[anthonypasq]

> despite an extremely well-supported project to do just that

a weird extremely small executive branch task force with pretty much zero power is not what i would call a well supported project in the context of the trying to reduce spending in the american government.

Congress controls the purse, doge had nothing to do with congress.

[jimbokun]

Well they certainly had enough power to fuck a lot of shit up, if not enough power to meaningfully impact the budget deficit.

[enragedcacti]

Tell it to the hundreds of thousands of dead people that doge had zero power. It didn't seem to matter that their aid was congressionally allocated, so sorry if I'm skeptical that doge was ineffective because of an abundance of restraint and respect for separation of powers.

[brightball]

> hundreds of thousands of dead people

No reports have substantiated this talking point to my knowledge.