DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data

Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by wat10000 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:19AM (#43114293)

> overhead and ideological reprogramming

I despair at the thought process that crams these two things together.

2.5% overhead would be really good. Most charities don’t come close.

“Ideological reprogramming,” whatever that actually means, would be completely different.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by jpcom on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:02PM (#43119434)

It's called the US Agency for International Development. Everyone seems to think "AID" is a word here. It is not, it is an acronym.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by wat10000 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:13PM (#43120279)

OK, I'm aware, not sure what that has to do with anything here.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by jpcom on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:38PM (#43120572)

It looks like USAID had 4B of the 40B budget actually reach endpoint users, which would make the overhead closer to 90% [1], not 97.5% like I originally estimated.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/67b7a0c4-bf48-8011-9997-41b350dd0b...

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by wwtw on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:17PM (#43121031)

Reading this gpt answer: > In fiscal year 2022, nearly 90% of USAID's expenditures were allocated to international contracting partners

How are you figuring that none of that is reaching endpoint users? E.g. I imagine the International Red Cross could be such a partner.

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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data by wat10000 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:37PM (#43121281)

Seriously? Not even your own linked conversation supports this assertion, even though you tried to lead it there.

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