DOGE is only about finding the low hanging fruit to make government more efficient and lower waste, fraud and abuse, not balancing the budget. Trump does need to listen to their recommendations, though. It isn’t up to him to decide where to “spare no expense” or whether to raise the debt limit or not.
if DOGE sheared away the Department of Redundancy that would close half of government
Doge is something of a Dodge.
The assault on excess spending is actually a direct attack on the House of Representatives. By using prominent and extremely successful businessmen to mount the attack, the President is removed from the blame directed toward very specific individuals who passed the law appropriating the funds. The President doesn’t need a House of Representatives angry at him.
It is very easy to develop a fairly long list of programs that include what seem to be sizable waste of collected taxes. However, adding them all up still is just a drop in the bucket compared to the real, the actual big money.
The country is in unmanageable debt because of “entitlement” funds that are not only many but untouchable.
So, the President can get what ever he can by eliminating waste applauded by the public, and then, working as hard as he can to develop the lost prosperity that can decrease the debt in a normal manner