Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025 | 2 a.m.
The aim of the brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE, is to streamline authorities expenditures and make the system extra environment friendly — saving American taxpayers from undue and pointless prices.
The American authorities is $36 trillion in debt and the price of all these packages are exorbitant. The Trump administration must deal with authorities’s important expenditures.
The army is a serious authorities expense, at $820 billion a yr, or $2.24 billion a day. For many who don’t fairly grasp the distinction between one million and a billion: 1,000,000 seconds is 11 days, whereas a billion seconds is 32 years.
The Pentagon, yearly, provides Congress an inventory of bases that may be closed. It says these bases have been constructed to win World Warfare II, that as many as 30% of America’s army bases can and ought to be closed. However Congress is reluctant to behave due to the financial affect of such closures.
We can not proceed to soak up all these pointless, wasteful expenditures. Up to now, DOGE is specializing in charity and the poor; this isn’t the place to start out. Let’s see if DOGE is definitely critical about its mission.
