About those Government cuts?

Doubtful….

VERY DOUBTFULL….

“They are fighting with the bureaucracy, and the bureaucracy always wins,” said Ray LaHood, who served as a Republican House member from Illinois during the Gingrich era and later became secretary of transportation under President Barack Obama. “They develop to a fare-thee-well every technique possible to stall, delay and make sure things don’t happen.”

Today, Republicans, still basking in their victory in November and coming into full control of Congress and the White House, are promising an ambitious effort to turn the capital upside down in a bold shake-up of the way Washington works, eyeing the elimination of tens of thousands of jobs and entire departments.

“The power of the unelected Federal bureaucracy has grown to become an unconstitutional ‘FOURTH BRANCH’ of government!” Mr. Musk declared in a pinned post on X, the social media platform he owns, adding that the bureaucracy “has become the most powerful branch of government.”

Mr. Musk, tapped by Mr. Trump to join with the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy on a campaign to scale back government, has been enthusiastically embraced by many Republicans in the House. They plan to form a special panel to work with what Mr. Musk has called the Department of Government Efficiency, to be led by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing firebrand from Georgia….

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In the end, lawmakers typically find that every federal program has a protective constituency and that there is only so much “waste, fraud and abuse” they are able to recoup. The real savings have to come from changes in federal benefit and health programs, far more politically charged topics than cutting out congressional ice runs…

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“If you don’t have the career professionals signing on and saluting, you get nothing done,” said Mr. LaHood, the former congressman and cabinet secretary. “Nothing.”

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