One of the first things they should do is check the financial statements of all those folks in Congress who came in with a modest NET WORTH and are now worth Millions.
Can't do that, the Constitution prohibits that when they're in session. But, no POTUS or even president elect may create a department. That's the sole responsibility of Congress.
@@tobagotom Those are privately paid for. No taxpayer funds have ever gone to those. You’d know the difference if your parents were poor and didn’t have to send you to public school. 😂🫵
@@tobagotomDefense is in the pocket from which money came. If Trums got his toilet before his first presidential term and others right after getting any government position?
All you have to do is listen to what Elon and trump have said in rallies they want to make cuts, but large severance pay costs money where are they going to get the money, fire people who have families and pay taxes and spend their money on food mortgages utilities, dry goods, auto insurance, health insurance, on everything, a lot of poor Republicans draw SSI, food stamps, most of the lowest income states are Republican states, but they are voting Republican and don't listen to what they say on video, the dumbing of America
Because the interest on our debt is so big now that it is over a trillion dollars every 90 days, and it’s compounding. If we don’t cut expenditures now, we will go into hyperinflation and society will collapse. Math doesn’t care about our sensibilities.
@@thelemon5069you aren’t actually thinking that three and only three people are going to be involved in this right…please say right….you’ve got to have more logical thinking than that. They’re currently going on a recruitment tour🤦♂️🤦♂️those three are the heads. Like any business, government, entity, you have heads. And you have those directly under the heads. And that continues down until you have a force of people.
@@CSemperFi135 we don’t trust them! We don’t trust they will be fair minded, etc. Musk is obviously a very successful person and smart but he hasn’t got a clue about how the government works or what is needed in it. The other guy either.
I find it funny how much the establishment is afraid of what they will suggest needs to be cut. It's almost as if they've known about all the wasteful spending of OUR money that has been going on for decades and are afraid of it coming to light. 🤔
Pay close attention to the military budget. It won't be cut one cent. Pretty soon, your taxes won't be paying for anything else. Every conceivable public service will be privatized and deregulated, and if you want to know what that will do to your pocketbook, just look at your cable and cell phone bills.
Just about everyone agrees that wasteful spending should be eliminated to the extent possible. What people are concerned about is that this is a smoke screen to gut the entire apparatus. It's a good soundbite to be anti-government, but it would be a catastrophic social and economic move. Anyone who has observed Musk also knows that anything he says is self-serving.
@DrDoohickey you do know those industries are basically sectioned off for the top companies. It more deregulation you would see more companies start and under cut the big guys.
@@_haimerej He won't be drawing a salary for his efforts. Not being on EBT/Welfare like most Dems. in my city I think it's worth a shot. Don't worry, you libs. will still get your state check regardless.
They didn't fire government - they appointed a new one, and this time it's a pan-corporate proxy - a union for corporations. Pretty soon, your taxes will support only the military. You'll be paying out of pocket for roads and schools, and say goodbye to Social Security. And if you're wondering what will happen to the rest of your bills, consider how hard you're being squeezed already - cable, internet, telephone, utilities, groceries. Once the corporations are in charge, you're spit out of luck. And that's what you just voted for. It's all on you now, my friend.
The problem is the parts being "fired" keep millions of people alive, and the actual bloat like the military will see none of the cuts. I get the outrage over parts of the government, but gutting retirement, health, education, and privatizing everything is blatantly not the answer.
Government failed the people. The people fire government. The new guys steal everything when were not looking. Voters do it all over again in 4 years. Repeat this for decades.
Why? R u butthurt? What musk's spacex is doing NOBODY and I mean nobody is doing on the planet. People still are hating him for no reason other then he voted for Trump 😂
@@Michael-ul7kv Cutting their only ride to space? Maybe you haven't been paying attention. Russians have been taking Americans up to the ISS for years. And as I say elsewhere, there are two other private space firms that can do the same thing
You think that's all that will go? You're about to start paying anew for the things you thought were covered by your taxes. The corporations are about to take charge, my friend, and your bills are heading to the stratosphere.
Good golly miss molly, where on earth did you see that load of bull dooky? Here is the headline from WaPo: Congress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the nation. From Fact Check: Trump is likely referring to $7.5 billion approved by Congress to help build a network of EV chargers across the U.S. over five years. But not all of the money has been spent, or even made available to states yet. Experts say the funds are expected to help build thousands of charging stations and more than 30,000 individual charging ports.
#1 its Laken not Lanken. #2 ruclips.net/video/M_p95J05x1w/видео.htmlsi=-9BBwaipxwOk7bUJ ruclips.net/video/6g0eL2FoQD0/видео.htmlsi=Rk9VY609UuFzw3oR ruclips.net/video/LovkF5iiTzM/видео.htmlsi=6AyxxoaZt1w7lr2p ruclips.net/video/pLwNRhC8e68/видео.htmlsi=-EFb776Ir__mjvCv here's 4 videos from CBS on it from the last 24 hours. I just don't understand......
