President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by reviewing its budget and operations from top to bottom.
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They're both hyperactive 'children', though Musk has advantage in being able to read & write. DON the CON is functionally illiterate. There is NO way he sat his Wharton exams. WHO did. His sister knew. Dr. Mary Trump probably found out.
DJT's progeny KNOW he's UNFIT but profit from his ineptitude
Pedo attorney generals, a russian spy as director of national intelligence, dumbshit news host as secretary of defense, and oligarchs positioned to rob us blind, but don't worry, guys, they are making it leaner and more efficient.
If nothing else, at least you are consistent CNN. 🙄
Headline should be that they are destroying our nation from the inside. This is going to devastate so many aspects of American life and turn the country into a hellscape. Things the federal govt does:
- processes social security payments
- runs Medicare & Medicaid, ensuring providers get paid
- inspected food production to ensure safety
- many things to ensure the medications we take are safe
- the entire highway system
- the military
- public health stuff like disease surveillance
- operating our national park system
- cancer research and clinical trials for cancer and rare diseases
This list goes on and on, but these are the kinds of things that could cease to exist. Even the threat of massive reforms are going to cause scientists and doctors to flee the public sector, which will have a chilling effect on much of this work.
Doctors have been leaving the public sector for the past 4 years. And those doctors that are left won’t take Medicare nor Medicare patients because they lose too much money. New Mexico has a severe shortage of doctors not due to cost of living but the crime has pushed them out.
To be clear, I am referring to doctors who work for agencies like NIH and the FDA doing research, not those who provide clinical care. Doctor shortages around the country for clinical care are another issue entirely. But yes, clinical physicians are going to go where it's nice to live.
Putting Elon in charge of the purse strings is letting the fox be in charge of the hen house. He literally gets billions in contracts. Now, he gets to decide who gets them. I guess him and his friends will make a killing again. Since he will be outside the gov. No accountability.
This assignment would be more efficiently carried out by consultants and not by angry pseudo politicians eager to prove their usefulness and thereby recommending sub-optimal structures, which in their mind, would save costs.
In other words, they will cut anything that puts money in the pockets of the middle class to make up for the tax cuts for the rich. Buckle up MAGA, Daddy Igor Donny Trump is about to take your poor fat jean butts for a ride.
This headline is absurd. They’re gonna cut necessary services, and keep anything that feeds the corporate trough. Nevermind the massive conflict of interest of Musk being anywhere near this.
Now this is terrifying. So many of us that rely on our Social Security and Medicare. Having a billionaire with his hand on the ax at the chopping block is just flipping terrifying.
JUST STOP, Everything that you do, every post, every headline, everything is some mealy mouth sane washing of a malignant narcissist that plans on destroying democracy. You're the worst. This is why CNN will cease to exist.
I suppose but the guy can hardly run his own businesses. Not sure how he’s going to make time do this. Aside from the fact none of these agencies are going to willingly work with him.
Reports coming out of Tesla and SpaceX agree that the businesses do just great, as long as you can keep Elon distracted enough not to try and get involved with any of the actual business that's going on.
Probably even faster, since there'll be all the severance payouts for the people who actually know how to do their jobs getting kicked out, and the onboarding costs of people who have no idea what they're doing but do know how to salute Trump really well.
Elon will ignore the Federal Warn Act, as will Vivek. There will be lawsuits. Between severance pay, lawsuits and unemployment benefits they will spend more. The rehiring will come with the next administration that has to fix all of this.
RFK jr.'s already planning to replace 600 at the National Institutes of Health, so that he can install "ideologically pure" recruits in their place on day one.
The cost of that alone, and the fact they can't actually fire anyone on their first day in office, doesn't seem to have crossed their mind.
A country can't just print money when it needs it. Otherwise its value declines and central bank will increase interest rate to prevent further decline. Higher interest rate leads to higher prices on everything.
Do Trump and Musk just sit in a room telling each other how smart they are and how manly they are? Do they compete to see who can tell the other how they are better than all the other people? Are they the Romeo and Juliet story we have been waiting for?
Once they make it leaner what are they doing to do with the funds saved? Can trump really live with the speculation that putin is in fact the richest man in the world? I question that.
