Will DOGE Rein in Spending?

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Lambert here: This is the PDF of a PowerPoint deck presented by the Manhattan Institute at Jeffries, an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City, and so I cannot quote directly from it. Here are some relevant screen shots.

My favorite: “• Deleting ‘equity’ from IRS tax handbook because DOGE thought it meant DEI.”

Lambert here: This deck must have gone everywhere; it’s hard to see how anybody could regard DOGE as a serious governing force, though of course they could be mere instruments or weaponry. Again, no mention of data exfiltration beyond Musk’s individual motivations.