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Doug Steiger's avatar

Kind of impressive to ignore the massive cuts to the IRS, which will likely lead to massive revenue losses that will swamp any budgetary savings that eventually accrue.

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You nailed it on how DOGE has increased bureaucracy. DTS was a fine system before. Post DOGE, there have been 3 external processes added that have probably added 10 hours of staff time to my week.

Also, on the 5-points email. It revealed how Elon doesn’t know anything about the civil service/government. I sit next to my supervisor, so he already knows what I do everyday. We have a weekly update to our division chief, a biweekly update to our SES, and a monthly update to our agency head.

My favorite part of all was Kelly Loeffler walking around an empty government office earlier this year asking where everyone was. Idk Kelly maybe they all went home after you received a behind closed doors senate briefing in 2020 about the COVID lockdowns, told the president to do the lockdowns and bought stock in Cisco and other remote work companies.

Late empire stuff.

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