You've never even seen an illegal immigrant. Who's Trump's boogeyman gonna be after they're gone? He'll have to find some shiny object for you guys to hate & hold your attention while he puts you in poverty and becomes the king.
Yeah, they're going to chop off the dead wood. Very few gov. employees are actually talented; most are just looking a 9-5 with a six figure salary (sorry ladies but the ride is over)...
I earned social security. It's mine. If they cut it there will be hell to pay! You think the proud boys are scary? You have no idea what seniors will do.
That’s a lot of people on unemployment with no jobs to go to. Gonna make the Trump Economy look terrible. Lots of federal employees work in red states too. It’s going to hurt the state economy as well.
@@michaelellringer5600 I Remember during the Great Recession when Republicans voted to give 2.1 trillion to bail out the financial institutions that caused the mess and then refused to extend unemployment benefits to Americans who were unemployed because of the Recession
Maybe the salaries of all of our government employees like senators and presidents and all that needs to be cut down a little bit to where they're more like the little guy that only makes $40,000 a year
I hate so see people out of work BUT the government is worse than unions and I hope they are able to cut at least as much as they are saying. The overspending, the waste, the abuse of programs all need to be cleaned up.
The only place they can make cuts that will matter is gutting social security, gutting medicare/medicaid or gutting the military. Take your pick which one you want gone haha
@@sager122469 I work for an airline, and there are hundreds of military personnel there. There are millions of jobs available in the private sector. The government is not needed.
@@jacquelinequinn9723 Just like any other large corporation that lays off a large amount, they will temporarily get their free government handouts, but they will all get new jobs in the private sector, and they will have to actually put in an honest day's work. Elon laid off 80% of the people at twitter and it is still running fine. That is the same the federal government has done, they have gotten so fat it is sickening. WE tax payers are paying for all the abuse and curruptoion.
Have not yet heard how all these savings will be returned to the American people. With Trump's billion dollar legal fees and Musk's businesses dipping, might be a good idea to keep an eye on where the money goes. No problem, right? Big windfall for the people coming?
Putting the guy in charge of government efficiency who laid off 80% of the Twitter staff and now the company is worth a quarter of what he paid for it sounds like a really smart idea said absolutely nobody with half a brain.
This rhetoric, the blonde sounds like a bourocrat. This is exactly what they're hoping to get rid of. Government shouldn't take forever. We need reforms.
It's high time something like this was devised. Govt. waste is astronomical. ANYONE who's worked in a large corporation or government position understands this. Waste, kickbacks, redundancies galore.
I work as a contractor for one of the agencies Muskrat wants to privatize/abolish, there's nothing left to cut here, we're already potentially putting lives at risk with some cost cutting decisions from on high.
WE Hope !!!!!!!!! WE have the highest debt in our nations history. The dollar is weak and that is why gold is up. If something isn't done, the dollar can fall and guess what ? YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE ! FACT.
they should have consultants come in and follow every person that works in the government around for a month and show how they waste our money just by wasting time resources
@@webportal6659 Maybe because it keeps showing up in Maga sites as one of the budget expenses that is "faltering" and should be shut down. I think someone needs to remind Trump that Reagan, W, and who knows who else borrowed trillions from SS and never paid it back.
Have fun with rampant pollution in your food, in your air, in your water. Have fun with infrastructure falling apart or everything being toll usage. Have fun with your children struggling even more than we did as everything becomes privatized and vastly more expensive. "Big government is bad government." what utter braindead nonsense, you know what the alternative is? corporations owning you and you having 0 say in any of it.
The kind that monitors the nation's ground water to make sure it is free of harmful chemicals and microbial life and that it's safe for future generations? Or the ones who have jurisdiction to pursue criminals across state lines? Or the scientists whose research goes towards predicting natural phenomena like earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, and volcanic activity to protect Americans. Or the agencies that protect maintain and provide national parks and monuments for the public to enjoy? They sound like a greedy lot of no good alarmists and commies to me... the audacity to call themselves public servants.
The government is the only reason everyone has the lives they do. Public education, healthcare, the legal system, infrastructure, hell your rights, literally everything is thru government. structure and protection.
Wrong Question: there are 435 Agencies, they employ 2,500,000 “Civil Servants,” like Reagan did, they can all be laid off. ALL OF THEM ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Trump is trying have them decide what makes sense to cut and what to keep. By the way ALL THE REGULATIONS we live under come from these Agencies with very little government oversight. Because of them, WE ARE SERFS.
