No no, billionaires would never steal money after closing down oversight and watchdog agencies, then brazenly starting a new ''office of mysterious authority you don't get to background check that operates in the dark'' and using it to access the most sensitive parts of US government fictionallity. That's crazy talk!

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You guys are literally fighting against government transparency and stopping wasteful spending of your (or at least someone elses) tax dollars because you have an irrational hatred for the guy. Absolutely insane. No one should be against what DOGE is doing - unless of course you're one of the many people profiting from the blank cheques being handed out wastefully.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 1 points 1 hour ago

the blank cheques being handed out wastefully

What blank cheques exactly?

And I'm not sure how you do it down in oz, but in most other countries, the government creates budgets for each agency, and those agencies then decide how to allocate their funds. If the government thinks that some agency is wasting too much money, they reduce their budget. There's not supposed to be a king who decides all that on a whim.

And how many "blank cheques" to the defense industry have been investigated? Surprise, because it's not about cutting "wasteful spending".