That's how democracy dies

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.Musk promised $2 trillion in savings. What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.They’re counting on us all to forget. - Mike Levin

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