The DOGE stands for Donald Trump’s effort to save government money and return it to taxpayers. This Department of Government Efficiency, or the DOGE, isn’t a department of government. It’s a coterie of Elon Musk and his minions. They’re Trump’s favorite minions of the moment. MOMs as it were. In practice, Musk’s role is to slash jobs and try to shutter some parts of the government, with the future of savings in doubt. He’s now bureaucratizing himself with all employees ponying up details of their worth on the job. Who’ll read them? There will be lawsuits since his means of reducing waste and inefficiency are inefficient and likely illegal in some instances. In the background, some federal agencies, like the Social Security Administration, announce that a department is closing for savings and efficiency.

Trump proposes to return the savings in inefficiency to the American people as direct payments. The idea of paying Americans off for their support in this whirlwind of alleged government draining of the proverbial swamp is dubious.

There are nearly 4.5 million workers in the U.S. government, and about half of those are in the military. Walmart has 1.6 million workers. All that national government work for less than........

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