The OBBB sending the deficit up is not related to DOGE.
The DoGE cuts to the workforce were for mostly replicated functionality. Did the new hires slot into the missing positions, absent judgements of reinstatement? No.
Further, the estimates for "rehiring" and "lost productivity" are trying desperately to make DOGE look bad by assuming that all or almost all positions are critically vital to the government - just like news reports of 'long lines' at social security offices, despite the fact that very few front kine workers were cut, it was mostly administrative back end personnel that got axed from social security. And, those same complaints have been in place for years, at one office for over a decade.
Then you take Blumenthal's "investigation" which reports that of the 27 billion in "waste" 14.8 billion was the offers of retirement that paid workers out to take the resignations and a further 6.1b for separation that were forced. That's the opposite of "waste". Why did he include those numbers? Because the rest of the effects he could cite somewhat honestly were unnoticeable. Even the total 27 billion if you assume its 100% correct is barely a footnote to a government that spends $5t a year unaccountably.
Not a shill for... a shill against. Obvs we dont know that for sure.. sauce for your claims?
Veloute
Hahaha I had to internet search😅
The OBBB sending the deficit up is not related to DOGE.
The DoGE cuts to the workforce were for mostly replicated functionality. Did the new hires slot into the missing positions, absent judgements of reinstatement? No.
Further, the estimates for "rehiring" and "lost productivity" are trying desperately to make DOGE look bad by assuming that all or almost all positions are critically vital to the government - just like news reports of 'long lines' at social security offices, despite the fact that very few front kine workers were cut, it was mostly administrative back end personnel that got axed from social security. And, those same complaints have been in place for years, at one office for over a decade.
Then you take Blumenthal's "investigation" which reports that of the 27 billion in "waste" 14.8 billion was the offers of retirement that paid workers out to take the resignations and a further 6.1b for separation that were forced. That's the opposite of "waste". Why did he include those numbers? Because the rest of the effects he could cite somewhat honestly were unnoticeable. Even the total 27 billion if you assume its 100% correct is barely a footnote to a government that spends $5t a year unaccountably.