Elon Musk’s blind sledgehammer: DOGE is chopping government it doesn’t understand

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Elon Musk’s blind sledgehammer: DOGE is chopping government it doesn’t understand

The federal budget can absolutely use some trimming, but Elon Musk’s quasi-formal Department of Government Efficiency isn’t using the needed scalpel, or even a chainsaw that he waved around on Thursday, but a bulldozer, recklessly plowing under great swaths of essential government with no regard to effectiveness or efficiency. Musk and his team have delivered chaos, with mass firings and layoffs of probationary employees and others across govern…