Die USA erreichen Schulden in Höhe von 38 Billionen US-Dollar, nachdem außerhalb der Pandemie die schnellste Anhäufung von 1 Billion US-Dollar stattgefunden hat. Kann mich jemand daran erinnern, welchen Sinn DOGE und die drakonischen Kürzungen der Bundesregierung hatten?

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-hits-38-trillion-in-debt-after-the-fastest-accumulation-of-1-trillion-outside-of-the-pandemic

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    1. > Can someone remind me, what was the point of DOGE and the draconian cuts to the Federal Government?

      Data extraction, mainly.

      Leon ‚backed up‘ the databases of the IRS, social security, DMV, health, state department — pretty much all the data the government holds that used to belong to you.

    2. BulletsInTheBhole on

      Kill investigations, gut government agencies that regulate things, gut public services for tax breaks for the rich and corporations.

      That was the point of doge, and it was very efficiënt at doing those things. Hope this helps!

    3. Wow. I had no idea the United States was in so much debt. Those numbers are crazy.

    4. FossilFrothy on

      Prices are at an all time high and climbing higher, tariffs have been slapped on every conceivable product from every country on earth based entirely on how much/little other country’s leaders massage Trump’s ego, housing prices continue to soar, the cost of college continues to explode, childcare is still unaffordable for almost everyone…

      I thought Trump was going to magically drop prices the minute he took office, and DOGE would usher in a new era of productivity to the Federal Government. But yet somehow, affordability is still the biggest problem almost 1 year into Trump’s 2nd term, and the Federal Government is deeper in debt than it’s ever been, and rising faster than anytime outside of the pandemic.

      Something doesn’t add up.

    5. InsideAside885 on

      Any cuts or savings they make (which are always to programs that benefit the poor) is just handed to the rich and pay back to the party donors.

      No different from any other Republican administration.

    6. DOGE was a scam, Elon used it to get access to sensitive information, and it was used in a partisan manner to target democrat-friendly organizations for defunding, while doing nothing about the biggest line items in our budget (military and social security). There is no political will to fix our budget, certainly not from Republicans, who are notorious deficit spenders.

      If Americans cared about reducing our deficit, reduce spending on military, social security, and ICE, while increasing funding to the IRS. You don’t have to go crazy with increasing the tax rate on the richest, but you certainly shouldn’t be trying to give massive tax cuts to the rich every chance you get. You would focus on growing the economy, so you have a larger tax sum to take a slice of, which means no regarded tariffs that depresses economic activity.

    7. The USA is already the walking dead they just don’t know it yet. The economy has failed, it has been so since Trump was allowed to gain power again.

    8. In other news. The people who bought this government are doing quite well in this hellscape economy.

    9. He bankrupted. A casino. A literal money making machine. He bankrupted a casino! Why did anyone think he knew a goddamn thing about money?!

    10. MrPantsyFlants on

      DOGE and this whole administration wants to transfer the wealth of the middle class, to the hands of the ultra wealthy.

    11. EstablishmentFast128 on

      it was all about stopping investigation by 12 agencies and finding immigrants and payback for stealing the election

    12. OhGodSoManyQuestions on

      DOGE did succeed in destroying agencies that were investigating crimes by Musk’s companies. And released all private and sensitive data about US citizens into unknown and unsecured hands. The shuttering of USAID will kill hundreds of thousands of mostly nonwhite people. And it helped to shut down the Department of Education, cutting education funding nationwide and causing deep, generational harm to nonwhite and working Americans.

      So while its run was cut short, it did achieve exactly the kinds of things Musk wanted from it.

    13. BenevolentDog on

      What happened to the TRILLIONS of dollars pouring in from other countries?

    14. PrivatePilot9 on

      Wait until the tariffs are invalidated by the Supreme Court and on top of it all.

    15. It was to loot america of value and it continues still.
      This is like when a company is bought out and the new owners gut everything of value from it and then scrap the rest.

    16. For FElon Musk to fire all the people investigating his crimes, steal contracts, and allow Peter Thiel to steal all the citizen’s data. And it worked.

    17. Competitive_Yam7702 on

      What was the point? To siphon off those funds into trump and his friends bank accounts, with no traceability whatsoever.

    18. The point was a showy display of reduction while the only thing reduced was the tax burden of the ultra wealthy and corporations.

    19. It’s almost as if Conservatives have been wrong about everything this whole time.

    20. Depressed-Industry on

      The point of DOGE was to gut agencies that are or might stand in the way of Elon making more money. Oh, and to steal all the data they could to train Grok.

    21. Jimmy_Beam27 on

      The point of doge was to steal data and information which they did the first day.

    22. GirdedByApathy on

      It was to do material damage to the ability of the federal government to function. In every way that matters, the government today is less responsive, less capable, ans less motivated.

    23. ATDT_No-Carrier on

      A distraction while Trump passed legislation to move $1T to the rich.

      Treasonist.

    24. AmericanDoughboy on

      Owning the libs and, eventually, replacing career civil service with MAGA loyalists.

    25. nobodyisfreakinghome on

      In return for winning Trump the election, Elmo got to dismantle all the investigations against him.

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