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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by throw0101d on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:59AM (#43113661)
> Trump tasked "DOGE" with reviewing government spending across it's 400+ agencies, and coming up with recommendations on how to reduce wasteful spending.

"Make recommendations" ?

Firing the folks that maintain nuclear weapons sounds like an action, not a recommendation:

* https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federa...

Firing the folks dealing with bird flu sounds like an action, not a recommendation:

* https://apnews.com/article/usda-firings-doge-bird-flu-trump-...

Then there's the folks making a list of all the agents who were pulled off other tasks and told to investigate Jan 6:

* https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-compili...

Also firing a whole bunch of folks at the FAA even though it's already short staffed:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9y1e1kpjo

Seems to be it's less about finding savings and more about blindly purging people with no regard to how useful or inefficient things actually are.

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