corruption and fraud above a certain amount should be treated as seriously as murder. because fraud kills. corruption kills. when a congressman pushes a bill to, say, build a highway because they personally will make $3 million selling land for that project, we should lock them up for life.

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DOGE had a lasting effect in stripping out principled agency leadership who refused to go along with illegal and unethical actions. IRS leadership *today* is still hollowed out. Lewis gives a view from the inside about what those decisions to exit felt like. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

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The IRS is a great example of where DOGE undermined the core mission: in this case, collecting revenues. It cut 1 in 4 employees, and 1 in 3 of audit specialists. Thats creates revenue losses. It also made it harder for IRS to collect the $66 billion in annual revenues from undocumented immigrants.

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DOGErs were told they were breaking the law but that did not stop them. Kliger pushed the illegal sharing of IRS data with ICE. After his time in DOGE, he was hired by the DOD as - wait for it - Chief Data Officer. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

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Lewis details some of what we already knew about DOGE, such as the fact that they told civil servants to fire employees by lying about their performance. Many refused to go along with the lie, knowing that it would cost them their job.

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