They're doing no such thing, of course. They're targeting political enemies and anything that hinders their donors/puppet masters from getting richer at the expense of everyone else. The effect on spending will be minimal, and smaller than the (negative) effect on income.
Threatening law firms that have previously been on the other side of the argument from Trump's various court cases.
Black-bagging students who write articles and take part in (and maybe even, shock-horror, organise) protests (in both these case: exercise their "right" to free speech).
There are daily updates to a lot of these examples.
DOGE's "data" hasn't exactly been consistent. It's been needing a lot of on-going correction and has been attempting to take credit for a lot of things that required no active participation (contracts reaching their natural end, contracts that ended under the previous administration but paperwork remains to officially end it, and various other examples). Amongst various other failures of understanding of the underlying information.
"threatening to de-fund universities"
- you mean the multi-billion endowment private universities that charge 60 grand a year?
"Black-bagging students who write articles and take part in (and maybe even, shock-horror, organise) protests (in both these case: exercise their "right" to free speech)."
- any citizens you can point to?
RE DOGE, can you point to any inaccuracies on doge.gov? literally everything is listed out, so should be easy to point out.
RE donors/puppet masters from getting richer at the expense of everyone else.
- who are these donors and puppet masters? Elon's net worth has probably gone down. And for a guy who has created the most wealth in history arguably, doesn't need to get into government to secure a few lucrative contracts for himself. More likely that you are deranged sir.
