DEI must die: All federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be fired!

@sree251 says
Then why is DOGE so inaccurate and sloppy??? Why doesn't Musk wait until he has all the facts instead of publishing tons of errors?? DOGE's error rate makes it a completely unreliable source. Here's just a handful of examples.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/19/doge-said-it-cut-8-billion-contract-8-million/79176949007/

The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.





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@sree251 says DEAD WRONG.
Bird flu researchers were fired; now tRump is trying to hire them back.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302019/bird-flu-usda-firings-reversed

@Reason10 whines There were no US poor people until the 1960s????
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

The budget of the US dept of Agriculture is $200 billion per year – there's a TON of welfare for agribusiness there. The 2023 US Defense budget was $916 billion – welfare for defense contractors. And their stockholders. $916 billion is more than the next NINE countries' defense budgets combined.

tRump''s Covid era welfare was 10.2 million Paycheck Protection Program loans that were forgiven or partially forgiven. With average forgiveness $72,000, that works out to $734 billion in loan forgiveness welfare to business owners.

If we're a welfare state, @Reason10, the welfare is going to big business and their stockholders.

And what about welfare for citizens??

In 2023, the federal government spent $1.35 trillion on Social Security, which was 22% of the total federal budget. That's money people paid in over their working lives and are now withdrawing. Medicare, $848 billion in 2023, is another program where people paid in over their working lives.

Thus, the largest part of the budget is non-discretionary spending; driven by payroll deductions, NOT income tax.

As of 2023, SNAP spending was $112.8 billion; TANF's block grant stands at a fixed $16.5 billion per year. The total federal budget in 2023 was $6.2 trillion. So aid to the poor - what @Reason10 considers welfare - amounts to 2.1% of the total federal budget.

And of course this discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about where the money comes FROM. Taxes are roughly proportional to GDP. And the vast majority of our GDP comes from BLUE AREAS.


@Convivial

卐LON now demands a weekly "accomplishment" email from every government employee. tRump's newly appointed FBI director Kash Patel has already told his people to "pause any responses" and not to send in any such email. The infighting has begun.

Reports quote Patel as follows:

How do you define efficiency?

Are millions of dollars doesn't on research with no outcome consider inefficient or merely furthering knowledge.

The space race in the 50s and 60s was considered inefficient by many at the time but led to gains later

That sounds like it would be a war crime. Which, obviously, is the least of the problems with these attacks on the country by its own President, but still.

Could someone get the crayons out an explain what that has to do with DEI.

At least the unemployment checks won't be apart of this government waste, and the unemployment rate skyrockets at the same time. 🙄

Every single trumper who loses their jobs. ..retirements. medical for their families are getting exactly what they voted for. The rest caught in this coup has our sympathies. But of course to the highly educated trumpers. . .like the one making this post. ..somehow they think President Musk and the felon are only firing Dems. Duh!!!!

I think comparing it to a scorched earth tactic is an extreme stretch but hey you do you boo🙄🤣🤣🤣

Krasnov is doing the job he was instructed to do.

Just another ideological purge.

Interesting how you think the target of these scorched earth tactics is the woke and not the country itself.

Those consultants that the Trump administration hired are really doing their jobs!!!

You truly are bonkers.

I would like to see Musk explain (truthfully) just what he and his work experience kids have been doing for the reportedly $8m a day he is extracting from the taxpayer.

Most probably cant write a cogent sentence