The Department of Government Efficiency (aka DOGE)

A sea cucumber has more spine than johnson... he's telling gop reps to skip town halls, concentrate on smaller stuff like little community gatherings (just magats or all-out trump acolytes) and possibly tele-halls, because all the nasty people are really paid professionals hired by dems to grab a platform. Dems are constituents, too, and he's doing a great disservice to all of the regular republicans who are suddenly aware they might be impacted by trump's decisions when they'd thought it'd only be the brown-skinned folks and cheating dems, illegal immigrants and commies who would get what was coming.

The speaker protecting his thin-as-ever majority advised his lawmakers to choose other forums — smaller community gatherings or telephone town halls — to discuss the issues with voters.

“They’re running away from the people because they know how badly people have been hurt by what they’re doing,” said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.
running away's fine by me if it means it wakes enough people up for the dems to take the House in the mid-terms.
Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, and the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said, “I think many House Republicans have to make a choice about whether they want to fulfill their job title as representative, where they can have a town hall and actually speak honestly to their constituents, or whether they want to change their job title to Elon Musk employee.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...&cvid=e31747f6a9944e319ada73ab20dc31e0&ei=100
 
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday published a list of more than 400 federal properties it says it could close or sell, including the FBI headquarters and the main Department of Justice building, after deeming them “not core to government operations."

The list published by the General Services Administration includes some of the country’s most recognizable buildings and spans nearly every state, with properties ranging from courthouses to office buildings and parking garages. In Washington, D.C., it includes the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which serves as FBI headquarters, the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the Old Post Office building, where President Donald Trump once ran a hotel, and the American Red Cross headquarters. The headquarters of numerous agencies, including Department of Labor and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, are listed as well.
Major General Emmett J. Bean Federal Center in Indiana, the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center and the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...1&cvid=5dfec666198d4f93848d07fe15bf4f23&ei=14
 
Because of course. :)

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.


Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned.

Jeremy Lewin, one of the DOGE employees tasked with dismantling USAID, who has also played a role in DOGE’s incursions into the National Institutes of Health and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is listed as making just over $167,000 annually, WIRED has confirmed. Lewin is assigned to the Office of the Administrator within the General Services Administration.

Kyle Schutt, a software engineer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is listed as drawing a salary of $195,200 through GSA, where he is assigned to the Office of the Deputy Administrator. That is the maximum amount that any “General Schedule” federal employee can make annually, including bonuses. “You cannot be offered more under any circumstances,” the GSA compensation and benefits website reads.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” WIRED previously reported that the DOGE recruitment effort relied in part on a team of engineers associated with Peter Thiel and was carried out on platforms like Discord.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/
 
Because of course. :)

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.


Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned.

Jeremy Lewin, one of the DOGE employees tasked with dismantling USAID, who has also played a role in DOGE’s incursions into the National Institutes of Health and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is listed as making just over $167,000 annually, WIRED has confirmed. Lewin is assigned to the Office of the Administrator within the General Services Administration.

Kyle Schutt, a software engineer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is listed as drawing a salary of $195,200 through GSA, where he is assigned to the Office of the Deputy Administrator. That is the maximum amount that any “General Schedule” federal employee can make annually, including bonuses. “You cannot be offered more under any circumstances,” the GSA compensation and benefits website reads.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” WIRED previously reported that the DOGE recruitment effort relied in part on a team of engineers associated with Peter Thiel and was carried out on platforms like Discord.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/
musk lied. whoudda thought it, eh?
 
What's the recourse of someone gets divorced or kills themselves because they lost their job only to have it be re-offered the following week?
 
It is becoming obvious that DOGE is completely incompetent to improve government efficiency.

Musk should have assembled a team of efficiency experts and forensic accountants. Those exist, they're available.
 
What's the recourse of someone gets divorced or kills themselves because they lost their job
Fuck em. They tried exercising their bodily automony and refusing a vaccination...

Whoops! Wrong talking point and accidently slipped into leftist democrat mode. 🫢
 
Fuck em. They tried exercising their bodily automony and refusing a vaccination...

Whoops! Wrong talking point and accidently slipped into leftist democrat mode. 🫢

TST is so dumb …

How dumb is he?

TST is so dumb he thinks there’s a relevant comparison between a person who gets fired without cause (involuntarily of course) and a person who voluntarily refuses a vaccine.
 
TST is so dumb …

How dumb is he?

TST is so dumb he thinks there’s a relevant comparison between a person who gets fired without cause (involuntarily of course) and a person who voluntarily refuses a vaccine.
He's definitely one of the dumber n00bs.
 
GOP Governor Who Wants To Cut 100,000 Adults from Medicaid Up for 77% Salary Raise

Others were not as polite after learning that another bill advanced in the Statehouse this week would give Reynolds a $100,000 raise (a 77% increase) and also increase the salaries of state lawmakers by $20,000 in 2027. According to the Des Moines Register, Reynolds currently makes $130,000 a year.

One angry constituent replied: “Everyone in the Republican Party said no Medicaid cuts and now see what they r doing! Hmmmmm! Farmers want to know about the USDA cuts!!! Kim's more interested in asking for a 77 per cent increase to her pay which equals an extra 100,000 dollars in her pocket!!!”
it's not the first time we've seen drastic cuts made to workforces or their benefits even as the 'bosses' get golden raises. This kind of shit is the worst of America.
 
I’ll be back with an image

But for those who know Negan and thereby Glenn’s demise in “The Walking Dead”

Don’t worry! Now, we’ll use a scalpel

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