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Despite aggressive cost-cutting by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, federal spending has reportedly climbed by $154 billion since Donald Trump returned to office.

Government spending is significantly higher under Trump's second term compared to the same period in 2024 under Joe Biden, according to the analysis by the Wall Street Journal, citing the Treasury Department’s daily financial statements.

The increase—$154 billion—comes even as DOGE, led by Elon Musk, touts $150 billion in cost savings through job cuts, contract terminations, and the rollback of diversity and aid programs.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Soooooo whatcha spending it all on, Cheeto? Elmo, you?

And of course Elmo didn't really make anything more efficient, he just looked at the government like an engine, took out the oil and gasoline filter, cuz only pussies use filters , took out three out of 6 cylinder because those three cylinders can just work a little harder, he took out the spark plugs because we don't party at the government, we just work hard, and he took out the clutch a nf gears because he's the world's greatest engineer, right? The engine then obviously never started again but that isn't the point, it's much lighter now, not?

Elmo are workds greatest engineer, yay!

And a large group of people actually applauded

Oh, did I mention that an enormous amount of money that elmo possesses he got from those same government for doing shit he never did? Three billion dollars to get us ready to go to Mars and for that we've seen Elmo blow up a banana over the Indian ocean. As ridiculous as they sounds, that's literally what we got.

Meanwhile Elmo has secrets been killing all the organizations that should control and or stop him, and nobody had batted an eye because that's the world we live in

Fuck Elmo, fuck Tesla, fuck spacext and fuck Elmo defenders. No, SpaceX is not an actually great company, it's a scam company, just like Elmo is.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Also his tech 'geniuses' are a bunch of kids whose knowledge of computers and networks only extends to being able to facilitate cybercrimes. 'Big Balls', that 19 year old punk, absolutely did tech support for cybercriminals when he was in high school. They don't know jack shit about computer science and sure as HELL do not understand the complexity of dealing with a massive system like the Social Security database.

I studied CS on my own time for years and even took a web dev bootcamp (still didn't get the job, sadly), and even looking at their bullshit attempts at 'modernizing' the older database is heart-attack inducing. I remember when I was in bootcamp we all had to make a brand new site from scratch, but they also made it clear that in the real world it is a rare occasion that we actually get to make a brand new site for a client, and almost always we will be working with a massive existing site that can have a massive combination of old and new coding that has been around since forever.

Take some sites like Amazon or eBay. They've been around since the 90s. You think the website was once taken down in its entirety and had something entirely new made? That didn't happen. They were built slowly over time, tweaked, improved, had the substitute newer parts slowly and steadily integrated before taking over the older stuff.

But something like the SS database is something far, far larger and far far more important than either eBay or Amazon. If something goes wrong with amazon and I lose my ancient account, then so what? I can just make a new account, and I won't be impacted. Hell, it might be a good thing since as a privacy guy, I would like it if I could have all my previous purchases purged from time to time. But I do not want shit from the government that I absolutely need as long as I live (and even for relatives who would survive me) destroyed like that on a big 'whoopsie!'