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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy reveal DOGE plans for mass firings and drastic cuts
(www.independent.co.uk)
500b? I thought I heard them say 2 Trillion last time…
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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And how much of the "savings" will be recouped in the form of tax cuts for billionaires?
Only 300% ! /s
They need to find workers for the jobs that 20m soon-to-be-deported immigrants do. Totally perfect plan! /jk
$500 billion in federal spending cuts.
defunding organizations like Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting
- Planned Parenthood received about $148 million in 2021 and much of that was for providing COVID-19 vaccinations. No idea how much they're getting right now but I know it's less.
- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a budget of $535 million for 2025.
If they cut both entirely that's 0.14% of that $500 billion in cuts they're promising.
It's .14%, but yea still nothing.
Oops: Forgot that "multiply by 100" step haha. I'll fix it 👍
These people aren't in government.
They haven't been appointed to anything.
There isn't a new federal agency called DOGE.
Stop giving Trump all this shit.
Congress creates agencies, not a president elect. And it takes years to create an agency. A new agency created today probably wouldn't promulgate its first lawful regulation for two years.
The idea that any of this Musk shit is actually happening is Republican fan fiction.
Wrong.
Trump will create doge via executive order and the supreme court will rubber stamp it as an official act and therefore completely legal and cool.
It can't write a check without an act of Congress.
Trump had to reward two of his biggest bootlickers with plum jobs but didn't want them to have actual government positions, so his team came up with this. They'll make recommendations that are already in the planbook and if the courts block all their nonsense they can throw them under the bus as a distraction.
Sounds right to me.
This reminds me of one of the jokes from an old episode Fairlyodd Parents where they make Cosmo the "Rice President", it sounds official but is functionally meaningless. They needed to give him a promotion, but not the power to do anything.
You seem to think process matters to them at all.
Not to them, no. Hopefully the institutions survive.
They’re going to save $500B per year? That’s great! Analysts estimate that it would only cost between $11B-$30B to house all unhoused people in the US.
https://www.sciotoanalysis.com/news/2024/1/16/what-would-it-cost-to-end-homelessness-in-america
Unfortunately, they already dog-eared that money for the gestapo, and the only ‘housing’ they plan to provide are undocumented immigrant/migrant camps.
Good I've been thinking for a while that the supreme court's penchant for monarchy is what's really going to hasten their slide into illegitimacy. I'm sure firing half of DC will not cause the city where they work and maybe live to riot.
Its notnjust DC. There are millions of federal workers all across the 50 states. I cant think of a better way to mobilize millions of voters into direct action.
We need to seize it though. Call them for what they are; job destroyers.
Do you think this will matter? Dude isn't going to be elected again, he's doing a putsch removing anyone in the army that isn't loyal to him AND he's legally allowed to kill anyone anywhere. Do some riots against armed drones and see what happens.
It all matters. If they kill a bunch of soccer moms who worked for HHS or some shit while out protesting, that will radicalize people more quickly than Karl Marx could ever dream of.
Are they going to defund the overwhelmingly wasteful MIC? Are they cutting back on Elmo's massive walfare checks?
Surely that would help the economy 🙄
Could just cut military spending and waste