Final week noticed two extra high-profile officers from the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity take their go away. Gosh, what is going to the federal government do with out wealthy industrialists play-acting at being federal workers?
The most important departure was Tyler Hassen, the oil government whom President Donald Trump put in as shadow secretary of the inside. You may bear in mind Hassen from the cold coup in April, the place the nominal secretary of the inside, Doug Burgum, basically signed full management of the company over to Hassen, the very epitome of an unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat.
As of Aug. 1, the federal government received’t have Hassen to kick round any longer. He’s stepping away from pretending to be in authorities service, presumably to spend extra time along with his cash. The New York Instances piece on Hassen’s departure mentions none of Hassen’s accomplishments whereas at Inside, probably as a result of there aren’t any.
No phrase on whether or not Burgum will get a brand new babysitter who presently works at a hedge fund or one thing, however for the second, the previous North Dakota governor put his large boy pants on to go tour Alcatraz with Legal professional Common Pam Bondi. Nothing says “managing America’s precious public lands and natural resources” like reopening a jail that’s, in the meanwhile, a vacationer attraction.
Additionally out at DOGE: Antonio Gracias. Whereas on the staff, Gracias was liable for … nicely, it’s not clear. Gracias is a pal of former DOGE chief Elon Musk, and he was an investor in Tesla. Whereas in authorities, he stored busy by attacking Social Safety and yelling about supposed voter fraud, however past that, who is aware of what he did. Gracias had a reasonably candy deal, although, as he was in a position to preserve his day job operating a non-public fairness agency the place he managed $2 billion in belongings for 9 public pension funds.
Hundreds of protesters collect for an anti-Trump rally across the Washington Monument on April 5.
Hassen and Gracias are the most recent DOGE workers to go away, however they’re two of many who departed following the ugly Trump-Musk breakup, which began in late Might. A string of DOGE officers adopted Musk out the door over the following few months. No less than eight of the core DOGE staffers are gone, together with Stephen Miller’s spouse, Katie Miller, who now apparently simply works for Elon? And at the very least seven DOGE engineers, a lot of whom had unprecedented entry to non-public authorities knowledge, are additionally out the door, with extra on the way in which, in response to Politico.
To be honest, the taxpayers are fortunate sufficient to nonetheless be paying for Edward “Big Balls” Coristine and different DOGE kidlets who now have common authorities jobs the place all of them make nicely over $100,000, regardless of nonetheless having no related expertise.
These departures spotlight how ridiculous it was for the administration to fake that cash managers and tech titans would someway step in and run the federal government whereas additionally retaining their day jobs as masters of the universe, as a result of how arduous can operating the federal government be?
Seems, so much tougher than Musk and his ilk realized. Now all of them get to return to their extremely profitable positions, and all of us undergo the implications of their haphazard, ill-informed cuts to authorities providers. Candy deal for them, at the very least.
