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Why does Rep. Aaron Bean support DOGE slash-and-burn tactics? | Letters

jacksonville.com 02 Apr 2025
DOGE slash-and-burn tactics ... So, who benefits from DOGE’s slash-and-burn tactics? Not farmers, veterans, the elderly or the working poor, and certainly not those of us who drew the short straw by waking up one day with a life-threatening illness ... Rev.
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Mallory McMorrow runs for US Senate as Michigan race gets its first big name candidate

Detroit Free Press 02 Apr 2025
... series of news clips detailing the administration's attempts to slash government ... A lot of the promises were not executed on, but that doesn't mean you just slash and burn and take a chainsaw to it.".
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An obvious DOGE target

News & Record 01 Apr 2025
Elon Musk's draconian slashing and burning of congressionally mandated federal programs is ostensibly carried out to reduce fraud and waste in the federal government ... .
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Some details about Buffalo’s next budget have been released early; how everything works out is problematic

Buffalo Rising 01 Apr 2025
The state could have its own problems latter this year whenever Congress and Trump/Musk finalize their slash-and-burn budget for 2026 ... and Trump/Musk finalize their slash-and-burn budget for 2026.
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Cumberland County search for waste and fraud nothing like DOGE. Thank goodness. | Opinion

The Fayetteville Observer 01 Apr 2025
Rep ... DOGE’s tactics of mass firings of federal workers and shutting down large swaths of agencies have accurately been compared to “slash-and-burn.” They accord with no model of good governance I have heard of ... A measured approach ... Ready, Shoot, Aim.
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We loved our Tesla cars. Elon Musk and his bizarre vison ruined it for us. | Opinion

The Columbus Dispatch 31 Mar 2025
I’ve been appalled at Elon Musk cosplaying as president and slashing and burning his way through the federal government, leaving a wake of destruction and damage without any regard for the lives of ...
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India’s chance to raise its global heft

Business Line 30 Mar 2025
The slash and burn policy of the second Trump government is creating many opportunities ... The other concerns India’s status and stature ... ....
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Is DOGE actually an agency? The answer could have major ramifications

CNN 30 Mar 2025
The laws could pose a check on what Musk can do with his government-slashing ... It’s also different from what government whistleblowers have described witnessing as their agencies get slashed and burned.
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Trump wants to 'eliminate' FEMA. Could the states fill the gap?

Alternet 30 Mar 2025
Though experts say there is merit in the idea of beefing up state and local emergency preparedness, they also caution that the Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to remaking the federal government could backfire when it comes to FEMA.
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Letters to the Editor: Make companies that offshore work pay into Social Security

The Morning Call 30 Mar 2025
Since some U.S ... Stephen Aronson ... We’re witness to this in the public sector by the current administration’s giving ill-qualified Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team a mandate to slash and burn federal agencies ... Rep ... .
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Letters to the editor for Sunday, March 30, 2025

News-Press - Fort Myers 30 Mar 2025
Letters to the editor should be 250 words or less. Include your name and city or community of residence ... Guest opinions may include a head shot of the author ... M ... Dr. Robert A ... The fact is that red states will bear the burden of his slash and burn agenda.
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Scientists Sounding Alarm As World’s Largest Tropical Lake Turns Green

IFL Science 29 Mar 2025
Agricultural run-off, sewage, and industrial wastewater have all been linked to the problem, as well as the products of slash and burn practices, biomass burning, and industry being sent up into the atmosphere and dumped down into the lake ... .
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Letters: About moral grandstanding, Elon Musk, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cuts

The Herald-Times - Bloomington 29 Mar 2025
Thoughts on 'moral grandstanding' ... It costs nothing ... Today, Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, heads a so-called Department of Government Efficiency (which is more like a department of slash-and-burn), a department Congress never authorized ...
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The Failures of Occupy Prefigured the Successes of Trump

Dissident Voice 29 Mar 2025
“The economy is great! You can go home to watch TV now. The 1%,” Oakland Occupy satire, November 2, 2011 ... Occupy swept the nation ... This is a positive indication of mass discontent with the slash and burn tactics of the present US administration ... .
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