OBAMA DID DOGE! IN HIS WORDS

One of the commitments that I made the American people was that we would do a better job here in Washington in rooting out wasteful spending at a time when families had to cut back, had to make some tough decisions about getting rid of things that they don’t need in order to make the investments that they do. We thought that it was entirely appropriate for our governments and our agencies to try to root out waste large and small in a systematic way. Obviously this is even more important given the deficits that we’ve inherited and that have grown as a consequence of this recession.

This makes these efforts even more imperative. Now this does mean making some tough choices. It means cutting some programs that I think are worthy but we may not be able to afford right now. We don’t need to wait for Congress in order to do something about wasteful spending that’s out there. Cutting waste, making government more efficient is something that leaders in both parties have worked on from Senator Tom Coburn, Republican to Democrat Claire McCaskill. We haven’t seen as much action out of Congress as we’d like and that’s why we launched on our own initiative the campaign Cut Waste.

Not just to cut spending but to make government work better for the American people. For example, we’ve identified thousands of government buildings that we don’t need. Some of them sat empty four years. So we’re getting rid of those properties and that’s going to save the American people billions of dollars. Roger Rhodes works at the Department of Commerce. Raise your hand, Roger. There’s Roger. He found a way to save the department almost $2 million a year on its cell phone bills. And I’m sure that there are probably some consumers out there that would like to talk to them and find out what they could save on their cell phone bills.

Celeste Steele is here. Celeste, raise your hand. Celeste works at the Department of Homeland Security and she’s helping to save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars by changing the way the department buys goods and services. I’ve also tasked Vice President Biden to work with the secretaries of all our agencies to identify some systemic areas of potential improvement. Travel, transportation, IT services, all of which we know can save us potentially billions of dollars. And in September, Joe convened the Cabinet and has really pushed them hard in finding savings across all our agencies.

So today I’m signing an executive order that builds on their good work. It directs agencies to slash spending in each of these areas, travel, printing, IT, because we believe that we can get better results for less using technology. And overall, spending in the areas covered by this executive order will shrink by 20 percent. These are important steps that can save taxpayers billions of dollars over the next several years. You’ve got to be kidding me. Did I just hear an Obama version of Doge going around his Oval Office desk and saying, raise your hand, you save, da, da, da.

First of all, that’s admirable. But did you hear millions when Doge today is getting billions almost feel like it’s bait and switch. I’m not quite alleging that, but millions when they’re finding billions. Yeah. Do you think it’s really changed that much? I mean, you have to be the judge of that. But nonetheless, here’s Obama doing the Obama version of Doge 1.0 Obama style. Now we have Doge 1.0 Trump and Musk style. And all of a sudden, it’s a problem. Why? Because they got beyond the superficial crap. That’s why. Play this for a Democrat that says, Doge is bad.

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