politics

For all the hype around DOGE there will be little to no progress on reducing the Federal debt because Republicans are fiscally incompetent liars

Republicans' plan to cut the deficit:

1. Pretend a $5.5 trillion tax cut costs $0
2. Increase spending a very small amount
3. I guess maybe the unstated part is Elon Musk will do some crimes now that he's running the Treasury payment system? 

https://t.co/l6uq8TYxpF https://t.co/9eCZKgLH8h

Matthew Yglesias

For all the hype around DOGE there will be little to no progress on reducing the Federal debt because Republicans are fiscally incompetent liars

https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1885727222079672563

Coinbase employee (Investigatooor), personal account. Onchain is the future.

And if you’re a voter who thought anything otherwise and based based your vote on that, you are almost certainly a rube

Pretty sure the plan is just to not pay those that are inconvenient.