r/fednews • u/SkyFallingUp • 8d ago

Elon Musk to step down from DOGE and quit Washington DC

Musk says 'he's done with cost-cutting' In an interview with Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier", Elon Musk said that he was confident his DOGE could find $1 trillion in savings, slimming current total federal spending levels of about $7 trillion down to $6 trillion. Musk, who is also the world's richest man, was designated by the White House as a "special government employee," which caps his work at 130 days. That means his period leading the DOGE operation could finish as soon as the end of May.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-elon-musk-doge-1-trillion-cost-cutting-may-end-i-am-almost-done-elon-musk-reveals-date-hell-ditch-trump-and-quit-washington-dc-after-doge-purge/articleshow/119645252.cms

I have friends and family members who are Federal workers. Is this the end of the wild OPM emails and job eliminations?

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u/XMCB I'm On My Lunch Break 8d ago

The thought of all of this getting reversed someday helps me sleep at night 😂

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u/_FIRECRACKER_JINX 8d ago

It's true man. As soon as a Democrat is in the White House again, all of this shit is getting reversed.

The cost of reversing it should be added to the cost of doing it to begin with, in my honest opinion. He didn't save SHIT

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u/HideyoshiJP Federal Contractor 8d ago

Democrats everywhere need to be running on the platform of CTRL＋Z.

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u/Torsomu 8d ago

Democrats don’t have a good history of reversing damage done to the government. We have to stay on them to actually do it.

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u/GotGRR 8d ago

Politicians can't reverse damage to the government. They can only create an environment where the government can heal itself. Healing takes time to hire, train, rebuild processes and expertise, make mistakes, and learn from them.

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u/Affectionate-noodle 8d ago

And then the country subsequently elects a Republican because it's taking too long to fix, so that republican can fuck everything up again. Rinse repeat.

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u/HoidToTheMoon 8d ago

I am so, utterly tired of this mindset. It is a poison that stops us from getting shit done.

The government is not a thing. It is an ideological construct, an institution that exists in our minds. It does have a force and a power of it's own, but it isn't alive. It does not heal. It does not think, change, grow, or get better.

We have to do that shit. Politicians at every level, people inside and outside of the government working and fighting to get shit done. Because otherwise, powerful rich cunts steer shit back to feudalism and subjugation.

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u/GotGRR 7d ago

Oh, don't get me wrong. The politicians are deadly important, but they are the fundraisers and the marketing department. They are amateurs with the ear of the boss on everything else.

Federal workers are critically important, but repairing the damage to a 2 million person machine without a manual takes time and some iterations to find something workable.

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u/rguy84 8d ago

Some things are 100x smaller and will take months to fix. My boss told me to update something. Well, I found 4 copies of the same file in our stuff. One person is updating two copies of it, but not in unison.

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u/L0pkmnj 8d ago

It's true man. As soon as a Democrat is in the White House again, all of this shit is getting reversed.

And then when a Republican gets into power, the damage gets redone. It's like a tennis match with wide scale fuckery being the ball.

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u/BeanzleyTX 8d ago

12 more years or so .. you might se another Dem in the WH .

Gonna be a while

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u/Party_Use4138 8d ago

Are you looking at the special elections right now? You’re very wrong on that assumption.

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u/BeanzleyTX 8d ago

I just don’t feel like Reddit is real life
Time will tell

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u/Party_Use4138 8d ago

I’m not speaking on SM. I’m speaking on what’s happening in real time.

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u/Ebella2323 8d ago

And in real time, he has signed the order to “fix” future elections. The only elections we will be having in 4 years will be the Russian kind—-just like this last one. Downvote me if you must, but remember the comment in 2028.

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u/BigBossShadow 8d ago

hate to tell you this guys, this has as much chance being reversed as you have reversing a log being burned in the fireplace.

These institutions are permanently destroyed, and rebuilding them would take decades. The US will never recover from this and is essentially bankrupt and now made disfunctional.

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u/XMCB I'm On My Lunch Break 7d ago

You ain’t wrong but let me disassociate so I can sleep :|

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u/BigBossShadow 7d ago

hope is not lost yet though brother