Summary
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, leading Trump’s new DOGE, plan to cut $2 trillion in federal spending by ending remote work for federal employees and monitoring their productivity.
GOP Senator Joni Ernst supports the plan, citing remote work as wasteful, though federal data shows most eligible roles still require significant on-site work.
Critics argue the initiative overstates the issue and lacks enforcement power, as DOGE is an advisory body with no direct authority over government operations.
The Party of Small Government has created a second government, to govern the first government. I wonder if they even appreciate the irony.
Conservatives don’t get irony.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Yes, and that was the plan all along
yeah like they have functioning brains
“Remote work is wasteful.”
Instead of hiring employees you trust to do their job, let’s pay for building rent, utilities, cleaning services, transportation and whatever else.
If you really want to cut waste and care about the environment, lean into remote and pull your head out of your ass, Elon.
What the fuck. Why did you think he cares about waste and the environment?!? Have you not been paying attention?
Remote workers took advantage of the companies they worked for and most definitely did less. I base that opinion on being an essential worker that had to pick up the slack from all the ‘work’ from home people.
My opinion, also insignificant, is that those who can’t work remote rarely work when in the office. If somebody doesn’t work, management has to intervene, whether they are in person or remote doesn’t matter.
Anecdotes are not important
I’ve got news for him. A large percentage of federal employees do fuckall when they’re in the office. The remote part has little to do with it.
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And then the companies are staffed by people who do fuck-all in the office, especially middle managers and c-suite people. But now their jobs are shittier and pay less money (except for upper management, who now probably makes more). So the middle class shrinks.
And now it’s on the customers’ dime. Which is cheap for rich people, but more expensive for middle class people and unaffordable for poor people.
Then Musk and Trump and their friends get even more rich, and life gets harder for most Americans.
In other words: “The American Way™”
Yep. DOGE is a scheme to externalize. With a different president shame would stop it, but I guess we are past that.
You’ll get a free Tesla from based Elon and he’ll make every American pay for it with taxes.
“What I don’t understand is that you’ve been working since I think what, about six this morning, yet such a small pile of hinges.”
omg I so want a federal job now. I will so technically blow out whatever metrics.
