There were already people in the government "reducing waste, fraud and abuse." Trump fired them and replaced them with one unelected asshole who's canceling programs he personally doesn't like and awarding himself government contracts
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Before the Musk version of Trump it was relatively difficult for appointed US officials to line their pockets, and that was a wasted opportunity. Fight government waste!
It is a grift, a quid pro quo. They’re not even trying to hide it. They fired everyone who could have gotten in their way. If Trump wanted to really save money he would stop giving Musk $40,000,000,000.00 for his exploding space ships. They’re not saving any money …..
They’re just taking it from ordinary taxpayers who struggle to survive. The problem with billionaires is that they don’t feel the pain of not being able to provide for your family. Yet most are happy to take more than they need. How much money does a person need?
We literally already had an entire group tasked with doing this. WE ALREADY KNOW WHERE THE WASTE FRAUD & ABUSE IS. They’ve been INCAPABLE of passing a financial audit FOR EIGHT YEARS. But since Elon is LITERALLY a war profiteer, so looking at the DOD is a non-starter.
He didn’t ‘set out to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in the government’. He set out to wield power. Power he purchased for $250M so he can take more from the government for himself and his hobbies.
“Programs such as ‘Social Security’ and ‘Medicare’ are clearly unnecessary spending… we should be giving this money to corporations and the military instead!!”
“Waste also includes incurring unnecessary costs resulting from inefficient or ineffective practices..” like illegally firing a bunch of people, realizing they’re essential and having to spend time tracking them down to try to re-hire them.
I wonder how much taxpayer money has gone to the government's legal fees and settlements they've had to pay out after violating people's rights just to grind a conservative axe. I bet that's orders of magnitude more waste than all the scientific studies Trump has badly summarized, combined.
I mean we should have this information available since DJT issued a memorandum “requiring radical transparency regarding wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars by the federal government.”
The new cabinet officials don't really know what their departments do so when someone said it's full of waste, fraud and abuse, they were thrilled that this "brilliant businessman" was going to clean it up before they had to "run" it. Now they're wondering if they'll get paid to run the nothing.
Canceling programs he personally doesn't like would be bad enough, but he's also randomly destroying anything that confuses him (and he's very easily confused), anything that uses any of the nono words on the "free speech absolutist"'s list (regardless of context), etc.
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Musk is an UNELECTED official.
Get. Him. OUT. And. Stop. REASONING. ANYTHING.