Though its commonly thought of as only ‘Border Patrol’, the CBP manages import tariffs, documentation, all the paperwork on that stuff.
They have done this since 2003 when Homeland Security was established, and the US Customs Service, Border Patrol, and Immigration and Naturalization Service were basically merged, and put under Homeland Security.
Trump is again proposing the establishment of an agency to do a thing for which there is already an agency that does that thing.
The first being DOGE, which basically just does what GAO, the Government Accountability Office does. Except that they use actually qualified, non partisan workers to analyze budget and policy impacts… whereas DOGE is apparently going to be unpaid, highly political volunteers, hand picked by Vivek and Elon to work 80 hours a week for nothing.
Just in case anyone is not clear on this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protection
Though its commonly thought of as only ‘Border Patrol’, the CBP manages import tariffs, documentation, all the paperwork on that stuff.
They have done this since 2003 when Homeland Security was established, and the US Customs Service, Border Patrol, and Immigration and Naturalization Service were basically merged, and put under Homeland Security.
Trump is again proposing the establishment of an agency to do a thing for which there is already an agency that does that thing.
The first being DOGE, which basically just does what GAO, the Government Accountability Office does. Except that they use actually qualified, non partisan workers to analyze budget and policy impacts… whereas DOGE is apparently going to be unpaid, highly political volunteers, hand picked by Vivek and Elon to work 80 hours a week for nothing.
It’s the same business mentality as ever.
Make an alternative
Show it works
Lure the masses shift to alternative
Destroy the original
‘Enshittify’ the alternative
Profit