The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk as co-leader, has advantages that past budget-cutters did not, but laws and court challenges can still make change slow and difficult.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    381·
    23 days ago

    Elon doesn’t like it when things are slow and difficult, so maybe he’ll get bored and find something else to amuse his sadistic little mind.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    303·
    23 days ago

    I dunno, unlike the Democrats, Republicans don’t sit around whining that the Parliamentarian “won’t let them” do something.

    They fire the fucker in their way and replace them with a toady who will do whatever they say.

    They have a pretty good track record with that the last administration, and they’re actually coming in prepared to do it this time.

    “Oh such and such will block it.”

    Not when they’re shitcanned from their job and replaced with a fucking toady.

    And based on last administration, lots of the people who were expected to block Trump just stepped down instead of putting up any kind of fight, literally just allowing themselves to be replaced with toadies.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    It takes a truly bureaucratic mind—someone with a sensibility for relentless, daily tedium—to dismantle bureaucracy.

    Democracy, by contrast, is far easier to unravel than state bureaucracy. Bureaucratic systems often outlast governments, as seen with the colonial administrations in Africa and South Asia. Bureaucracy is designed to be “portable” across different regimes and transfers of power.

    Elon is likely facing a long and tiresome road ahead—one he’ll almost certainly abandon in some spectacularly embarrassing fashion within two months. Bureaucracy endures because it’s so deeply embedded in the everyday, utterly quotidian and entwined with, like, everything.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
      3·
      23 days ago

      You know when you put it like that, I can see just a glimpse of why Hermes (futurama) likes it so much. I hope you are right and that beurocracy spares us the worst of his bullshit

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    23 days ago

    Is the first hurdle that this new agency doesn’t exist at all, and that he has zero authority at the moment?

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      23 days ago

      It never will. Federal agencies are created by acts of Congress. And we already have the Government Accountability Office for audits.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    71·
    23 days ago

    I wonder what the “there was never a DNC vote for Harris” people are doing now that a billionaire gets to meddle in the US budget without being elected

    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
      62·
      23 days ago

      Probably feeling pretty smug and saying I told you so. They were right, without a primary to get a candidate that voters wanted the DNC lost. It’s up to the candidate to earn the voters.

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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      22 days ago

      Can you point to a time when the US budget hasn’t been meddled with by unelected billionaires? They fund all these candidates precisely because they want to meddle with this stuff without having the responsibility of holding office or being held accountable for their actions.