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There's plenty of waste and fraud, as there was under Trump's first term and Biden's. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/12/17/waste_of_the_

• yostrovs 2y ago
  Many do not acknowledge this and seem to believe our government runs like a well oiled machine. It's as though they never had to actually deal with the bureaucracy and never noticed anything odd.
• cratermoon 2y ago
  No one is claiming there's no waste and fraud, that exists in any large organization. As the article notes, the efforts so far don't seem to have demonstrably found and eliminated it. "they seem to be using very nonspecific and unsubstantiated allegations of fraud to justify a massive overhaul of specific government agencies. "
• insane_dreamer 2y ago
  Of course. And that's why there are investigations and also Inspector Generals to watch for this stuff. (Except those guys just got fired.) Investigating and fixing instances of fraud is one thing -- and a good thing. Axing departments and firing a bunch of people based on ideology (DOE, USAID) or retribution (DOJ), or loyalty tests (OBM, etc.) has nothing to do with "fixing waste and fraud".