>It's easy to just go online and say "this is wrong these people are idiots" but what is your alternative solution?
For starters, these people are in fact idiots. They randomly fired people at NNSA with virtually no warning. What the fuck? [0]
In response to your point: Why throw USDS in the trash? That was a great example of an effective, agile non-partisan tech workforce. [1]
Now federal workers are having to submit to political loyalty tests. [2]
Perhaps their true intentions here aren't really cost savings, if that isn't blatantly obvious already.
>We have exhausted pretty much every other method at this point, all the big consulting firms have also come in and tried to assist, ...
That's like trying to cure cancer with cancer, but on the face of it and not in some clever cutting-edge way.
Actual solutions? Take highly effective organizations and copy them. USDS and JSOC come to mind.
I don't buy it. Shucks, we've exhausted every other method—therefore, the solution here is to hand over the reigns to immature, extremely low caliber people with conflicts of interest that are absolutely massive [3], and whose motivations are questionable at best?
Yeah, no thanks. I dislike government waste and inefficiency as much as the next person, but using the guise of cost cutting to rapidly install loyalists at critical power junctures isn't a good thing. Never mind the flagrant disregard for the law that's taking place as this is all unfolding.
For starters, these people are in fact idiots. They randomly fired people at NNSA with virtually no warning. What the fuck? [0]
In response to your point: Why throw USDS in the trash? That was a great example of an effective, agile non-partisan tech workforce. [1]
Now federal workers are having to submit to political loyalty tests. [2]
Perhaps their true intentions here aren't really cost savings, if that isn't blatantly obvious already.
>We have exhausted pretty much every other method at this point, all the big consulting firms have also come in and tried to assist, ...
That's like trying to cure cancer with cancer, but on the face of it and not in some clever cutting-edge way.
Actual solutions? Take highly effective organizations and copy them. USDS and JSOC come to mind.
I don't buy it. Shucks, we've exhausted every other method—therefore, the solution here is to hand over the reigns to immature, extremely low caliber people with conflicts of interest that are absolutely massive [3], and whose motivations are questionable at best?
Yeah, no thanks. I dislike government waste and inefficiency as much as the next person, but using the guise of cost cutting to rapidly install loyalists at critical power junctures isn't a good thing. Never mind the flagrant disregard for the law that's taking place as this is all unfolding.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-...
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/doge-engineering-director-resign...
[2] https://apnews.com/article/trump-loyalty-white-house-maga-ve...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-com...