How DOGE cutbacks could create a major backlash
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Brookings Senior Fellow Elaine Kamarck explores the potential impact that DOGE-led federal cuts could have on Americans.
  • DOGE has been using AI systems to explore Social Security databases, but AI is prone to hallucinations.
  • Widespread cuts to the Food and Drug Administration could significantly undermine the government’s ability to identify the source of foodborne illnesses.
  • In its rush to shut down USAID, DOGE risks further harming the already fragile farm economy.
  • Reducing the CIA or FBI workforce in an era of asymmetric warfare, when threats to U.S. security can emerge from places most Americans have never heard of, may be, as intelligence expert David Ignatius put it, “the Trump administration’s most dangerous misstep.”
  • @inclementimmigrant
    2•5 days ago

    Look, backlash or not, which there already is, won’t change the fact that the damage is well and done and permanent at this point.