DOGE is a good idea, I'm not too sure about the planning and execution.

There isn't a sensible person in the US who doesn't want to see the bloated federal government reduced and reduced substantially, but the process must be well planned, it must be metered and the American people should have a general idea of the plan and process. Just haphazardly cutting federal employees seems performative and in some cases makes DOGE come across as a fricking joke, we don't want that. We want this hard fought battle to get Trump back into the presidency to have lasting benefits for the American people

The general idea of cutting the federal government by 30-40-50% over a 5-10 year period would require shifting certain responsibilities/programs of the federal government back to the state level and that means each state will be required to have their own planning in place to assume those responsibilities/programs that are currently being administered by the federal government.

States will need to coordinate with Team Trump and prepare to handle their own educational system and requirements, their own farm policies, their own environmental policies and enforcement, etc. Will there still be some national standards that all states must meet? Most likely but it will not require 363 million square feet of office space (currently under the control of the GSA) and 2.5 million federal employees with an average salary of $110K including benefits.

Musk wielding the DOGE chainsaw was pretty funny but in reality the attempt to significantly reduce the size of the federal behemoth is serious business and it's going to take very savvy, very smart and very serious people to ever have a chance of becoming reality.