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Clustering of denials throughout the government can be honed in on through analysis and targeted for further investigation. Some of this clustering would be legitimate and some of it would not.
Even in the case of intelligence/defense departments and the like, DOGE could then do a more nuanced investigation/direction to the department head with Trump's approval (to be fair they should have done this to begin with, but the perfect is the enemy of the good).
Cool, so to get Elon off your back you and your department just need to tell him you're hard at work fixing bugs and updating localization files, and then the eye of sauron will move on. This isn't SpaceX and you can't expect Elon to personally understand all aspects of the business that is government, after all.
Surely you guys have read "seeing like a state"? This is not how you make legible those who are trying to be illegible.
It is one very low hurdle of what will be many hurdles put in front of federal government employees. There will be low hanging fruit harvested out of this. Just like auditing welfare records found people over 200 years old, there will be govt employees who will be unable to 'be illegible'.
This is at best Musk not knowing what he's looking at and at worst totally made up. There's zero evidence of this and back of the envelope math demonstrates that the table Musk posted can't possibly be correct given how much money is spent on SS.
Thanks for the article. I unironically appreciate someone bringing the receipts on that and basically confirming that it was a rhetorical nothingburger.
I still predict that the email will trip up some of the indolent or otherwise provide information that will direct further investigations.
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