DOGE Can’t Do It All. Here’s What It Can Do.
PoliticoHere’s the thing: those are completely different objectives that can be in conflict. “We’re looking to save maybe $2 trillion, and it’ll have no impact — actually it’ll make life better — but it’ll have no impact on people,” he told reporters about DOGE on Monday. “We will never cut Social Security.” For now, the DOGE project is broad — identifying regulations that its co-heads deem to be a government overreach, or even agencies that they think shouldn’t exist. The “first buddy” so far seems to be taking a hardball approach, posting on X that politicians who oppose Trump’s agenda “will lose their primary/election. “And I said, ‘Guess what, fellas, I don’t either.’” But given the practical limits of DOGE’s power, it will need to have buy-in — from lawmakers, from the incoming Cabinet as well and, of course, from Trump.
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