Our social security payments are not “Benefits “. This money is “ our” money taken from our earnings over a lifetime of “our” work. It was to be set aside and invested by the Government so we would have an income after we were retirement age. What happened was when the Government got short on funds due to poor management of their “tax” money, (which by the way came from our pay checks,) the looked over and saw what we had sitting there and “ borrowed “ it. That said they don’t have the right to even call it a Benefit. O
Well it will certainly leave necessity for subsidies for businesses in red States if they yank too much Aid. Subsidies nowhere near the level of Musk's own subsidies. I'd wager my good arm they'll do everything they can to cherry pick canceling what they can against political opponent states first. They'll let that classy side shine.
They can't chop too hard it will leave a vacuum black hole in Red States States as far as grocery stores and things like that. Of course then they will introduce subsidies to keep businesses alive, but surely not subsidies on the level that Musk gets... the most subsidized man in the world.
Where did all of the money go from the people that died before the age of retirement??? That money should've been put back into the social security funds and not in some one's pockets!!!???
Congress should pay to be part of congress considering ALL the insider trading they do! With the exception of Howley he should be the one in charge and receiving a pay check.
I do not know fed budgets but it seems that just because some area is mandatory does not mean that there are not reductions that cannot take place in those areas.
Pray that DOGE is successful, cutting expenses will save our country from financial collapse and stop constant devaluation of the dollar. Dollars constantly losing value is a stealth tax making everything cost more.
Vivek is more explicit as to what he will do as head of the DOGE. I think both Elon and Vivek found how serious the situation is and need to take a drastic measure. Only interest payment on national debt is roughly $ 1 T. Former GAO head David Walker has been talking about seriousness of the national debt. Walker said then $ 25 T is the point of no return. Now we are looking at $ 37 T debt. As a Republican who voted for Clinton and Obama, I have been voting for a person right for nation disregarding the party line when it comes to the POTUS. I am surprised these days lots of media is openly talking about $ 37 T national debt all over. I think it is a good sign to deal with national debt problem. And, I want to see national debt issue on every election, city, county, state , federal. I hope every candidate will layout how she/he will be solving national debt with detailed plan with numbers. If I were Trump, I would let Elon and Vivek huge power to do whatever. In the end, it will be all under Trump name. Telling the truth, up until I heard about Elon and vivek and DOGE, I thought there was no hope in this nation's future with attitude of ignoring national debt issue. But, now , we have a chance to live little longer. As a Republican who voted for both Clinton and Obama, I think Dems should wake up and deal with real issue nation is facing.
Could , would, should…. Why don’t you wait until you have some facts. And if you don’t fully agree we need to cut a ton of wasted spending we aren’t buying it. You can’t keep jobs just cause people have a unnecessary job.
The vast majority of civil servants and direct contractors are working very necessary jobs. The "waste" are political appointees and at defense contractors who are not directly employed by an agency so will be outside the scope of "DOGE".
How about this government spending: From 2000 to 2022, the overall VA budget grew from $76 billion to $267 billion (in 2022 $) despite a 30 percent decline (from 26.4 million to 18.4 million) in the veteran population over the same period. From 2000 to 2022, the number of disability compensation recipients with a rating of 70 percent or more increased by 7-fold (from 0.34 million to 2.66 million) while the number with a rating of just 10 or 20 percent hardly changed (from 1.23 million to 1.30 million). This rating system used by the VA encourages disability compensation recipients to apply for increases in their ratings and may discourage some from improving their health. VA spending on the program is now 83 percent as large as for Social Security Disability Insurance, the largest federal disability program that insures 10 times as many adults. These are direct quotes from an article on The Hill: How runaway disability compensation is straining Veterans Affairs, there are some interesting charts as well.
Agencies that are paid millions to watch Hamsters fight on steroids, if selfies are good for you mentally, and genetically weaponized mosquitos are not things we should be spending taxpayer money on.
I wonder if you can add checks and gates to block all fraud without adding new positions and salaries? Or would you just spend a year training an AI to catch it?
One of the first things they should do is check the financial statements of all those folks in Congress who came in with a modest NET WORTH and are now worth Millions.
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If you look at the 10 wealthiest people in congress, most of them are republicans. Both sides are guilty of doing the same thing
That'd be every Democrat 😂😂😂
@@RenNightrainand every Republican 🤡
@@RenNightrain no argument here !
If they cut benefits on average citizen, they need to cut benefits on members of congress!
Why cut necessary benefits? Why not military and Medicare Advantage?
Like their salaries!!!!
Can't do that, the Constitution prohibits that when they're in session.
But, no POTUS or even president elect may create a department. That's the sole responsibility of Congress.
Won't happen. What they'll cut are programs that help US the taxpayers help those who need help. They won't cut costs of their cash cows
@spvillano No such thing as a necessary benefit. I have zero benefits and am still alive. Therefore, not necessary.
