As ugly as it’s been so far, everything happening in MAGA-world to date has just been setting the table. The extreme violence ticks off after passage of a federal budget that will make “the largest deportation operation in US history” possible. That’s not all the federal budget will do. It will also launch an extreme transfer of wealth from those with the least to the billionaire class. Medicaid will be “destroyed.” We’re told now to expect steep cuts in most basic social services, once promised to be off limits, including Social Security and Medicare. Because the goal of Musk and DOGE is not saving us money on “wasteful” programs. Research already shows that about 40 percent of Musk’s cancelled contracts have no fiscal impact (and the risks of eliminating many programs only beginning to be understood, such as infectious disease, disaster response, control of the nuclear stockpile, etc.) Lies about what has been shut down and the supposed “savings” are coming like a winter whiteout, as the Intercept highlights today. Instead, these actions are about eliminating the administrative state and its ability to resist fascism. Story: https://lnkd.in/dmrURAb9
