Two-fer: needless death and compromising our influence abroad.

And robbing the tax payers blind with the help of the prior administration. It is called accountability.

Do your research on what has and has not been cut.

You progressives love to tout yourselves as more educated than conservatives, but then post wholly inaccurate fearporn like this.

Precisely exactly

think about it, Getts. issuing a waiver to programs that provide food while firing or putting on leave most of the people who administer those programs is a pointless gesture.

Stay with me here. Maybe, juuuuust maybe all that overhead was unnecessary grift.

Maybe the staff that remains can handle the workload. Or should be able to, and if they can't, need relaxed with more effective people willing to do the work.

This sort of thing happens all the time in the corporate world, yet never seems to happen in the public sector.

Until now.

well maybe, but maybe not. i work in a state-run university and we are all overworked (doing more with less, they call it, and adding extra tasks every year). but let's say you're right and that some federal programs are fatty. shouldn't a new administration and a brand new office of efficiency be doing a detailed analysis first before instituting sweeping cuts that affect many people's lives? it's what my old Republican papa would call the ass-backwards approach to management.

Two fold response.

1. Optics. The shock and awe is a smart tactic because the detractors perpetually claim Trump is all bluster. Look at all the sniffling over egg prices and Ukraine. Releasing the DOGE with a mission of immediate results not only shapes the narrative but also, y'know, gets results. But that's political strategery and not my favorite thing.

2. Urgency. Trump has four years. A slow methodical navel-gaze only allows nonsupporters to run out rhe clock. Case and point, all the Mueller garbage and impeachment hearings. Trump, naievly, tried to play by the establishments rulea last time. My assumption is that now he sees the folly of doing that again. The country needs to be handled like a patient who just stumbled into the ER, bleeding and vomiting. Stabilize first, observe as you go, diagnose second.

Musk already said DOGE won't be perfect. They'll assess as they go and turn funding back on where it's merited. A reporter tried to call him out on the error in the DOGE claim $50MM was spent on condoms for Gaza. Oops. Turns out those were condoms for Mozambique. Musk admitted the error, but then pointed out that $50M in condoms is ridiculous no matter who the recipient.

i'm still not a Liberal. i want you to try to avoid defining yourself in terms of a conservative/liberal dichotomy. here are some phrases you can practice with your friends:

1) you know, Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review, so he's always been hard-working and talented.

2) i feel bad about Trump firing a lot of regular people just so he can look good.

3) hopefully, some day soon, we'll apologize to other Americans of a more moderate political stance than our own and get back to doing things the right way.

once these feel natural to you, you can come up with your own examples of such things that normal people say.

omigosh. you're right. i'm not a conservative either. semi-good job.