Like 5k toilet seats aren't necessary
This are the gold toilet seats that trump sits on
That's not what they're even looking out.
@@tobagotom
Those are privately paid for. No taxpayer funds have ever gone to those. You’d know the difference if your parents were poor and didn’t have to send you to public school.
😂🫵
@@SeiyaSoiya-un4jjWTF are you talking about? When Trump doesn’t pay any taxes… we all pay!
@@tobagotomDefense is in the pocket from which money came. If Trums got his toilet before his first presidential term and others right after getting any government position?
Need to cut the pay and the insurance of the house in Congress and Senate
Why aren’t these news reporters actually ask Vivek and Elon rather than guessing everything and making assumptions
Making an ass of themselves is the only thing they can do right.
Well, because that doesn't make great news. 😂
All you have to do is listen to what Elon and trump have said in rallies they want to make cuts, but large severance pay costs money where are they going to get the money, fire people who have families and pay taxes and spend their money on food mortgages utilities, dry goods, auto insurance, health insurance, on everything, a lot of poor Republicans draw SSI, food stamps, most of the lowest income states are Republican states, but they are voting Republican and don't listen to what they say on video, the dumbing of America
Because Elon and Vivek have no clue how government works
@ we will see in a month.. until then we can all speculate
Just because it is required spending doesn’t mean it can’t be spent more efficiently.
Start with the war budget.
If we were dealing with different czars , that might be. But a South African gazillionaire and a typical trumpist ? Nope
Seriously? They're going to cut programs & civil servants who do the daily tasks of making the govt function, Sherlock
@@jenniferc218 We have a few too many “civil servants”. Make government lean again.
Why are people suddenly against putting an end to irresponsible government spending? Our debt is nearly an imaginary number it's so high.
When it's not their side doing good things they get mad at good things lol
Because the interest on our debt is so big now that it is over a trillion dollars every 90 days, and it’s compounding. If we don’t cut expenditures now, we will go into hyperinflation and society will collapse. Math doesn’t care about our sensibilities.
@coldshock5181 um no they literally called it "DOGE" like the meme because it's a joke to think a department of efficiency should be ran by 3 people
@@thelemon5069you aren’t actually thinking that three and only three people are going to be involved in this right…please say right….you’ve got to have more logical thinking than that. They’re currently going on a recruitment tour🤦♂️🤦♂️those three are the heads. Like any business, government, entity, you have heads. And you have those directly under the heads. And that continues down until you have a force of people.
@@CSemperFi135 we don’t trust them! We don’t trust they will be fair minded, etc. Musk is obviously a very successful person and smart but he hasn’t got a clue about how the government works or what is needed in it. The other guy either.
I find it funny how much the establishment is afraid of what they will suggest needs to be cut. It's almost as if they've known about all the wasteful spending of OUR money that has been going on for decades and are afraid of it coming to light. 🤔
Pay close attention to the military budget. It won't be cut one cent. Pretty soon, your taxes won't be paying for anything else. Every conceivable public service will be privatized and deregulated, and if you want to know what that will do to your pocketbook, just look at your cable and cell phone bills.
Just about everyone agrees that wasteful spending should be eliminated to the extent possible. What people are concerned about is that this is a smoke screen to gut the entire apparatus. It's a good soundbite to be anti-government, but it would be a catastrophic social and economic move. Anyone who has observed Musk also knows that anything he says is self-serving.
@_haimerej truth
@DrDoohickey you do know those industries are basically sectioned off for the top companies. It more deregulation you would see more companies start and under cut the big guys.
@@_haimerej He won't be drawing a salary for his efforts. Not being on EBT/Welfare like most Dems. in my city I think it's worth a shot. Don't worry, you libs. will still get your state check regardless.
The first thing to cut is money going to other countries. They shouldnt be receiving money while we are receiving cuts.
Government failed the people.
The people fire government.
Sounds right to me.
They didn't fire government - they appointed a new one, and this time it's a pan-corporate proxy - a union for corporations. Pretty soon, your taxes will support only the military. You'll be paying out of pocket for roads and schools, and say goodbye to Social Security. And if you're wondering what will happen to the rest of your bills, consider how hard you're being squeezed already - cable, internet, telephone, utilities, groceries.
Once the corporations are in charge, you're spit out of luck. And that's what you just voted for. It's all on you now, my friend.
The problem is the parts being "fired" keep millions of people alive, and the actual bloat like the military will see none of the cuts.
I get the outrage over parts of the government, but gutting retirement, health, education, and privatizing everything is blatantly not the answer.
Musk isn't "the people"
Government failed the people.
The people fire government.
The new guys steal everything when were not looking.
Voters do it all over again in 4 years.
Repeat this for decades.
Federal contracts to musk’s pos Space X is a good starting point for cutting waste
Wrong... he actually providing what that government agency can't provide.
