[__egb__]

There have been plenty of government commissions in the past. None of them functioned anything like DOGE, not even the ones instituted by the current President during his first term.

I think this is a surprise to many…even Trump’s more ardent supporters. After all, they thought they were voting for President Trump, not Assistant (to the) President Trump.

[johnnyanmac]

Hindsight is 20/20, but what's scarier to me is the approval ratings[0]

There's still apparently 40% of the population that approves of this behavior. staggering 72% of republicans still approve of this behavior.

This did spike his approval ratings, but such an utter breach in the government really should be much closer to democrat's 10% here instead of the normally middling behavior of "bad" president's 40%. There's stll way too many people approving of this. For reference, Nixon's ratings right before resigning was 24%.

[0]: https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2025/2/dfp_trump_a...

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