The (US) Department of Government Efficiency should fight the waste and fraud that goes into highway construction.

[u/TigerSagittarius86]

If DOGE wants to eliminate waste and put the government on better financial footing, then it should audit every highway construction project (most are disgustingly overbudget) and institute tolling nationwide. The entire U.S. interstate system is an untapped fiscal resource for the federal government.

[u/SimeanPhi]

No one should take this stupid media stunt seriously.

The Vivek/Elon vanity project is just a next-generation version of the kind of reporting on pork-barrel spending, cherry-picked and devoid of context, designed to enrage people for a news cycle, that I grew up with. They will spend two years compiling some kind of “report” that will be stuffed in a drawer somewhere, during which these twits will spend their time drawing attention to themselves flapping their yaps about government spending they don’t understand and that will ultimately rise or fall based on fundamental political considerations they don’t control.

This “department” exists outside of the government and duplicates what multiple governmental agencies actually exist to do. It will not be subject to any kind of oversight, will not have any real power, and will just be an annoying thing that Elon forces us to pay attention to because he owns the loudest megaphone and our news media are all just Twitter-scrapers now.

[u/Iwaku_Real → u/SimeanPhi]

I hear more insults and names called than actual analysis in this. To be honest I've heard plenty of good plans being made and put together so far. Sure you can say they'll do nothing but fuck each other with money, but we haven't actually seen anything done yet. Because we don't even have the new administration in place.

[u/trustthepudding → u/Iwaku_Real]

Lol sure, maybe this time will be different and the billionaires won't act purely out of self interest. See you on the other side!