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funny but make no mistake, the entire purpose of doge is to find funds to divert to rich people
The money is already diverted. That's what the tax cuts were in 2017.
This is just a way to upset various government agencies that might otherwise not be ok with law being upended to accomplish the goal of eliminating services our elected government has mandated.
The entire legislative branch is broken now.
I'm not American, but it seems to me, that to get to where you currently are, the legislative branch probably needed to be already busted.
This just shines a spotlight on how busted.
it's a demonstration of how democracy is broken. It all depends on everyone to play nicely. You can cheat but if you're caught you bow out gracefully. The checks and balances are all based on one part of the government pointing saying "we see what you did, you're out." But what happens when one side has no shame. What happens when they have no empathy for others?
Congress controls funding and it is explicitly not the President's role. He is now circumventing the laws to get his agenda done without the support of Congress which should trigger an impeachment. Of course Congress is either already in his pocket or is too impotent to do anything so here we are.
At it's core, yes, absolutely.
It should have checks and balances. The problem is that those checks and balances rely on people to take action. As you've stated, in this case, Congress should be the ones to stop unlawful power grabs by the President and start the impeachment process.
This shows very clearly that the people who are tasked with the duty of keeping those checks and balances in place are either unable to act (Democrats), or unwilling to act (Republicans). This sad reality means that the system is fundamentally broken to the point that it is liable to collapse. Trump/Musk/Vance are already making large swaths of the American population very unhappy with what they've been doing in the first 100 days. The only alternative to four+ years of this is basically a revolution at this point. Given how many "fans" they're making in the Whitehouse, that possibility doesn't seem impossible.
This.