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Is it me or has the media just latched on to a completely made up government department? I don't know why I have to say this but DOGE is not a real thing. If they want to create a new department then congress needs to write and pass a bill to do it. We also ALREADY have a department for this so the irony is just dripping here.
I did hear NPR at least clarify that it would not be a "department", but instead just some advisory body.
They also pointed out that the closest analog would be the grace commission, but that was largely ignored in the end.
So they can make recommendations, but no authority to make them happen. Currently every sycophant Republican is talking up just how much they are in support of the vague concept of this body, but it's quite likely that if they ever make specific recommendations, they are probably going to face much more rigorous objections. Republicans have a tendency to complain loudly about the abstract, but then not want to touch any specifics that might have blow back.
See also how they easily kept passing killing the ACA when they knew it would be vetoed and the second they actually knew it wouldn't be vetoed they lost their appetite for it (admittedly they came close, but still it took them a long time to even try).
You still think that anything works the way we're told it does? 🥲
Well at least spare some tinfoil with that attitude
FWIW, tinfoil doesn't reflect well, and would actually focus what it's purported (by the deficient/misled/both) to fortify against.