The Musk Raiders hasn’t saved much of ANYTHING they hoped to….
Their numbers , under study , seem to be full of holes….
They are despised by just about EVERYBODY….
And now we find out?
They have put in place things that heve actually madse life WORSE for the Government workers they didn’t help get rid of….
Some of us have always felt that the US Government ‘System’ would ALWAYS get the last word…..
It HAS….
It WILL and IS surviving ….
(And maybe actually costing MORE Money and Time?)
Trump…DOGE or Project 2025 be DAMN….
Then he got busy: The work-around, he knew, would take time. First, he got his ambassador’s signed approval to hire the vendor anyway. Next, he filled out an Office 365 form justifying the expense in 250 words before selecting which “pillar” of necessary spending it fell under, choosing from options including “Safer, Stronger, More Prosperous.” After submitting that to higher-ups and getting their sign-off, he filled out yet another form — this one destined for political appointees back in Washington.
A week later, the vendor was secured. Under any previous administration, it would have taken one day, the employee said.
Similar layers of new red tape are plaguing federal staffers throughout the government under the second Trump administration, stymieing work and delaying simple transactions, according to interviews with more than three dozen federal workers across 19 agencies and records obtained by The Washington Post. Many of the new hurdles, federal workers said, stem from changes imposed by the U.S. DOGE Service, Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, which burst into government promising to eradicate waste, fraud and abuse and trim staff and spending.
The team’s overarching goal was in its name: DOGE stands for Department of Government Efficiency, although it is not part of the Cabinet. But as Musk departed government on Friday, many federal workers said DOGE has in many ways had the opposite effect.
DOGE’s intense scrutiny of federal spending is forcing employees to spend hours justifying even the most basic purchases. New rules mandating review and approval by political appointees are leaving thousands of contracts and projects on ice for months. Large-scale firings spearheaded by DOGE have cut support offices — especially IT shops — that assisted federal workers with issues ranging from glitching computers to broken desk chairs. And the piecemeal reassignment of staff is causing significant lags in work in some agencies, notably Social Security, as inexperienced workers adjust to new roles….
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Many presidents try to reshape the sprawling federal bureaucracy to achieve their specific policy goals, said George Krause, a University of Georgia professor who studies public administration. Such efforts span Democratic and Republican administrations back to Richard M. Nixon, whose political appointees were known for clashing with career federal executives, Krause said.
But the DOGE-driven efforts appear to be backfiring in ways that other initiatives did not.
“What Musk showed is that you cannot do this without a plan, and if you do it without a plan that respects some of the functions of government that everybody wants, then what’s going to happen is you’ll end up making the government less efficient, and not more efficient,” said Elaine Kamarck, director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and a former Clinton administration official….
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To sum it up, “you now have half the staff with very little knowledge of how to do the work,” one relocated staffer said. “And the other half of staff overwhelmed with work and unable to really train or mentor these new folks.”…
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In other places, staff dismissals or departures are tripping up operations, as employees struggle to keep up with a sharply increased workload.
One office in the Transportation Department lost nearly 15 percent of its staff, who were fired as probationary employees, then rehired, then promptly took advantage of the administration’s second-round deferred resignation offer to leave for good, said a worker there.
“Now, all those jobs and responsibilities [have fallen on] everyone left,” the worker said. “There’s a learning curve, no knowledge transfer, and in some cases no access to do the job for a while. Lots of productivity lost.”…
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