Welcome to the Department of Government Idiocy
Briefly

"The nominal charge of the group the pair will captain—the Department of Government Efficiency—is to eliminate wasteful government spending. But as Trump's announcement carefully stipulated, their collaboration...will occur outside of government."
"Musk exulted in the announcement...posting a piece of fan art with a mockup of a logo featuring the new group's acronym, DOGE. Its logo, which...is a crude version of a dog mascot."
"Musk's amazing run of never once being funny...The post on X also registered something more ominous: The main chieftain of the cost-cutting agency sports a massive array of economic conflicts of interest."
"Following Trump's announcement, Dogecoin instantly boomed in investment markets, replicating the same trend across the whole shady crypto sector, which anticipates a deregulatory bonanza after donating fully half of all corporate money to the 2024 campaign."
Read at The Nation
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