By Ryan McMaken
We are unlikely to see any significant departure from the overall trend of rising spending and deficits.
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69 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 5h
So DOGE might not have worked?
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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 5h
Depends what they were trying to do, I suppose
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 5h
Fair enough. They exposed and eliminated some fraud and grift but didn't have an impact on the deficit.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 5h
I'm not sure exactly what to credit DOGE with because this whole administration came in with a very broad short term strategy.
As far as I can tell, none of the bombshell discoveries from DOGE actually turned out to be anything, but there are a quarter of a million more former feds than there had been and that's clearly a positive. There are also billions of dollars in canceled grants and contracts, which is also to the good.
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 6h
Doge was just a distraction?
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 5h
I haven't made up my mind about what DOGE was.
It may have been a smash-and-grab to gain access to confidential datasets and it may have been a failed genuine effort to gut the government.
It certainly didn't accomplish much on the latter front.
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