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I agree the government is wasteful and could be streamlined, but that's not what Trump is doing. It's instead a revenge campaign against perceived enemies of t
by smt88 1y ago
I agree the government is wasteful and could be streamlined, but that's not what Trump is doing.
It's instead a revenge campaign against perceived enemies of the GOP, and they have actually increased YoY spending so far.
And all of that is orthogonal to the central issue that the entire exercise is unconstitutional and authoritarian. Congress is explicitly given the power to set spending.
- hooverd 1y agoCutting government waste sometimes requires hiring more "inefficient bureaucrats". Oftentimes the existing structure is that they're capital allocators for armies of consultants. Nobody wants to go after that waste. Hell, the "waste" they've gone after, for example the CFPB, was recouping money! Government waste is a facade for the real belief, a dislike for a competent administrative state.