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DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services

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Re: DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services

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> Seeing as how the current administration currently has a very high approval rating Source? Trust me bro?

I normally don't like to do homework for random people on HN, but it's roughly 52% at the moment: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5161231-trump-ho...

> very high approval rating

> 52%

lol

Re: DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services

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> the side that doesn’t want a reduction in wasteful spending This is an utterly delusional view. No one is cheering government waste. Turn off your computer, go outside, and talk to real human beings.

"No one is cheering government waste. " Of course they aren't. This was all hidden from us for the last 4 years (and probably longer). "This is an utterly delusional view." All of these articles and interviews only show anger about the people being fired and even when there are examples of waste, it's completely ignored. Who is the delusional one here? "Turn off your computer, go outside, and talk to real human being…

> This was all hidden from us for the last 4 years (and probably longer).

What, precisely was hidden? Government spending is highly public, the only difference now is that you have people misrepresenting or outright lying about it for political reasons.

Re: DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Seeing as how the current administration currently has a very high approval rating Source? Trust me bro?

I normally don't like to do homework for random people on HN, but it's roughly 52% at the moment: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5161231-trump-ho...

That's one poll of less than 3,000 people and an outlier.

Reuters has: Trump approval rating holds steady at 44% https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-rating-holds...

and the poll aggregate ATM have him under 50% with more against than for.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/dona...

Re: DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services

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There’s so much hyperbole from the side that doesn’t want a reduction in wasteful spending and is resisting what voters asked for. Audits, accountability, and efficiency projects are all normal in the corporate world. It should be normal for government agencies as well. There have been similar efforts in some past administrations too. The real danger to America is doing nothing, which means continued runaway debt, an…

That's not it at all. The Trump administration is making a power grab. They're cutting down the Federal Bureaucracy as much as possible so it doesn't get in their way, and they're replacing everyone they can with loyalists at the top. This is all under the pretense of reducing wasteful spending.
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