Has Trump given unelected Musk the opportunity to sweep away checks and balances he doesn't like in order to give him the freedom to do what he wants when he wants with no accountability to anyone? Oh yeah, and some cost savings for 'the people'.
Could you please stop making everything sound like it's just even close to normal? His appointments are going to destroy the country. Inform the people about it. smh
Yall are the worst! Why does MSM keep painting this man’s destruction of our government as something normal?! He literally has the world’s richest man running a government organization? This is not NORMAL!!!
Their only ambition is power, nothing more. These two don't care about Americans or America's future.
Power and (more and more) money is the only thing that drives them.
Statements like this are why I unfollowed y’all on Twitter and why I won’t follow you here. Anyone can see, with the appointments he’s made already, that they intend to break the entire government.
Are you kidding with this idiocy? trump and musk's only ambitions are to enrich themselves while destroying the federal government. That's not an opinion - it's fact.
Musk reviewing the country’s budget and operations: Federal funding for SpaceX? Taking a hard look at the Department of Education: Reverse all the student loan forgiveness programs? Kid’s education of “Left-wing propaganda” to be reviewed…science, how Musk got rich? Can I review the budget also?
Why don’t they start by reducing their salaries? I’d love to see most politicians do that. And no government subsidized healthcare! They should stand by their capitalistic views. Zero handouts!
It’s the end of the US as we know it with these two clowns. The middle class will hurt the most. Who ever voted for Trump is in for a rude awakening. They say they can’t afford anything now… just wait.
I don’t think they’re doing what you think they’re doing, guys. D.O.G.E. seems like a big, ol’ opportunity to grift taxpayer dollars and deprive folks of necessary benefits. The damn thing is gonna be run by *two* people and it’s focused on “efficiency”?
You used to be honest CNN, now you peddle this unserious uncritical thinking headline to try and appear unbiased to either side but one side is completely dishonest and still says you're fake news. Grow a spine and call a spade a spade
CNN talks about "leaner and more efficient", but completely misses the fact that it will be two people running it this committee. Elon and Vivek Ramaswamy.
CNN missed a big opportunity to ask why an efficiency program needs TWO leaders
I get why people want to believe this, and there likely is some waste, but this is clearly a veiled attempt to gut benefits for the elderly, poor, & disabled in order to reduce oligarch's tax burden, make people more desperate, & in return reduce the value of their labor in one fell swoop.
THIS is why we are in this mess. This headline in NO WAY reflects the actual situation. Makes it sounds like they are a couple of CFOs reviewing spreadsheets, in good faith. The media has failed the country.
They have no idea how the government works, how government funding works, what various agencies do, and what is controlled by law vs policy. They need extensive education before they try to do anything. (Also, Musk’s first list of “outrages” showed his complete ignorance.)
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DJT's progeny KNOW he's UNFIT but profit from his ineptitude
If nothing else, at least you are consistent CNN. 🙄
That's an interesting thing to call a dart board and personal hit-list.
- processes social security payments
- runs Medicare & Medicaid, ensuring providers get paid
- many things to ensure the medications we take are safe
- the entire highway system
- the military
- public health stuff like disease surveillance
- operating our national park system
- cancer research and clinical trials for cancer and rare diseases
Fixed it for you @Cnn
Step 1 - Cut public funding
Step 2 - Send that money to Musks Government projects
He is literally stealing our tax dollars
Yeah...
Hopefully this will be Vivek's new job.
Trust me, the government has that covered already
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19195192/who-errol-musk-stepdaughter-jana-bezuidenhout/
Who is Jana Bezuidenhout's mother Heide?
Troubles arose in the Musk family after it was revealed in 2018 that Errol had fathered a child with his stepdaughter Jana.
The cost of that alone, and the fact they can't actually fire anyone on their first day in office, doesn't seem to have crossed their mind.
You are complicit in what happens next. Do not forget that.
Election fraud
Power and (more and more) money is the only thing that drives them.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/14/2286319/-Why-you-should-delete-your-X-account
Progeny are too busy GRIFTING. Toxic family dynamic to be sure.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frontotemporal-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354737
http://viewsandobservations.com/2024/11/07/millions-are-understandably-worried/
CNN missed a big opportunity to ask why an efficiency program needs TWO leaders
Also look at the huge #military budget. Cutting that will be good not only for balancing the budget, but bringing in worldwide peace as well.