Last week, Elon Musk, our shadow president, revealed the development of a new task force entitled, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It would be easier to take this task force seriously if it didn’t sound like an anti-muggle department in Harry Potter’s Ministry of Magic with Delores Umbridge at the helm. But I’m going to take it seriously for the sake of this article, because it’s a real thing that could have a large impact on all of our lives.
As a parent of a young adult with various disabilities and a disability advocate, I was forced to become an expert on the workings of Washington. Disability services keep folks like my autistic son off the streets. Nobody wants those services eliminated. However, if Musk can streamline the cumbersome system, I think every autism mom in the country would worship him.
DOGE could either hurt or help my life, depending on how it’s done.
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You have much more faith in this project than I do. I hope he picks you. I’ll be interested in seeing what happens.
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Don’t do it!
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Ha. I’m not. Just joking around.
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I’m also curious what makes you think this proposed project will work better than Simpson-Bowles or the Clinton-era reinventing Government projects? I still have my “golden hammer” award from the latter project, for helping “reinvent” government travel.
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I don’t think it will work. Mostly, I was talking about the current mess — and it is a mess — and thinking about how it could be better. It’s hard to make big changes for a ton of reasons. Lots of pol sci research on that. Didn’t have time to get into that. I was just describing a really bad system that should be reformed. Will it happen? Probably not
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