From the Washington Post:
… Chief among [DOGE’s] plans: Using their tech expertise to build apps and websites to help federal workers and Americans trying to access government services, according to two people familiar with DOGE internal workings. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, a close friend of Musk’s who was responsible for the company’s inviting look, has been recruited to help lead the effort. Even this has invited criticism, however. Musk has repeatedly criticized Social Security, one of the government’s most popular programs, and DOGE staffers have been working inside the agency. But an effort to give the Social Security website and services a user-friendly digital overhaul was already underway at the U.S. Digital Service — until Musk pushed out the team working on it, according to Mina Hsiang, who led the USDS before the department became the U.S. DOGE Service in January.
“When you fire people who have deep understandings of the mission you want to accomplish, you’re sort of starting from zero,” she said. …
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-b21b74f56f30012a6450a629e7232a1a
ReplyDeleteAging and disabled folks are the best at using apps and webpages with all the tech they have lying around and those fiber optic speeds are amazing in rural counties, no reason at all this will not be a HUGE success.
ReplyDeleteSabotaging the Social Security Administration is part of a game plan that most of us have already figured out. However, Elon Musk said the quiet part out loud yesterday when he called for the elimination of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If the Democrats had any talent at messaging, the headlines all over the media and internet today would be "Top Trump administration official calls for the elimination of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid."
ReplyDeleteWatch Elon say it on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj94UtMeIZw
That is exactly what is going on. They’re going to gut the agency and try to redo the software on their own like it’s a startup. The benefit system is so rule bound and complex that any attempt at a rewrite is destined to fail. People will stop getting payments and the DOGE crew will blame everyone but themselves. Musk will then swoop in and declare that it’s time to take this to the private sector. And just like that the trust fund will be shifted over to the billionaires never to be seen by the people who earned that money.
DeleteHow I want to look into the future... ⠀⠀⠀
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