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Incompetence
DOGE Used ChatGPT to Cancel $100M in Federal Grants
DOGE staffers "in their 20s" used ChatGPT to scan humanities grants for DEI content — the AI flagged an HVAC replacement as DEI. Within 22 days, $100 million in grants were cancelled and 65% of NEH staff were terminated.
Incompetence
DOGE Mass Firings and Federal Worker Chaos
Trump empowered Elon Musk's "DOGE" to slash the federal workforce, firing ~25,000 workers in weeks — including nuclear bomb specialists and bird flu responders who had to be immediately rehired. Courts ordered mass reinstatements.
Constitutional Violations
Schedule F: Stripping Job Protections from 50,000 Federal Workers
Trump reinstated Schedule F, reclassifying 50,000 federal employees as at-will workers who can be fired for political reasons. Combined with DOGE cuts, 317,000 federal employees left government by end of 2025.