Dogey Style

DOGE claimed a savings of $8 billion on a terminated contract this week. It turns out is was actually worth just $8 million. But what are a few zeros when our new government efficiency experts also chose now to accidentally fire experts working on bird flu? These errors would be much bigger scandals if DOGE was actually about saving money or making government more efficient. As Tom Nichols explains in The Atlantic (Gift Article), it’s really about The Death of Government Expertise. “The whole enterprise is an attack against civil servants and the very notion of apolitical expertise.”