You can drill down by clicking on an agency grouping at the bottom of the page. There's also a breakdown (without the ability to drill down) of regulations vs laws by year. https://doge.gov/regulations
Whether you hate him or love him, Transparency is always good. I think every country should have a watchdog like DOGE which can sniff out waste and take suggestions from general public. I don't expect generalist bureaucrats to be right about technial aspects. Our society has gotten complex but the representative government hasn't to reflect that fact.
It existed before DOGE: it's called the Government Accountability Office, accountable to Congress and not the President, and you can report "waste, fraud, and abuse" here:
Transparency is indeed always good! Which is why this completely intransparent and obviously partisan "audit", which flaunts all rules of actual auditing, is bad.
But it's experts in their fields who are supposed to propose regulations, this is the way it should be. Why would I trust a politician to know about the nuances of electrical power stations for example to know how to regulate their installations ?
Yes he can, but indirectly: in the federal workforce there are more contractors than actual government employees [1], and they share similar roles and responsibilities. Those contracts can be terminated at the pleasure at the government. Rip up the contracts, and you have essentially witheld funds for programs that no longer have adequate staffing.
Elon wasn't given that authority. If he asserted it early on it was later taken away. It's been said over and over that his access is read-only and any findings are to be made fully transparent to the public.
Elon didn't give the order to do that, but it's likely convenient to Trump if people think he did (but that only works for so long). The criticism doesn't affect Elon, who isn't planning on staying in that role for long anyway. And it takes some heat off of Trump. He looks to have figured out to stay a step or two ahead of the opposition during this term and is probably going to see less resistance than what he has adapted to over the last 8 years.
The funding freezes happened before they restricted his access, so I'm sticking with my original comment.
Regardless, Elon's approval rating is climbing quickly, so we'll see how it plays out.
Personally, I'm not a fanboy of either of them, especially after Elon was proven to be a fake gamer. But then I remembered that was a petty thing to complain about now, as there's little hope of anyone else reversing inflation and national debt. Which over the last few years hit us so badly, I'd have to say it was one of the most painful national tragedies in the way it personally affected me during my lifetime, ranking up there with the Iraq War.
Wonder if my opinion had been different about this if I was personally doing OK the whole time. Likely yes, as I wasn't that bothered when it was only happening to the working class, before the money problems had hit me.
I even tried working harder than I ever had, at my last job,
and minimizing my cost of living, and it wasn't enough. Some people find it hard to stay composed because of the sustained political drama, wars, and various failures being too much to bear. Not everyone feels these problems the same way. Not everyone connects the dots.
The incumbents had plenty of opportunities to slow the national debt growth, but did not. Much of the public have similar stories to mine, are likewise not MAGA by any stretch of imagination, but have long grown tired of the petty complaining and the defenders of obvious failed policies. There's going to be little sympathy for the people who think that losing some of these foreign aid programs is what keeps them up at night, when most of us have endured a lot of personal hardships because of these poor policies.
It's time to remember that we're supposed to be on the same side. It's time to accept that there are going to be policies that you disagree with, especially when they don't affect you personally to nearly the degree that these hardships have affected us. Of course, none of these points will make much sense if you're not American to begin with.
If things had not been allowed to reach this point by both parties, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Yes, he will create restrictions over time, this is practically guaranteed.
Look at Twitter, which he claims is a bastion of free speech, but people who disagree with him or use words he doesn't like such as "cis" do seem to catch a lot of suspensions and bans.
At the end of the day he will allow what he likes and disallow what he does not.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
It implies that the bureaucratic apparatus of the state could have been a bunch of elected people, and some dastardly force has pushed these unelected jerks into positions of power over the people.
But the vast majority of federal government positions are not elected positions. Of course the people in those positions were not elected to them.
These "unelected bureaucrats" work for agencies established through the rule of law. They operate under regulations established through the rule of law. They implement the processes, policies, and procedures they have been directed to do through the rule of law.
And get this - the people who made those laws - they were elected!
Sounds like something an anarchist or syndicalist would write as just a objective matter of fact. In this case I guess "anarcho-capitalist".
As an epithet it is meant as some sort of insult. Most beurocrats are not elected. Like, judges, headmasters, DAs? In practice the head is elected or the elected body elect heads. Etc.
