Its not. they are just firing everyone they can. if they were being careful and looking at every line item they would not have accidentally fired the engineers that maintain our nuclear weapon initiating a mad scramble to rehire them. you cant have small team doing that level of audit in the time frames they have been in operation.

You can—you’re watching it happen. Sounds like the problem was swiftly remedied.

They wouldn't have fired them in the first place if they had been doing a line by line audit.

This is the equivalent of flipping every breaker in the box turn off one light in an apartment building. Sure the light turned off but you also turned off everyone's refrigerators, and the oxygen machine the old lady in apartment 3b needs to live. But you turned it back on the breakers of anyone who came down and complained... unfortunately the old lady died but she didn't make it down to complain. the question is who are Doge going to kill with their actions that wont get their complaints heard?

Nothing concerns me less than a quickly remedied mistake.

PS: at many time’s I’ve been successful using the “flip every breaker” strategy. A well designed oxygen machine has a battery and a fridge can tolerate a brief power outage.

> A well designed oxygen machine has a battery and a fridge can tolerate a brief power outage.

Sure, but you would at least do the due diligence to confirm that the case for Mrs Shelby before you YOLO it and wish for the best with her life on the line.

Many of the mistakes they are making are not being remedied, nor will the consequences be obvious in the short term.

There really isn't any upside for anyone in this whole thing except for Trump, Elon and their buddies. And they are breaking the law.

The farce of this whole thing is that none of the destructive cuts they've made will amount to a hill of beans compared to federal spending. They're jumping over hundred dollar bills to chase pennies.

(That's b/c none of this is actually about making government more efficient)

But that's _not_ what DOGE is doing.

What are they doing, then?

> What are they doing, then?

Un-reforming the civil service:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_reform_in_the_Un...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system