This is not a failure of DOGE. It’s a revelation about the actual problem.
The total federal payroll— every salary, every benefit, for every civilian federal employee (excluding the military)— comes to about $336 billion a year— less than 5% of total federal spending.
In other words, you could fire every federal employee tomorrow— every bureaucrat, every regulator, every paper-pusher in Washington— and 95% of the spending would continue as if nothing happened.
Full text:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-firing-9-federal-workforce-didnt-move-needle