Give the people what they voted for. Lay them all off.
Disgusting
Then nobody is there to help you when you’re wanting help with tax issues or getting your SS card😊
Overspending in the government has been an issue for decades. This is nothing new and I'm glad it's getting addressed.
Reaganomics.
“Getting addressed” lmao
It's not getting addressed
Elon and Vivek won't have any real power. They can only make suggestions. Only congress can make cuts.
It wasn't over spending when you accepted the Stimulus checks to help recover from Covid...
A melting pot of narcissists pictured here.
I hope the first thing they cut is tax subsidies for Tesla and the NASA gravy for space x
Why? R u butthurt? What musk's spacex is doing NOBODY and I mean nobody is doing on the planet. People still are hating him for no reason other then he voted for Trump 😂
@@words007 spoken like a true mushroom polisher
That's never going to happen. They'll get even more corporate welfare.
Cutting their only ride to space? Get a load of this one. Maybe you would prefer they hitch a ride with the Russians?
@@Michael-ul7kv Cutting their only ride to space? Maybe you haven't been paying attention. Russians have been taking Americans up to the ISS for years. And as I say elsewhere, there are two other private space firms that can do the same thing
All the DEI stuff will be gone for sure...
If that you mean Dumb Excrement Idiots are you refering to MAGA....
You think that's all that will go? You're about to start paying anew for the things you thought were covered by your taxes. The corporations are about to take charge, my friend, and your bills are heading to the stratosphere.
And most of the things that you need will be gone as well.
@@DrDoohickey Like 2016-2019? Sure buddy.
@@fadetoblack1552Name one thing the federal government provides that we need and isn't even illegal in the first place.
Musk built on government subsidize is gonna cut spending 😂😂
Someone needs to follow the money that gets cut, if possible
Tesla biggest shareholder is blackrock, Vanguard not usa government lmaoo
@Ryanlexz built on government $from federal to state ,space x milking space force budget Facts are facts
@Ryanlexz California and federal put billions into it infact trump is throating to cut ev funding but Musk will get a waiver of course
@Ryanlexz 465 million $ from the feds tax $ to build manufacturing is just a start lol
Biden spent $7,500,000,000 on eight EV charging stations that took 2.5 years to build. This is why we need DOGE.
Good golly miss molly, where on earth did you see that load of bull dooky? Here is the headline from WaPo: Congress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the nation. From Fact Check: Trump is likely referring to $7.5 billion approved by Congress to help build a network of EV chargers across the U.S. over five years. But not all of the money has been spent, or even made available to states yet. Experts say the funds are expected to help build thousands of charging stations and more than 30,000 individual charging ports.
Hey CBS why aren't you reporting on the Lanken Riley case? Oh wait, it goes against your narrative.
#1 its Laken not Lanken.
#2 ruclips.net/video/M_p95J05x1w/видео.htmlsi=-9BBwaipxwOk7bUJ ruclips.net/video/6g0eL2FoQD0/видео.htmlsi=Rk9VY609UuFzw3oR ruclips.net/video/LovkF5iiTzM/видео.htmlsi=6AyxxoaZt1w7lr2p ruclips.net/video/pLwNRhC8e68/видео.htmlsi=-EFb776Ir__mjvCv here's 4 videos from CBS on it from the last 24 hours. I just don't understand......
You've never even seen an illegal immigrant. Who's Trump's boogeyman gonna be after they're gone? He'll have to find some shiny object for you guys to hate & hold your attention while he puts you in poverty and becomes the king.
@@matthewnanos me neither lol
Who?
THEY HAVE SPOKE ABOUT THE CASE😏😏😳😳GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT 🙄🙄🤬
First start looking at the top for fraud waste and abuse.
Top as in White House...? Or no because those billionaires are your friends?
They plan to ... That's part of draining the SWAMP
Trump’s base is about to get a rude awakening!
Those crooks are going fire government employees and put the money in their pockets
Elon Musk is already putting the money in his pockets with the tax subsidies for Tesla and the NASA gravy for space x
Yeah, they're going to chop off the dead wood. Very few gov. employees are actually talented; most are just looking a 9-5 with a six figure salary (sorry ladies but the ride is over)...
Taking down the waste and giving it back to the American Citizens.
That's the goal.
@@Chad_Maxthat's senators and Congress, reduce their pay and benefits
This is an excellent summary of what can possibly happen.
I earned social security. It's mine. If they cut it there will be hell to pay! You think the proud boys are scary? You have no idea what seniors will do.
Get ready for a 20-30% reduction in benefits in about 6 years.....
Only democrats have talked about touching it. Usually taking money from it for their own personal pet projects.
Grow a brain 🤡
@ 😂
They need to cut at least 50%
150%
But not any of Musk's contracts.
