But looking back, what was DOGE really all about? Not saving money! Spending and the deficit are both up, and much of DOGE’s claimed savings turned out to be made up entirely. Not efficiency! More than 26,000 of the experts DOGE fired had to be hired right back, sometimes within 24 hours, like when it fired the engineers of America’s nuclear arsenal.
DOGE was more like a smash-n-grab: gutting government agencies, eliminating about 300,000 government jobs, ending research, control-F-deleting “DEI” words, and terrorizing civil servants like the Heritage Foundation and Russ Vought have always wanted.
Then the grab: Musk and his dozens of minions accessed and exported mountains of government data…
Lambert here: Wonkette frames “the grab” so clearly and precisely, and yet this isn’t a part of “the narrative” at all, oddly, or not.
….including people’s sensitive Social Security and IRS information, putting it on their personal, un-secure laptops. Some of it went to third parties, like into Palantir’s Foundry database system. And data from the National Labor Relations Board went to Russia, said a whistleblower, followed by DOGE minions sloppily trying to cover their tracks.
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