Out of Order

The problem with the "Department of Government Efficiency," as summed up in a single headline: US government tries to rehire nuclear staff it fired days ago.

While simply bulldozing a home is one way to "clean up," that's not the same as it being an effective way to do it. Simply going in an firing people whom working-class White people in Red states feel are slackers is not the same as doing the work to streamline an organization; and the people whose opinions really matter, like business executives and investors understand this. The fact that the government of the United States spends more money than it takes in has been on people's radars ever since Ronald Reagan decided that using deficit spending to fund lowering taxes was a good idea. And there's going to be real benefits in fixing that. But it has to be an actual fix, and not simply shutting things off, and then asking what they do.