@@javaman7199😂😂 or Musks subsidies... the most subsidized man in the world.
Cut at least 75%
75 percent is dangerous, but we need to need to reduce the budget discretionary seriously.
That’s a lot of people on unemployment with no jobs to go to. Gonna make the Trump Economy look terrible. Lots of federal employees work in red states too. It’s going to hurt the state economy as well.
This country's future is being decided by the 3 stooges...😢
Want to know what the future of America will be like? Just look what 14 years of Conservative rule in the UK did
@@Chad_Maxyou’re so close to getting it buddy
Picture a Magats at the unemployment center next year wearing their Make America Great baseball cap!
@@michaelellringer5600 I Remember during the Great Recession when Republicans voted to give 2.1 trillion to bail out the financial institutions that caused the mess and then refused to extend unemployment benefits to Americans who were unemployed because of the Recession
Cope and seethe
Yeah, he did so well with Twitter!!!
When I saw him taking the sink into Twitter, I thought that he was going to through the kitchen sink at it.
@@javaman7199 no, didn't throw the kitchen sink at it, he threw the cesspool at it and it stuck.
Funny that's the only business of his that's not heavily subsidized by taxpayer government money
Defund Congress 😊
Maybe the salaries of all of our government employees like senators and presidents and all that needs to be cut down a little bit to where they're more like the little guy that only makes $40,000 a year
If more was put into goals and priorities. The Little Guy would be making a decent salary to..
6.75 Trillion mandatory is insane. I bet you the whales at the top eat at least 3/4 of that one.
The whole 6.75 isn't mandatory, 2/3rds if it is. (roughly)
Government employees prepare to be scrutinized. Most are superfluous. Retire early and look elsewhere for an income source. Taxpayers have had it.
I hate so see people out of work BUT the government is worse than unions and I hope they are able to cut at least as much as they are saying. The overspending, the waste, the abuse of programs all need to be cleaned up.
The only place they can make cuts that will matter is gutting social security, gutting medicare/medicaid or gutting the military. Take your pick which one you want gone haha
The money will be shifted to dept of labor , where those employees will collect when laid off
Military veterans need jobs and that's where the government comes in.
@@sager122469 I work for an airline, and there are hundreds of military personnel there. There are millions of jobs available in the private sector. The government is not needed.
@@jacquelinequinn9723 Just like any other large corporation that lays off a large amount, they will temporarily get their free government handouts, but they will all get new jobs in the private sector, and they will have to actually put in an honest day's work.
Elon laid off 80% of the people at twitter and it is still running fine. That is the same the federal government has done, they have gotten so fat it is sickening. WE tax payers are paying for all the abuse and curruptoion.
Department of B.S.
Cope and seethe
I know, Joe Biden is B.S. you got that right.
TDS is a very real mental disorder.
aka DOGE SHITE
@@kevinf2757 mommy wants you back in the basement Kev.
Have not yet heard how all these savings will be returned to the American people. With Trump's billion dollar legal fees and Musk's businesses dipping, might be a good idea to keep an eye on where the money goes. No problem, right? Big windfall for the people coming?
No more income tax. For anyone. We can get by with sales tax.
Tariffs will replace income tax
Is this going to reduce my grocery bill?
The hell it is
Not a chance.
Less federal government means less spending which means less inflation. So, yes.
Reducing spending can reduce your tax bill and the tax bill of the companies supplying your groceries, so yes
NOPE!!!!
Putting the guy in charge of government efficiency who laid off 80% of the Twitter staff and now the company is worth a quarter of what he paid for it sounds like a really smart idea said absolutely nobody with half a brain.
He didn't do that to make money
@kevinhikes3132 LoL what are you talking about?
@whoknows3347 👈🏽🤣😂 Constitution?? What are you talking about??
No one ever thought a company losing 4,000,000 a day was worth 44,000,000,000…
You do know Twitter was profitable for the first time ever under Elon.
We are killing the Dollar. Our spending is unsustainable.
Hopefully very likely. This big, bloated government needs to be cleaned up!
This rhetoric, the blonde sounds like a bourocrat. This is exactly what they're hoping to get rid of. Government shouldn't take forever. We need reforms.
Let's see Elon chop and reduce his own subsidies... yeah right 🤪
Edit - The most subsidized man in the world.
There to line their own pockets!
They can fill in the vacancies when trump starts deportation
It better be very likely because that is what Americans demand!!!
It's high time something like this was devised. Govt. waste is astronomical. ANYONE who's worked in a large corporation or government position understands this. Waste, kickbacks, redundancies galore.
The largest source of waste is the government department that cannot pass an audit: the military
The military's audit is ongoing as we speak, in Ukraine. If they win, they pass.
