How DOGE is making government almost comically inefficient

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Catherine Rampell

A senior aide to President Donald Trump once said the administration hoped to traumatize civil servants, an objective it has handily accomplished through arbitrary layoffs and other indignities. But government workers are not the only victims.

Taxpayer dollars are being abused, too, as the “Department of Government Efficiency” makes the federal government almost comically inefficient.

At the IRS, employees spend Mondays queued up at shared computers to submit their DOGE-mandated “five things I did last week” emails. Meanwhile, taxpayer customer service calls go unanswered.

At the Bureau of Land Management, federal surveyors are no longer permitted to buy replacement equipment. So, when a shovel breaks at a field site, they can’t just drive to the nearest town or hardware store. Instead, work stops as employees track down one of the few managers nationwide authorized to file an official procurement form and order new parts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/21/doge-government-efficiency-federal-workers/

Brilliant!!!

[underpants]

1. Can't open the link. Is this to do with frozen credit cards?

Employees sharing computers. 🙄 Tech is notoriously bad to start with at the Fed level.

[Igel]

3. Yeah, that IRS queuing is odd.

Since most of what they do will involve computers--except for maintenance workers and such.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The goal is to break the government so it has to be privatized.

Hand it over to the billionaires.