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My phone has been blowing up over the past 10 hours like crazy. Nobody knows if this will affect Medicaid payments for tens of millions, student loans, grants to homeless shelters, disaster relief, veterans orgs and scores of other federal functions

Close out 2024 with the latest #FiresideStacks featuring some year-end reading recommendations from our staff. Fireside Stacks will return after the holidays—happy reading! 📚

🚨🚨Musk, Ramaswamy today gave us first "DOGE" roadmap; as I understand the key steps...: 1) Put DOGE ppl at each U.S. agency, then use "advanced technology" (AI?) to have them identify "thousands" of regulations to cut across government 2) Give Trump a list of "thousands" of regs to cut across the government, & have him approve their elimination 3) Identify "the minimum number of employees" necessary to maintain each agency's core function, which should be lower once 2 is complete. (NB: Musk oversaw ~80% reduction in X headcount) 4) Cut the federal employees - Musk/Ramaswamy call for for severance packages/ "incentives for early retirement," but we have no details 5) Cut programs where where Congress's specific spending authorization has lapsed (This category includes VA health care, NASA, antipoverty programs) 6) Approve a "temporary suspension of payments" amid "large-scale audits" (Details, specifics hugely unclear) 7) Assert POTUS authority to stop spending w/o Congressional approval by challenging 1974 budget law on impoundments All seems to be *w/o Congress* Fight whatever you need to in courts