Tag: DOGE
Numerosos periodistas fingen no entender la partida que se está jugando en Washington. Para ellos, Elon Musk y Donald Trump son advenedizos que sólo se apropian de lo que pueden en el Estado federal sin modificar las estructuras. Pero la realidad es diferente: el presidente Donald Trump está tratando de desmantelar el imperialismo enraizado en su país. Trump destruye las agencias, secretas o públicas, que bajo pretextos diversos financiaban legalmente a los organizadores de revoluciones de colores y de otras formas de golpes de Estado.
When I flew into Washington DC at the start of March, I didn’t expect much in the way of excitement. Yet by coincidence, my arrival to give a talk for the Elliott School of International Affairs, at the George Washington University, would coincide with the start of a DOGE purge of one of the government bureaucracies: the General Services Administration (GSA). As I went to bed in my hotel near the mall, the “DOGE boys” were moving in just across the street.
If you had “State Department” on your DOGE bingo card as the next agency teed up, mark yourself a winner. But are tough times ahead for Foggy Bottom?
News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. Unfortunately, the lesson once again is that when you challenge the empire, the empire eventually strikes back.
