support of the vague concept of this body, but it’s quite likely that if they ever make specific recommendations, they are probably going to face much more rigorous objections. Republicans have a tendency to complain loudly about the abstract, but then not want to touch any specifics that might have blow back.
See also how they easily kept passing killing the ACA when they knew it would be vetoed and the second they actually knew it wouldn’t be vetoed they lost their appetite for it (admittedly they came close, but still it took them a long time to even try).
You still think that anything works the way we’re told it does? 🥲
Well at least spare some tinfoil with that attitude
FWIW, tinfoil doesn’t reflect well, and would actually focus what it’s purported (by the deficient/misled/both) to fortify against.
Well, the poorer the subjects are, the more desperate they are to work. Even for less. More money for the already rich. That is the plan, try to change my mind.
Bring it, bitches. Let’s get this show started and see how it pans out.
The only way Trump’s ‘efficiency’ department can trim $2 trillion from the federal budget is to cut a big hole in America’s retirement safety net.
Or they could cut like 1% from the departments of imperialism. Nobody would notice except like the toilet seat salesmen. They can’t even do an audit.
If/when this happens and these dipshits claim they didn’t vote for it…I’m going to keep this clip handy, just like driftglass and bluegal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxnsmsXYGJ4
Hat tip to the Professional Left Podcast…
Good thing we have a solution: Deny, Defend, Depose.
Lmao he’s really going hard on the whole kid as a human shield shtick
