DOGE Is What We’ve Been Waiting For – Top 3 Takeaways – February 13th, 2025
- What the DOGE order does. I've now arrived at the point where I not only think that DOGE is a great idea, but that DOGE may prove to be the most important federal government entity of my lifetime. In a House subcommittee hearing on DOGE on Wednesday one of the headlines that emerged from the hearing was this: DOGE says cuts are saving $1 billion a day. Except, that’s actually an understatement. As of yesterday, DOGE had been on the job for 22 days and had delivered savings of $36.9 billion, or $1.71 billion per day to be more exact. My appreciation for this isn’t just the fact that I’ve been waiting my entire life for a president who would actually cut the federal government, reduce the bureaucracy, and thus intrinsically pass more freedom back to the people which is what this country was founded upon and where it belongs... It’s also due to the fact that the federal government had become so fat that it threatened to kill this country of a heart attack. It was Abraham Lincoln, in what was dubbed his “Die by Suicide” speech, who said this: If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Several variations of that have falsely been attributed to Lincoln, a la America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. He never said that though you’ll find it all over the place online. Anyway, what Lincoln actually said is on point. If this country were to go down, it would be due to suicide and I’m pretty sure it would involve the federal government retirement mine from the 1950’s that Elon Musk and DOGE uncovered as being the determining factor (either that or our country collapsing under a debt crisis due to our rising and unsustainable debt). As Musk pointed out in Tuesday’s presser with President Trump, he was told that the maximum number of federal government retirements that can happen per month is 10,000 because we literally pay $55.8 million per year for 700 federal government employees to operate an old limestone mine where federal government retirement paperwork is stored. And because it’s literally a manual paper process involving federal employees using an elevator to move around a mine from the 1950’s, which is when this method of storage began, they can’t process more than 10,000 federal government retirements per month. Now bypassing the mind-blowing reality that the federal government’s paperwork processes are completely manual in 2025 and involve a mine...
- What business would be in existence today if it operated, literally, the exact same way it did 70 years ago? But that’s the federal government for you. With every layer of the onion that’s peeled back there’s so much more that’s found than could have been imagined. The federal bureaucracy, as DOGE continues to expose it, is proving to be stranger than reality. No science fiction interpretation required. But of course, the left continues to lose its mind, and file lawsuits left and right to attempt to hide all of the literal and proverbial mines that exist within the federal government. This is why President Trump signed his second DOGE related executive order this week. And what’s in that order...
- Is eye opening. The newest DOGE order isn’t just the president of the United States saying, no really, I want DOGE to be able to do what my original executive order said that I wanted them to do with a few extra words aimed at appeasing pinheaded Marxist judges who’ll file injunctions to block DOGE from seeing 90% of what the federal government agencies have been spending money on. No, it’s also an operational roadmap for the federal government. As the order states: The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government's workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition (Plan). The Plan shall require that each agency hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart. This ratio shall not apply to functions related to public safety, immigration enforcement, or law enforcement. Already this is music to my ears. Consider this – the average churn of the non-essential federal workforce is about 7%, or 150,000 employees per year. That’s independent of the greater than 60,000 who’ve agreed to accept buyouts at the time the judge stayed the plan, or the approximate 10,000 who’ve already been let go. Elon Musk estimated that the federal workforce needed to shrink by at least 30%. What this order means is that with a minimum of three-quarters of vacated government positions being eliminated...if left in place for all of four years...At a minimum 21%, or a fifth of the federal government as it exists today by Trump’s last day. This is a powerful tool. Democrats may be able to find Marxists on the bench who’re trying to prevent Donald Trump from Making America Great Again, by keeping the status quo employees and government programs in place...but what they can’t do, even through judicial activism, is to force the administration to hire. But that’s not all that’s in the order – so is this: Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law, and to separate from Federal service temporary employees and reemployed annuitants working in areas that will likely be subject to the RIFs. All offices that perform functions not mandated by statute or other law shall be prioritized in the RIFs. So be it through “large-scale layoffs” or through attrition – it does appear as though Trump is working with DOGE on multiple paths to MAGA by making the federal government far smaller again. For me, this is what I’ve been waiting my entire life to see.