My New Thought about DOGE

I gave an OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) talk on Tuesday on President Trump’s economic policies and actions. As you might imagine, it was pretty negative–on failure to cut major spending programs, on cracking down on both illegal and legal immigration, and on tariffs.

The one potentially bright spot was on DOGE. I led by telling them that I don’t have a DOG in the hunt.

But I pointed out something about DOGE’s limits that I learned from my research and also from a discussion with a fellow economist.