9/ "- Feed sensitive government databases & records into AI, try to figure out what could be automated (Happening at Education Dep't, eg)
- Put allies in charge of spending chokepoints (Treasury payments system)
- Put allies in charge of spending chokepoints (Treasury payments system)
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Now you have DOGE allies in position to implement:
- Cuts to all spending viewed outside bounds of Trump's EOs
- Automation of core agency functions
- Pullback on federal spending deemed fraudulent
- Deletion of agencies/departments (USAID, CFPB)
Pretty much democrats cannot punish populists if they're playing by democratic standards and according to rule of law.
This happened already with Jan 6 and with Trump and will happen again.
To me the biggest outstanding question now is what happens if/when the courts say much of this is illegal, as is widely believed by senior U.S. officials
We're seeing the same playbook over and over again, across federal agency after federal agency
Trump is pushing both RTO and theyre planning to liquidate something like 50% of nonmilitary federal property
This makes sense when you see it as a twin strategy to increase attrition
If law doesn't apply, whose to say you can protect your ownership? That's what Dems should signal hard.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/08/doge-musk-goals/