No.
But why would the richest man in the world care in a consequence-free clusterfuck?
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No. He has effectively coup'd the US government from within.
No.
Golden rule: whoever has the gold, makes the rules.
Yes.
No.
What's anyone gonna do about it though? He basically bought America, and now he's doing with it the same thing he did with Twitter - running it into the ground so that later he can sell off the pieces at profit.
It depends: does Trump approve of it?
Then still no, but it's not like facts matter or anything so...
No.
Is it responsible reporting to pose this as a question?
No
We have several systems find waste, fraud & abuse
Inspector General
Government Accounting Office
Office of Management & Budget
All of which are routinely ignored by both houses of Congress
If a mandate actually existed the Congress would have no problem actually doing their job & writing some law
It's no coincidence that every system Elmo is hacking is investigating illegal activity within his companies/government contracts
Another tell tale sign is that DoD, the traditional home of waste, fraud & abuse isn't the primary target
It’s not an efficiency drive, it’s an eliminate programs that they don’t like or don’t care about drive, efficiency is just a dog whistle in this context.
They want to free up budget and positions for the sake of paying off people they need the support of. Budget for “special projects” and budget for tax cuts so wealthy people not in on the con don’t complain to much.
It has the side benefit of making it easier to subjugate federal workers, instill terror with in them so they will just play along for fear of being fired.
From their perspective it seems like an efficient strategy to get what they want, but they’re being a bit myopic about what is important and don’t realize how many problems they are causing that can now directly be blamed on them come the next election cycle.
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