Of course everybody wants the government being efficient. People just have very different idea of what that means in practice (what is useful vs. wasteful spending is highly subjective (in many cases))

Ideas are a cover for the execution as it's the results that matter. Whoever is against government waste?

This is a disingenuous comment, possibly involuntarily so, but it assumes that the parties involve ever had any other goal than just killing what Elon deemed useless. One of the darkest pages in American history.

> the cuts still needed to be made.

Which ones? Because there are a lot of instances where genuinely good, productive and useful programs were cut.

DOGE wasn't even looking in the same world as where the majority of actual fraud and waste takes place.

given that DOGE took a chainsaw to legitimate medical research that was working on saving lives and conditions for people who have no other options ... no, they were beyond heavy handed. They were out for blood using DEI as a smokescreen. Stop. This crap isn't welcome in the industry.

Budget cuts that don't touch military spending aren't real budget cuts.

Zohran is the darling of the DNC (DSA I guess now) and therefore the darling of HN. You're unlikely to find any seriously critical views here.