Will this DOGE thing work?

It's going to be used to shine a spotlight on government waste and recommend workforce reductions is my guess

Its effectively a think tank, that makes recommendations to the President.

It will come down to the President's ability to get the agenda passed and Congress's willingness to go with it.

Its better to have it than not have it, regardless of the outcome.

I hope it has a website where the public can provide input. I have an idea about something our agency does which is duplicative of another.

To cut positions Trump can do at least a couple of things. One is he can issue an Executive Order allowing Department Heads to reclassify employees from civil servants to political appointments - then Trump can fire those people at his will. This is the area that the Biden Administration has been working on to so-call "Trump-proof" the federal workforce. So it will be challenged, but ultimately it is clear that Trump will win on this - just hope it is sooner rather than later.

Second, he can tell Congress that there are "excess funds" in certain agencies' budgets that are not necessary to carry out the job. If Congress approves then the cuts/layoffs are made.

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If you enjoy paying $100 million for Rats being tested to see if they can grow balls or spending $250 million to see if monkeys in Africa can eat sunflowers in America without changing to the color of yellow - yea, I would say that the DOGE is going to be great

In other words, they are going to be cutting all of the stupid dumb shite out of the budget

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I saw a post on X about a government study spending millions on how Yoga affects rats!

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. I don't think there's going to be as much resistance as we might expect. IMHO

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I’d like to agree with you but I think all these politicians have pet projects and supporters they are indebted to and won’t be unselfish enough to stop the runaway gravy train. Not to mention Dems will fight Trump on anything and everything out of spite.

Remember these little guys?



The treadmill cost $47 to make. The government spent $3 million dollars on that study.

Their conclusion - yep, that's the way they swim.

What I want to know is what can he cut out that the next dumbass president can't just undo the progress he makes.

I'd really like to see some sort of results driven metric requirement for bills to pass and for them to remain law. For example, if the "inflation reduction act" is supposed to reduce inflation, and it doesn't succeed, it needs to be automatically rolled back.

Huge piece of this is who runs Treasury. You must have someone that will refuse to send out funds. If you put some Wall Street / Establishment lackey at Treasury, you probably get nothing done.