Department of Government Efficiency

[eddiememphis]

https://reason.com/2024/11/13/saint-elon/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elo...ent-efficiency

"The Department of Government Efficiency will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before," wrote Trump in his statement announcing the picks. "It will become, potentially, 'The Manhattan Project' of our time."

"All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency," wrote Musk on X. "Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining."

Sounds good to me- especially if it actually works.

Like all of Trump's ideas, we have to wait to see if it is bluster or reality.

[3beansalad]

Imagine eliminating bureaucrats by creating a new department. Sounds counterproductive, but I appreciate the effort.

[BushMasterBoy]

The VA should form a college for disabled veterans (or qualified others) that want to study medicine. Add in some AI programming skills too. Make it available online. Quit blowing DEI in my face! It is a waste of money.

[.455_Hunter]

I am curious how the Department of Redundancy Department will work out.

[Clint45]

In the DoD alone, probably 20% of their budget goes to: waste, graft, fraud, overcharges, and kickbacks.

The last time the Pentagon was audited, IIRC they were unable to account for a few billion, then instead of digging deeper the matter was dropped.

Someone places an order for 50,000 overpriced widgets... which are never used... then 20 years later they're found in a warehouse... and then, of course, there are things like the infamous $15,000 toilet seat, lol.

[.455_Hunter]

In the DoD alone, probably 20% of their budget goes to: waste, graft, fraud, overcharges, and kickbacks.

The last time the Pentagon was audited, IIRC they were unable to account for a few billion, then instead of digging deeper the matter was dropped.

Someone places an order for 50,000 overpriced widgets... which are never used... then 20 years later they're found in a warehouse... and then, of course, there are things like the infamous $15,000 toilet seat, lol.

The problem with the DoD is that after auditing, the waste, graft, fraud, overcharges, and kickbacks will remain while important beneficial programs will get cut.

[buffalobo]

Imagine eliminating bureaucrats by creating a new department. Sounds counterproductive, but I appreciate the effort.

^^^This.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[hurley842002]

I see there is still a lot of butt hurt and TDS on the forum, not willing to consider new ideas or give anything a chance.

I?ve been working for the Federal Government for a bit now, have held mid level management positions (self demoted because of the dirty business). When you have multiple departments just within one geographical portion of the agency spending 10?s of thousands of dollars on bullshit at the end of the year, just so congress doesn?t cut their budget for the following year, I have a huge problem with that, and if we can get some form of checks and balances, I?m all for it.


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[Joe_K]

I would hardly call two people being assigned to a new oversight agency as counterproductive. Unless someone here has a better idea of what existing government oversight agency should instead have been utilized to reduce the sludge.

[Bailey Guns]

Elizabeth Warren made some snarky remark about the irony of having a department of efficiency with two people doing the job one person should be able to do. I think everyone knows she's a moron.

I'll be surprised if Musk takes a paycheck...like Trump in his first term. Either way, I think the benefits of having these two in charge will far, far outweigh the expense of hiring both of them to run the department.