In the past week or so, the courts have begun to try to set some boundaries on the Musk–Miller–Trump administration’s early blitz of recklessness.
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This judicial review provides at least a small reprieve, hope that some of the administration’s most destructive impulses will be stopped. Or at least pared back. But even with the courts stepping up, and even with the reality of the administration’s ineptitude sinking in, this early Musk–Miller–Trump blitz remains very—maybe irreparably—damaging. Of course, there are a lot of moles to whack: the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are being dismantled at an alarming rate, and the court system is not known for being nimble. The administration is betting, perhaps rightly, that at least some of its thoughtless, lawless efforts will slip through the cracks.
But even if the courts caught them all—and even if every court facing each lawless escapade said, “Nope, that’s not a thing”—still the entire process would be doing serious damage to our institutions. Think of it as someone spoofing your identity and going on a shopping spree with your credit cards. Even if the goon gets caught, you still have to go store by store to argue that the fraudulent purchase wasn’t legitimate and hope the debt is forgiven. And all the while, perhaps long after all the debts are dealt with, the torrent of uncertainty kills your credit score.
How does this help taxpayers?
By cutting waste
I have no idea why you think this is what money is being wasted on. We’re already seeing the effect of downsizing the FAA. Do you think regular plane crashes are going to lower taxes?
First that’s a strawman, I never made that argument, but if I did you would have to provide evidence that downsizing the faa would cause regular plane crashes.
It’s literally already happening.
And it’s hard to know what argument you’re making when your responses are one and two words.
Regular crashes are not happening. Also they rejected over 1000 applicants for traffic controllers because of there race while having a staffing shortage. Maybe don’t do that
Should be pretty easy when I don’t use words like faa and plane crashes
Where do you people even come up with this nonsense?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/immediate-assessment-of-aviation-safety
This was your entire argument:
You didn’t even bother defining what you think is waste. Is every government employee a waste?
I am aware.
The government’s job is to protect individuals from aggression by others. If it doesn’t involve that, then probably
That is not the only job of government.
So meat inspectors at the FDA and doctors at the CDC are a waste because they don’t protect others from aggression. Okay then.
They aren’t interested in cutting waste. If they were, they would be slashing the Pentagon budget. Notice how all this talk of cost cutting, nobody is breathing a word about the Pentagon?
Because that’s where the fraud, waste and abuse is.
Remember the last time someone was supposed to take Pentagon waste seriously? No, of course not, because it was 9/10/2001.
https://youtu.be/xU4GdHLUHwU
This person has reached the absurd point with me of “it’s fine that Trump is firing the people responsible for safeguarding our nuclear weapons [which he’s in the process of doing] because they aren’t all that important to the safety of our nuclear weapons,” so I wouldn’t hold out much hope for their understanding what you’re saying.
Again, never made that argument
They haven’t gotten that far yet. They can’t audit every department in one day.
https://youtu.be/Leor8ual9tw
It’s not that they haven’t gotten that far, it’s that they simply are not interested in the largest source of fraud, waste, and abuse.
If they were, they would have started with the biggest piece of the budget, not tiny slices like USAID.
USAID makes up $40 billion… which sounds like a lot until you realize the DoD budget is $850 billion.
The director literally said he welcomes them
Suuuure… 😉
https://youtu.be/Leor8ual9tw