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(4,664 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 02:28 PM 12 hrs ago

Sickening.....2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions

In lengthy depositions, two DOGE employees — Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh — defended the effort to cut “useless agencies” as part of DOGE’s attempt to reduce the federal deficit. “You don’t regret that people might have lost important income … to support their lives?” an attorney asked Cavanaugh about the grant cancellations. “No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero,” Cavanaugh said. “Did you reduce the federal deficit?” the attorney asked. “No, we didn’t,” Cavanaugh said.

“Do you think it’s inappropriate in any way that someone in their 20s with no experience with grants for the federal government was making personal judgment calls about what grants to cancel?” an attorney asked. “Um, no. I don’t think it’s inappropriate,” Cavanaugh said, arguing that he did not need formal education or experience to make informed judgments.

“Did you ever find it problematic that you were, alongside Nate, short-listing for termination projects that had hits on words like Black, homosexual, LGBTQ+?” an attorney asked, prompting an objection and follow up question. “We were identifying wasteful spend in the government based on administration direction. That was the whole reason we were there, was to find savings,” Fox said, though he acknowledged the deficit was never reduced.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/2-doge-staffers-regrets-people-losing-income-reduce/story

One would think these skeevy, smarmy little rats would be afraid of the backlash of what they have done, by the people they did it to. They destroyed lives and had no actual afterthoughts of the damage at the whim of Musk and Donold. Horrible. Shameful. Karma needs to come calling.

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Sickening.....2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions (Original Post) 634-5789 12 hrs ago OP
Tech bros want to be kings Blue Full Moon 12 hrs ago #1
Wish they'd been asked, snot 12 hrs ago #2
Glad these smug jerks got put on record. Boomerproud 11 hrs ago #3

Blue Full Moon

(3,407 posts)
1. Tech bros want to be kings
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 02:34 PM
12 hrs ago

Alex Karp said the tech bros developed AI to hurt women and others who aren't republican. Promised bad jobs with low pay to workers. Denying college education so that he can be a king and we all get to be his peons.

snot

(11,747 posts)
2. Wish they'd been asked,
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 03:06 PM
12 hrs ago

"You don't think it's absurd not to have at least required the Pentagon to pass an audit?"

Boomerproud

(9,267 posts)
3. Glad these smug jerks got put on record.
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 03:18 PM
11 hrs ago

I know it's just a one-day story that will go down the memory hole (not mine-just another outrage from this administration). Have a good life you entitled nobodies-nah.

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