“Will DOGE get the job done? I am not holding my breath.”
All it will take for DOGE to be successful is for two people who hold no official position in government, who “work” for an officially non-existent government office, to usurp the spending powers of Congress. I think there might be a problem.
“DOGE”
Limit the federal government to things unrealistic for states to do:
1. military & VA & National Guard funding
2. Social Security & federal railroad retirement
3. Medicare
4. Medicaid FDA-regulated products
5. Indian reservation stuff
6. DC and territorial stuff, with most of DC shifted to Maryland and Puerto Rico financially treated as a state
7. FDA
8. NIH
9. FAA certification & airspace management
10. DoJ
11. Homeland Security (subject to future to state spinoffs)
12. Patent Office
13. Congress
14. federal courts
15. postal service
State block grants for rest:
1. 50% of money by population
2. 50% of money by federal personal income tax paid
Grants to be reduced by listed penultimate year state spending at 50% rate (and to be credited to next year all-state block grant funding):
1. invader benefits
2. freak vote bribery schemes
3. excessive salaries, overtime & pension payouts