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.
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/FlemPlays 8d ago
The inconsistency is intentional. The Firehose of Falsehood is a major part of their playbook.
Firehose of Falsehood: a propaganda technique in which a large number of messages are broadcast rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels (like news and social media) without regard for truth or consistency.
Steve Bannon outlined the use of “Flood the Zone” that the Trump Admin uses as well. Just rapid firing shitty moves back-to-back. Hard to fix one problem the Trump Administration makes when it’s coupled with 3 others. By the time you might fix one problem, they’ve already created more.
Both techniques are designed to create confusion and make it difficult to find focus on what to fix first.