[boringg]

You are really giving him a lot of credit here. Thats mostly the news cycle doing what it does - focusing on the big stories and loudest speakers.

[manphone]

He ran a government institution that recklessly cut public spending and hurt us all. What are you talking about?

[swingboy]

DOGE only cut like $7 billion dollars which is nothing in the bigger picture.

[kccoder]

Their ineffectiveness at reducing the debt doesn't indicate the changes they made didn't have an outsized effect on many lives. USAID for example.

[mrhottakes]

He was the de facto head of an effort to drastically cut the federal government, and he's donated hundreds of millions of dollars to get Trump and Trump-adjacent people elected. I ask again: do you read the news?