This feels like the crux of the whole argument to me. DOGE didn’t “advise” at all. We were bombarded with news about what DOGE was doing not recommending. They had a (lying) wall of receipts, not a wall of kindly worded letters.

Why? Does he want to buy diesel from them?

“What are you in for?”

“Human decency and compassion”

“Yeah, that’ll do it”

It’s always easy to ask someone else to pull the trigger

When they win

It’s the only thing that makes sense.