I work as a contractor for one of the agencies Muskrat wants to privatize/abolish, there's nothing left to cut here, we're already potentially putting lives at risk with some cost cutting decisions from on high.
Retire 50% of federal employees.
Keep an eye on that money that gets cut
why, they're not Democrats
@@West_Coast Steve Bannon isn't a Democrat
Yep, right into the people pocket less taxation.unlike Dems right into there pockets just ask Biden
It's going straight to the wealthy.
The wealthy are the only ones that pay taxes. Of course, they get the money to pay taxes from poor people...
WE Hope !!!!!!!!! WE have the highest debt in our nations history. The dollar is weak and that is why gold is up. If something isn't done, the dollar can fall and guess what ? YOU WILL NEVER GET YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY OR MEDICARE ! FACT.
they should have consultants come in and follow every person that works in the government around for a month and show how they waste our money just by wasting time resources
If we cut out waste, we should save money.
Trump, Musk, and Ramaswamy…The Three Stooges
just a reminder how enormous a voting block seniors on SS is😊
2026 Midterms are going to be fun!
They don't care. There will never be another real election if Trump takes office in Jan.
Boomers, babee!
Why are you acting like they will cut SS?
@@webportal6659 Maybe because it keeps showing up in Maga sites as one of the budget expenses that is "faltering" and should be shut down. I think someone needs to remind Trump that Reagan, W, and who knows who else borrowed trillions from SS and never paid it back.
Why is this a problem? Big government is bad government.
Have fun with rampant pollution in your food, in your air, in your water. Have fun with infrastructure falling apart or everything being toll usage. Have fun with your children struggling even more than we did as everything becomes privatized and vastly more expensive.
"Big government is bad government." what utter braindead nonsense, you know what the alternative is? corporations owning you and you having 0 say in any of it.
Time to fire those government departments and employees who do nothing to protect America and make it great.
The kind that monitors the nation's ground water to make sure it is free of harmful chemicals and microbial life and that it's safe for future generations? Or the ones who have jurisdiction to pursue criminals across state lines? Or the scientists whose research goes towards predicting natural phenomena like earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, and volcanic activity to protect Americans. Or the agencies that protect maintain and provide national parks and monuments for the public to enjoy? They sound like a greedy lot of no good alarmists and commies to me... the audacity to call themselves public servants.
Perhaps you can articulate what makes America great. (Things that other countries don't have). Best of luck with that.
We should just get rid of that 2/3 altogether.
It's 45 Years too late to hold Any, Political or Business Executives & Leaders Responsible . Complacency & Acceptance lead Here .
Defund it all. The government shouldn't be in people's lives.
Despotism for all!
The government is the only reason everyone has the lives they do. Public education, healthcare, the legal system, infrastructure, hell your rights, literally everything is thru government. structure and protection.
so if Hamas shows up in tanks to take over your house? Who ya gonna call?
@@suites.74 these clowns think they can Rambo all the problems away.
Fire them all no severance get a job stop being a blood sucker
such department
so efficient
very budget
wow
DoGE is not a real department. They can't cut anything. They can only make recommendations.
Cut welfare and food stamps tired of paying taxes for these people
Wrong Question: there are 435 Agencies, they employ 2,500,000 “Civil Servants,” like Reagan did, they can all be laid off. ALL OF THEM ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Trump is trying have them decide what makes sense to cut and what to keep.
By the way ALL THE REGULATIONS we live under come from these Agencies with very little government oversight.
Because of them, WE ARE SERFS.
Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy are exactly who we need now.
Maybe actually give them a chance
Our social security payments are not “Benefits “. This money is “ our” money taken from our earnings over a lifetime of “our” work. It was to be set aside and invested by the Government so we would have an income after we were retirement age. What happened was when the Government got short on funds due to poor management of their “tax” money, (which by the way came from our pay checks,) the looked over and saw what we had sitting there and “ borrowed “ it. That said they don’t have the right to even call it a Benefit. O
Audit Musk.
Calling it now: if DOGE is actually able to make big cuts, it will actually increase the budget.
Well it will certainly leave necessity for subsidies for businesses in red States if they yank too much Aid. Subsidies nowhere near the level of Musk's own subsidies.
I'd wager my good arm they'll do everything they can to cherry pick canceling what they can against political opponent states first. They'll let that classy side shine.
And?
Yes!
They can't chop too hard it will leave a vacuum black hole in Red States States as far as grocery stores and things like that. Of course then they will introduce subsidies to keep businesses alive, but surely not subsidies on the level that Musk gets... the most subsidized man in the world.
Enough, you sound like those idiots!
The only thing I want to hear, is what the admin is doing about the stolen elections, that should be the piority!
Where did all of the money go from the people that died before the age of retirement??? That money should've been put back into the social security funds and not in some one's pockets!!!???
