Useless Government Program to Be Eliminated, Just As It Was to Be in 2017

Early in March, Elon Musk received a friendly warning from an unlikely quarter: David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s first Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the prototypical government efficiency czar who engaged in a widely publicized effort to cut government waste back in the early 1980s. Stockman wrote on X: “Hey, Elon! Been there. Done that. The Swamp is far more devious and resilient than you think. Everything you are cutting will be reborn in another guise. I know! But keep at it anyway—America is sinking into a black hole of public debt and the hour is late.” Indeed. And recent news about a wasteful government program that fell victim to Musk’s DOGE is an indication that Stockman was right: the Swamp is resilient,

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