The Purge

[Dude#1279435]

And what will he do with autism list? Form a testing group to cure them?

Here's to hoping it's a private list.

 

[trochetier]

Cost of DOGE - $135 billion this fiscal year.

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs

An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.

www.nytimes.com

Never mind the actual cost in future years from having to contract out the same jobs. Delayed actions costing businesses time and money.

 

[trochetier]

So much did DOGE really save?

DOGE claims $160B savings, but costs 135B net =$25B. This does not include legal costs to defend the many law suits filed against the cuts. Musk's initial claim $2T revised down to $1T.

DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says.

The push by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal funding will cost taxpayers money, nonpartisan group finds. Here's why.

www.cbsnews.com

Let's not forget the mental and financial stresses of the disrupted lives of the hundreds of Federal workers and their families including children. Also, the inevitable inefficiencies in the Federal government from the lost know how, institutional memory and experience of the middle and lower level employees who gets the day to day work done. The long term damage to the American innovation leadership in the world from the cuts to research grants leading to abrupt shutdowns of critical basic science and medical research at the Universities and firings of world class scientists at NIH, CDC etc.

If this is Conservatism in the USA we are in BIG trouble.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Cost of DOGE - $135 billion this fiscal year.

Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs

An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.

www.nytimes.com

Never mind the actual cost in future years from having to contract out the same jobs. Delayed actions costing businesses time and money.

Heaven help us if they sell government building just to lease them back.

 

[Mr._Clark]

It looks like the administration may well be violating court orders.

>>>A federal judge in Boston said on Tuesday that the Trump administration had apparently violated an order he issued in April by flying a Burmese immigrant to South Sudan without first giving him enough time to challenge his removal over fears about being sent to a country not his own.<<<

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-deportations-south-sudan.html

On the face of it, this appears to be an escalation of the administration's power struggle with the federal court system. I'm wondering if Trump is b*tt hurt about the recent Supreme Court decisions, and he is now setting up a full blown constitutional battle with the federal courts (at the direction of the idiot Stephen Miller). That's speculative on my part, of course (not the idiot part).

 

[Mr._Clark]

Trump has a corrupting influence on his lawyers and many of them did not have the moral integrity to resist (some did, though). Mr. Bove was a recent defence lawyer for Trump and now we know the level of his moral integrity is in his new capacity acting U.S. deputy attorney general: quite low.

This is just bizarre:

>>>President Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate Emil Bove III, the polarizing and widely feared top Justice Department official responsible for strong-arm tactics in enacting Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda, to be a federal appeals judge.

Mr. Bove, 44, a former criminal defense lawyer for Mr. Trump, would fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.<<<

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/trump-emil-bove-judge.html

Given Trump's (almost) complete control of the GOP in the senate, it's quite possible he will be confirmed.

 

[mtrycrafts]

This is just bizarre:

>>>President Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate Emil Bove III, the polarizing and widely feared top Justice Department official responsible for strong-arm tactics in enacting Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda, to be a federal appeals judge.

Mr. Bove, 44, a former criminal defense lawyer for Mr. Trump, would fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.<<<

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/trump-emil-bove-judge.html

Given Trump's (almost) complete control of the GOP in the senate, it's quite possible will be confirmed.

Sad day indeed. So much corruption there.

 

[Mr._Clark]

In MAGA world "Thou shalt not tell the truth" is apparently rule number 1:

>>>“I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,” Lavingia told Fast Company in the piece, which also noted that he noticed the number of mission-driven people working in government. “But honestly, it’s kind of fine—because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.” . . .

“In meetings with the Office of the CTO, I discovered ambitious ongoing software projects like reducing veterans' benefits claims processing from 133 days to under a week,” wrote Lavingia. “I also learned that several of VA's code repos were already open-source, and the world's first electronic health record system, VistA, was built by VA employees over 40 years ago.”<<< (emphasis added)

VA-based DOGE associate gets ‘the boot’ after publicly discussing his work

Sahil Lavingia detailed in a personal blog how the reality of hunting inefficiencies at the Department of Veterans Affairs was not what he had expected.

www.govexec.com