jacob_harris

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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
Thank you for the feedback. I called certain members of the DOGE staff wreckers, because that is precisely what they've been deployed to do. For instance, if you read about DOGE's activities at USAID or CFPB or the National Endowm
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
Thank you for the feedback! I decided to not tackle the lies about "savings" because the math was so bad and it was quite frankly being covered much better by other organizations and sites. I also don't want to perpetuate the
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
It sounds like you are proposing some of the oversight already done by the Government Accountability Office. I hear where you are coming from, but the whole point of the Constitution is that a king does not get to determine how the budget i
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
I've heard of one professor summarizing it as "would you want to take an airplane flight that has only exactly the amount of fuel needed to get to your destination? What about if the fuselage didn't have any extra rivets? Rea
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
There definitely has been a pattern of shoddy behavior, but it's been difficult to find a smoking gun of DOGE exfiltrating the data at many agencies. I am looking to see if there are more revelations to come out of DOGE's activiti
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
Far from it. There has already been ample reporting on how inflated and distorted DOGE's savings are (for instance, they made rudimentary errors in understanding how blanket purchase agreements work and also counted the whole amounts o
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
This has been unfortunately necessary since DOGE has worked to really avoid any transparency or accountability. If FOIA or legal filings have more information, I do add them, but I always provide the source citation for you to know.
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
It is biased. I do not think we can "both sides" the impact of DOGE here and I think the site makes its case for why it should be seen as a destructive force.
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by jacob_harris 7mo ago
It's very common for politicians to point to federal staffing levels as some sort of measure of waste and bloat, but those numbers have been increasingly deceptive since the era of Reagan. Essentially, government has grown in its budge