Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
DOGE
Posted inTAP
Laying Off Empiricists
Today on TAP: The Trump-Musk war on federal workers zeroes in on agencies that document facts that may run counter to Trump’s fantasies.
Posted inPodcasts
The Tech Oligarch Consent Machine
What happened to Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi?
Posted inPolitics
Elon Musk, General Secretary of DOGE
The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How DOGE Could Spark a Financial Crash
Playing with fragile commercial real estate is like playing with fire.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Attacks Child Care for the Most Vulnerable
It turns out that you can’t just turn the government off and then back on again.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Vought Restores CFPB Procedure That Sustains Mortgage Markets
The situation reveals that sometimes, even arsonists need the building they’re burning down to stay upright.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will Trump Continue to Defy Court Orders?
As long as nobody will stop him, why wouldn’t he?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Even Bankers Don’t Want to Delete the CFPB
Industry trade groups are alarmed that the Trump administration’s illegal order to halt work at the consumer protection agency will cause chaos in consumer markets.
Posted inPolitics
What Trump Could Learn From Hitler on NIH Funding
Even the Führer knew to support German science, and not just for war. Why is Trump trying to destroy America’s great research universities?
