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7 hours agoThis is unfortunately the tip of the iceberg. Trump campaigned on the idea that the federal government was bloated and incompetent, then started firing people en masse without understanding what these people do.
It would be easy to blame Buttigeig for this outage had Trump not immediately made the condition worse.
Every time the federal government fails at doing something, DOGE is going to be blamed.
Buttigieg has been going around a lot in the press explaining why Trump’s policies are bad, including in conservative media. Trump is probably aware of this and is trying to undercut Buttigieg’s criticism.