🇺🇲 SHE HAS NO IDEA OF MANY MANY MORE OTHER EXPENDITURES THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T LET ANYONE KNOW ABOUT.
We went to an HMO office with several people doing the same job - so eventually the HMO went Bankrupt
What about the insane amount of Covid $ that was handed out and never followed up on? Start at the top receivers and work your way down.
End of Bureau of Indian Affairs
Good take from CBS I am impressed
Congress should pay to be part of congress considering ALL the insider trading they do! With the exception of Howley he should be the one in charge and receiving a pay check.
I do not know fed budgets but it seems that just because some area is mandatory does not mean that there are not reductions that cannot take place in those areas.
Pray that DOGE is successful, cutting expenses will save our country from financial collapse and stop constant devaluation of the dollar. Dollars constantly losing value is a stealth tax making everything cost more.
There is no such thing as mandatory spending all spending is discretionary
No, I paid into my Social Security and I want it! Worked since 16, hands off! And Medicare too
Never heard such BS. Maybe learn anything or two before posting. You have entitlements that you've already paid for.
The original post is a nit wit.
Very likely. Game is over.
Get rid of all abc agencies.
That warm fuzzy feeling we get taking our govt back ....
Wonderful if cuts happen!
I have been saying this for sometime audit the agencies and save the country
Vivek is more explicit as to what he will do as head of the DOGE. I think both Elon and Vivek found how serious the situation is and need to take a drastic measure. Only interest payment on national debt is roughly $ 1 T. Former GAO head David Walker has been talking about seriousness of the national debt. Walker said then $ 25 T is the point of no return. Now we are looking at $ 37 T debt. As a Republican who voted for Clinton and Obama, I have been voting for a person right for nation disregarding the party line when it comes to the POTUS. I am surprised these days lots of media is openly talking about $ 37 T national debt all over. I think it is a good sign to deal with national debt problem. And, I want to see national debt issue on every election, city, county, state , federal. I hope every candidate will layout how she/he will be solving national debt with detailed plan with numbers. If I were Trump, I would let Elon and Vivek huge power to do whatever. In the end, it will be all under Trump name. Telling the truth, up until I heard about Elon and vivek and DOGE, I thought there was no hope in this nation's future with attitude of ignoring national debt issue. But, now , we have a chance to live little longer. As a Republican who voted for both Clinton and Obama, I think Dems should wake up and deal with real issue nation is facing.
How likely?
There is no likely.
This is a done deal.
Only commenting here so i can get back to you in four years 😂
Can’t believe how many of you believe promises from a politician 😂
I still haven't heard the media discuss the existing Government Accountability Office. This is pretty much what they do.
And how well have they been working out?
If you had told me 6 years ago that DOGE was a government term I'd have laughed and asked when do I need to step on the butterfly
Could , would, should…. Why don’t you wait until you have some facts. And if you don’t fully agree we need to cut a ton of wasted spending we aren’t buying it. You can’t keep jobs just cause people have a unnecessary job.
The vast majority of civil servants and direct contractors are working very necessary jobs. The "waste" are political appointees and at defense contractors who are not directly employed by an agency so will be outside the scope of "DOGE".
cutting staff would be called mandatory spending..right?
They should also look at waste in our different Embassies.
All these useless positions are gonna be moved to Guam w/ a 5 day in-office work week. There are 100% going away.
You can kiss your social security away and Medicare too . Hope you don’t need it
They aren’t just likely you fool! They are CERTAIN!
The first thing to be cut is See-BS FCC broadcast license .
They’re naming government programs like dodgeball teams
Why don't we wait to find out?
How about this government spending: From 2000 to 2022, the overall VA budget grew from $76 billion to $267 billion (in 2022 $) despite a 30 percent decline (from 26.4 million to 18.4 million) in the veteran population over the same period. From 2000 to 2022, the number of disability compensation recipients with a rating of 70 percent or more increased by 7-fold (from 0.34 million to 2.66 million) while the number with a rating of just 10 or 20 percent hardly changed (from 1.23 million to 1.30 million). This rating system used by the VA encourages disability compensation recipients to apply for increases in their ratings and may discourage some from improving their health. VA spending on the program is now 83 percent as large as for Social Security Disability Insurance, the largest federal disability program that insures 10 times as many adults. These are direct quotes from an article on The Hill: How runaway disability compensation is straining Veterans Affairs, there are some interesting charts as well.
Agencies that are paid millions to watch Hamsters fight on steroids, if selfies are good for you mentally, and genetically weaponized mosquitos are not things we should be spending taxpayer money on.
I wonder if you can add checks and gates to block all fraud without adding new positions and salaries? Or would you just spend a year training an AI to catch it?
What kind of question is how likely? Very likley like 100 percent likley.
DOGE coin crypto is going to blow up this bull run now