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The official DOGE TRACKER is here!

Confluence said:
Do you even read when you post a link:

"The answer partly lies in the fundamentals of the government's budget when it comes to big-ticket expenditures that the White House can't fully control or massive changes to the way the U.S. pays for aging Americans' retirements and medical care.

The rest of the answer is politics. The conservative base that elected Mr. Trump and the Republican majorities in Congress may not support cutting the other biggest share of federal spending, the operations of the U.S. military and caring for veterans."
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Which is exactly why it's important to cut fraud, waste, and abuse.
 
Troglodyte said:
One in every 395 people in the DC metro’s 6.4 million population is a federal worker. There’s lots of areas that survive recessions better than other areas. You can’t pick and choose which of them you resent.
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how about we just resent one in every 395 of the DC metro's 6.4 million population?
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Why do you think unions gave up on the private sector 40 years ago in favor of unionizing the low-hanging fruit of government workers?
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You’d be amazed how powerless our union is. We have a union in name, but we don’t pay dues and they can’t really do anything for us. It’s kind of stupid, but it’s there.
 
Another poltical gangster. It pays to be a "made man".


 
The universal response to anything Floggy writes about DOGE or governing in general should be:

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Confluence said:
Are you suggesting this guy is accurate?
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Are you asking is “Where are the receipts?” an accurate question?

Name the people (supposedly) exposed by DOGE for fraud who are now facing criminal charges. I’ll wait.

Why has federal spending increased? I’ll wait.
 
Troglodyte said:
Are you asking is “Where are the receipts?” an accurate question?

Name the people (supposedly) exposed by DOGE for fraud who are now facing criminal charges. I’ll wait.

Why has federal spending increased? I’ll wait.
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Stephen Miller’s Report​

“I’ve seen a few claims making the rounds on the Big Beautiful Bill that require correction. The first is that it doesn’t “codify the DOGE cuts.” A reconciliation bill, which is a budget bill that passes with 50 votes, is limited by senate rules to “mandatory” spending only — eg Medicaid and Food Stamps. The senate rules prevent it from cutting “discretionary” spending — eg the Department of Education or federal grants. The DOGE cuts are overwhelmingly discretionary, not mandatory.

The bill saves more than 1.6 TRILLION in mandatory spending, including the largest-ever welfare reform. A remarkable achievement.

I’ve also seen claims the bill increases the deficit. This lie is based on a CBO accounting gimmick. Income tax rates from the 2017 tax cut are set to expire in September. They were always planned to be permanent. CBO says maintaining *current* rates adds to the deficit, but by definition leaving these income tax rates unchanged cannot add one penny to the deficit. The bill’s spending cuts REDUCE the deficit against the current law baseline, which is the only correct baseline to use.

Another fantastically false claim is that the bill spends trillions of dollars. This is just completely invented out of whole cloth. This is not a ten year budget bill—it doesn’t “fund” almost any operations of government, which are funded in the annual budget bills (which this is not). In other words, if this bill passed, but the annual budget bill did not, there would be no government funding.

Under the math that critics are using, if we passed a one paragraph reconciliation bill that cut simply 50 billion in food stamp spending, they would say the bill “added” trillions in spending and debt because they are counting ALL the projected federal spending that exists entirely outside the scope of this legislation, which is of course preposterous.

The only funding in the bill is for the President’s border and defense priorities, while enacting a net spending cut of over 1.6 TRILLION dollars.

The bill has two fiscal components: a massive tax cut and a massive spending cut.

A number of senators, including Ron Johnson, has it adding trillions to the deficit. Stephen Miller said that it is not accurate.
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Superman said:
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So....who's being lied to? Legitimate question. I've read so much noise about this bill from some very legitimate sources on both sides and its absolute chaos, to the point where I have thrown my hands into the air, double birds displayed, and I've officially yelled "Fook it!!! Burn this MF'er to tha GROUND", scorched Earth baby! To the point where we're all bipedal, naked, sticking our fingers into each other's holes, and fighting over who gets the yellow bananas that just hit the ground. I'm absolutely ******* over it all. Done.
 
Badcat said:
So....who's being lied to? Legitimate question. I've read so much noise about this bill from some very legitimate sources on both sides and its absolute chaos, to the point where I have thrown my hands into the air, double birds displayed, and I've officially yelled "Fook it!!! Burn this MF'er to tha GROUND", scorched Earth baby! To the point where we're all bipedal, naked, sticking our fingers into each other's holes, and fighting over who gets the yellow bananas that just hit the ground. I'm absolutely ******* over it all. Done.
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always defer to the tried and proven facts of:
1) The Government Lies
2) The Media Lies

if 1 is not true, then 2 is. If 2 is not true, then 1 is. If both are true, it's just another day. if neither are true, then you're on the other side of the dirt.
 
Badcat said:
So....who's being lied to? Legitimate question. I've read so much noise about this bill from some very legitimate sources on both sides and its absolute chaos, to the point where I have thrown my hands into the air, double birds displayed, and I've officially yelled "Fook it!!! Burn this MF'er to tha GROUND", scorched Earth baby! To the point where we're all bipedal, naked, sticking our fingers into each other's holes, and fighting over who gets the yellow bananas that just hit the ground. I'm absolutely ******* over it all. Done.
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