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2025-03-30 01:29 pm (UTC)
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Most of what I read about Musk is frankly too angry to be persuasive. This doesn't talk a lot about Musk specifically, but it is a look at past efforts at government right-sizing and the perils therein, which might be useful?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/1237991516/planet-money-doge-government-size-rego
And here's a piece specifically about IRS cuts:
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-doge-irs-cuts-will-cost-more-than-savings-trump-musk-deficit
Edited to add, again, this piece from Atlantic, although I'm not sure she'll find it persuasive (and you'll need to use a proxy to get through the paywall if you don't have an account):
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/doge-deficit-trump-elon/682227/
And here's some Social Security-specific reporting:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/24/social-security-fraud-doge-cuts-dead/
https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/trump-administration-doge-activities-risk-ssa-operations-and-security-of
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And here's a piece specifically about IRS cuts: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-doge-irs-cuts-will-cost-more-than-savings-trump-musk-deficit
Edited to add, again, this piece from Atlantic, although I'm not sure she'll find it persuasive (and you'll need to use a proxy to get through the paywall if you don't have an account): https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/doge-deficit-trump-elon/682227/
And here's some Social Security-specific reporting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/24/social-security-fraud-doge-cuts-dead/
https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/trump-administration-doge-activities-risk-ssa-operations-and-security-of