What Trump is doing is simple: By cutting the number of federal workers and selling off hundreds of federal buildings, he's creating a glut of office space that ensures he, his friends, and his family can pick up these buildings for pennies on the dollar.
The millions of acres under the control of the federal government are one of the greatest resources that Americans hold. Trump wants to destroy it.
DOGE is going to pretend to save money, Republicans are going to help turn billionaires into trillionaires, and everything you now expect from the government is going to turn into a service that costs you more and gives you less.
If you're looking for real government efficiency, look no further than the 10-person team at the IRS that discovered $5 billion owed to the nation by wealthy tax cheats. That team is gone.
While most Americans have been watching their retirement savings shrink, wealthy players have been profiting from the disastrous market under Trump.
Destroying USAID and firing the agency's inspector general appears to be a pure cover-up of Musk's illegal actions in conducting a foreign policy that included negotiating with an authoritarian dictator and betraying a U.S. ally in time of war.