DOGE Game Plan Delights GOP Caucus

DOGE aka “The Musk & Vivek Balanced Budget Slash Smaller Gov’t Show” impressed the pants off GOP Senators Thursday with their “art of the possible.” They even think big gov’t Dems will “come on board.” We’ll see.

There were apparently “hundreds” of ideas encapsulated in a 60-page game plan presented by Trump’s dream team tasked with reinventing government to serve more than be served. So says the title of the unofficial agency itself, “Department of Government Efficiency.” But, the still fermenting details discussed in a caucus of GOP lawmakers were not disclosed for obvious reasons. Yet, we’ve all read “reports” aka “leaks” about proposals like more generous tax cuts, far less gov’t regulations & red tape, mass deportations of felonious illegals, slashing of government programs (even elimination of the Dept of Education), across the board cuts in paying for things like $10K for a toilet seat, addressing law fare abuses & shipping many federal offices to new locations across the US instead of concentrated in the DC Swamp. And, oh, not only is the number of federal employees expected to shrink, but fed employees working from home might be an endangered species. Even changes to the daylight savings ritual is believed to be on the table.

But, while many of those ideas may fly with some if not many Democrats, the WSJ says “Musk & Ramaswamy are also focused on reversing, at least in part, the Biden administration’s moves to distribute money from a $400 billion clean-energy lending program inside the Energy Dept & manufacturing grants to companies such as Intel through legislation aimed at reviving US chip production.” Nor are they apparently happy with Biden’s recently giving another $6.6 billion to highly taxpayer subsidized EV manufacturer Rivian, a struggling Tesla competitor, which is losing over $100,000 for every vehicle it sells.

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