Summary

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) began recruiting “high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work 80+ hours per week with no pay to help slash federal spending.

Appointed by President-elect Donald Trump, the panel is tasked with recommending spending cuts, regulatory rollbacks, and agency restructuring by July 4, 2026.

Musk and Ramaswamy advocate for drastic measures, including cutting grants to nonprofits and potential mass layoffs.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    How are they making them? Just fuel reprocessing? You can make them pretty cheap as a side effect at scale of you want to. US can’t though.

    • KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 days ago

      Reprocessing of old pits.

      It’s more a matter of precision, purity, infrastructure, and staffing.

      And you can have them effective/guaranteed to work, safe/without personnel or environmental contamination, or cheap. Pick two.