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Can You Live Your Dream Now Instead Of Later?
In other words, I’m writing a book!
Hi, hello again! In case you haven’t heard, I got DOGE’d a couple of months ago. Along with .
“Being DOGE’d” is apparently the phrase we all use now to describe the painful process of suddenly losing one’s job because Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has deemed it was an unnecessary or stupid one.
Though everyone seems to agree that the government can and should be more efficient, DOGE does not seem to be after government efficiency. The New York Times reporter and podcaster Ezra Klein noted that “Department of Government Control” would be a better term for this new entity, given what it is actually doing, and I agree.
Elon Musk, Peter Navarro, Marco Rubio, and some other powerful men decided that my job, my team’s jobs, our project, and the entire government agency I served as a contractor (USAID) weren’t needed. So they slashed it. According to most analyses I have seen, this will not lead to any meaningful savings for US taxpayers. But it did lead to a lot of confusion, chaos, job loss, and the sudden cutting off of lifesaving foreign assistance for millions of people worldwide.
I spent the last ten years working in foreign aid, including most recently five years…
