Musky and Smarmy: There’s a rude awakening in store for the DOGE bros

“Removing $2T in annual spending will be exceedingly difficult without touching mandatory spending, which would require lawmakers to make the tough choices they have been either unwilling or unable to make,” Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at BTIG, wrote in a recent report to clients.

It was 1982, and President Ronald Reagan’s Grace Commission began its quest to get rid of hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

Much like Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” the advisory board led by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Grace Commission had no authority to implement changes, only to advise.

And after a couple of years of work, the Grace Commission’s 150-plus members persuaded Congress to enact exactly zero of its recommendations.

There’s a way, though it’s not always legal, for the president to defy Congress and just refuse to spend money lawmakers have allocated. It’s called impoundment.

“My threat level for DOGE’s recommendations making it through Congress is relatively low,” said Bobby Kogan, the senior director for federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning policy research group. “My threat level for them doing some things illegally, unilaterally, is incredibly high.”

But we wanna hurt people! We wanna! We wanna! We wanna! And we want to *right now*! Daaaaady!

Musky and Smarmy stand a good chance of being CEO'd if they yank Veteran's benefits (which appears to be first up on their fantasy chopping block).

Such assholes Such “Big Shots” Waiting to see them in Nazi SS uniforms-that would be fun-those cool hats and dark aviator sunglasses!

Laughable.

It's always the people who never served, who trash the vet benefits and want to cut military, first.

Clueless cunts.

he is a pedophile he likes to feel that boy’s cock in the back of his neck and you know that.

But what is the plan to keep the social safety net programs solvent?

R10, it's called this one weird trick: "taxing the fucking obscenely rich".

These guys represent some of the most prominent idiots to ever become public, well, idiots. Musk has real power and truly is a dangerous man. But none of them as unelected officials have the power or authority to hire and fire govt workers on any level. You’d think they’d know that. But hey., they’re idiots.

How to know when something won’t happen:

“Trump has promised …”

Musk donated $250M to Trump's campaign. Now he's parading through Capital Hill like he owns the damn place. With Trump being so easily bought he probably does. Deport his bitch ass and wipe that smirk off of Ramaswamy's smug face. Better yet ram a swami up his ass.

This happens with every administration and its “government efficiency council.”

They can’t touch Medicare, Military, and social security, so they go after the tiny sliver of the budget—government workers. They make some cosmetic changes and call it success

[Quote] But what is the plan to keep the social safety net programs solvent?

For social security, all you have to do is increase the income at which SS tax is taken to $250k, and that would keep it solvent for another 50 years. Now, the income up to which SS taxes are taken is $170k.

For Medicare, we would change to a Medicare for all system, get rid of private health insurance, and the cost of healthcare will go down by at least 1/3. Plus the govt would have incentive to push a healthier lifestyle on people.

Their stated plan is to move large parts of the Federal bureaucracy out of DC to the hinterlands, on the assumption a considerable number of Federal employees will quit rather than move and thus achieve their cost savings.

If this happens (doubtful) who's going to do they work they did, whether on Vermont Avenue in the District or on Main Street in East Bumfucke, AL, though? I assume MAGA will be just as pissed off as everyone else when what they want/need/expect doesn't happen because there was no one to do it.

It's just a giant clown show that will go nowhere. They're both mental midgets with huge egos who will accomplish exactly nothing.

Musk is using his Vivek's forehead and the Grimesbaby as shields

No one has articulated why they want to make these cuts—and how the savings would be used to make anyone’s life better.

They just want the spot light and they’ll accomplish nothing much. At this point I'm actually not worried.

So Elon has had a look under the federal government's hood, and now has decided on a new title. (This from his X account:)

[quote] The Federal government computers & software are in such bad shape that they often cannot verify that payments are not fraud, waste or abuse! That’s why the government can’t pass basic audits. They often LITERALLY don’t know where your tax dollars went. It’s insane.

[quote] My preferred title in the new administration is Volunteer IT Consultant. Need to fix the IT infrastructure in order to make government work. This is a grind & hardly glorious, but we can’t make government efficient & fix the deficit if the computers don’t work.

[quote] Some of it is intentional. Most of it is just a natural consequence of a vast bureaucracy with no accountability for results. If it were mostly intentional, it would be easy to reverse.

"It would be political suicide..."

THEY. DO. NOT. CARE. We are well beyond anything like that mattering anymore, sadly.

[quote] Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row, eyes passing grade by 2028 (November, 2023)

[quote] (The) independent public accounting firm examined $4.1 trillion in assets and $4.3 trillion in liabilities.

[quote] What isn’t abundantly clear yet, is if the DoD will achieve a clean audit on all of its financial statements by the end of 2028 — a mandate included in the FY28 National Defense Authorization Act.

[quote] At the rate it’s going, McCord said that will not be possible.

[Quote] No one has articulated why they want to make these cuts—and how the savings would be used to make anyone’s life better.

Actually they have made it pretty clear why. Trump wants to extend the tax cuts for the rich in the GOP tax law past its 2025 sunset. To do that, they have to find 2.5 trillion to offset the tax cuts.

He also promised social security would no longer be taxed. That’s another 2.5 trillion they need to offset

[quote]For social security, all you have to do is increase the income at which SS tax is taken to $250k, and that would keep it solvent for another 50 years.

Fine. Increase it to $500k.

[Quote] Fine. Increase it to $500k.

The whole point of the GOP is to reduces taxes for the rich. That’s it.

To them, this easy fix to SS, which have kept the elderly out of poverty for a century, is an immediate no-go.

Turd thinks he can fix the economy with downsizing govt., tariffs and isolationism (not our problem). Then he can go golfing.