[nomel]

How many people work for Doge? It's only been a month, after all. From what I've seen, I assume from their limited staffing, they're moving from department to department, rather than attempting to look at all departments in the government at once. It's seems reasonable to target the military later, for PR and utilitarian reasons.

[ryandrake]

You would think, with limited staffing, they'd want to start by focusing their efforts on departments where they could have a much bigger impact. Yet they decide to start with such small potatoes instead of the huge spenders?

It feels as though I'm trying to cut down my household spending and I focus on canceling my $15/mo Netflix account rather than negotiate down my $1000/mo credit card bill or work on finding an apartment that's $1500/mo rather than $4500/mo.

[nomel]

Military is pretty far down the list on total spent [1].

SS is biggest spending, and one of the first departments. USAID was viewed, by the administration, as being 100% waste.

Rather than starting at the biggest spender (and subjective greatest waste), what do you see as the metric for ordering? Do you think PR should be involved in the ordering? Do you think the administration ordered based on PR?

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-u-s-gover...