Can the DOGE Take a Bite Out of Washington?
By Ward Clark | 3:42 PM on November 20, 2024
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Some years back, one of my smart-aleck sons-in-law (I hasten to note that "smart-aleck" could apply to any of the three) gave me an interesting Christmas gift: a Cold Steel replica of a medieval Viking battle-axe. It's an interesting thing, big, long, heavy, and no doubt deadly in battle. For any serious difference of opinion, given my age, I'd prefer to have a firearm handy, but if one needed to rely on some pre-gunpowder technology for one's self-defense, this thing would sure get the job done. Its very appearance might deter a goblin who harbors ill intent. The Viking battle-axe was designed to un-alive opponents by doing immediate and overwhelming damage up to and including the traumatic removal of body parts.
Today, there aren't many Vikings running around detaching body parts. (That's a good thing if you ask me.) But Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been given the task of taking a metaphorical Viking battle-axe to the federal government. An editorial over at Issues & Insights notes that they may face some serious challenges - and opportunities.
First, a quick look at the damage done: Total spending for fiscal 2024, which ended in September, was $6.752 trillion, a 52% gain from 2019’s pre-COVID $4.447 trillion. Do the math: It’s a 52% gain, for an average of just over 10% a year.
Meanwhile, thanks to our trillion-dollar annual deficits, federal debt has exploded from “just” $22.7 trillion in 2019 to $36 trillion currently, a 59% rise in just five years.
Meanwhile, thanks to our trillion-dollar annual deficits, federal debt has exploded from “just” $22.7 trillion in 2019 to $36 trillion currently, a 59% rise in just five years.
That's the damage. The federal bureaucracy is, yes, feather-bedded to hell and gone, and that's a good place for the DOGE to start gnawing away. But to get this madness under control, to stop this hole from getting deeper, we need to stop digging. That means entitlement reform, and not just around the edges.
“We expect mass reductions,” Ramaswamy recently told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo. “We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts of all federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government. So, yes, we expect all of the above.”
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