The purpose is to destroy things Americans care about, so that eventually there's nothing left to care about or defend. And then the federal government can be cast aside as pointless.
This is a virulent anti-democracy movement. These are all popular programs being destroyed.
The people claiming to care about waste are untrustworthy liars. Trump added more to the debt than any prior president. He doesn't care about waste. His entire career is about spending other people's money and then screwing them.
$50,000 to Sri Lanka for “climate change” isn’t a “popular program.”
Paying dead people social security isn’t popular. Sending money to the Taliban isn’t popular.
If a program is popular, Congress should line-item fund it rather than allowing unelected bureaucrats give out grants at their whims.
When you say Trump doesn’t care about waste, that isn’t supported by the facts. The deficit isn’t about waste, fraud or abuse, it’s about overspending. They aren’t the same thing.
> $50,000 to Sri Lanka for “climate change” isn’t a “popular program.”
Is that $50,000 annual? Because if so that's less than a rounding error for the budget of almost any country, much less the US. The costs associated with ending this program (organizational, employee time) may even be higher than just continuing to pay it.
> Paying dead people social security isn’t popular.
Is there any public statistical data on this? As far as I know US social security does periodically verify if recipients are still alive. Of course some cases will slip through the cracks, but unless DOGE plans to individually track down every recipient and see them in person I don't see how they can solve this problem. This inevitably happens with pretty much any social security system, anywhere.
> Sending money to the Taliban isn’t popular.
Is there a source for this?
> When you say Trump doesn’t care about waste, that isn’t supported by the facts. The deficit isn’t about waste, fraud or abuse, it’s about overspending. They aren’t the same thing.
He could start by reducing overspending on the US' titanic corporate subsidies, but something tells me he won't.
This is a virulent anti-democracy movement. These are all popular programs being destroyed.
The people claiming to care about waste are untrustworthy liars. Trump added more to the debt than any prior president. He doesn't care about waste. His entire career is about spending other people's money and then screwing them.