2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions
Source: ABC News
March 14, 2026, 5:04 AM
One year after Elon Musk began an unprecedented attempt to eliminate swaths of the federal government, newly released deposition videos are providing a never-before-seen look at two of the people responsible for the largest mass termination of federal grants in the National Endowment for the Humanities' history.
According to the depositions and other materials released as part of a civil lawsuit related to the funding cuts, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on ChatGPT to identify more than $100 million in grants related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that were later cancelled.
When President Donald Trump returned to office last January, he empowered Musk to slash federal spending as a lead adviser in the newly created DOGE. Within days, all agencies were directed to put DEI staff on leave and related programs were shuttered. In lengthy depositions, two DOGE employees -- Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh -- defended the effort to cut "useless agencies" as part of DOGE's attempt to reduce the federal deficit.
"You don't regret that people might have lost important income ... to support their lives?" an attorney asked Cavanaugh about the grant cancellations. "No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero," Cavanaugh said. "Did you reduce the federal deficit?" the attorney asked. "No, we didn't," Cavanaugh said.
Read more: https://abcnews.com/Politics/2-doge-staffers-regrets-people-losing-income-reduce/story?id=131050170
Bunch of fucking insane brainwashed zombie jackasses. They should be in prison.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,018 posts)It is a shame that so many people cannot see what is going to happen.
Which is nothing. The rich comprise both parties and the rich are the ones perpetuating this money grab in the name of politics.
Why can't we see this?
Talk about abject despair...
BumRushDaShow
(168,942 posts)I.e., the "wealthy" vs the "poor". It's human nature and how people survive is to try to carve out their own little existence and create a little bubble around themselves and their communities in order to move on in life.
OldBaldy1701E
(11,018 posts)They are doing this on purpose to keep us from realizing what needs to be done.
The concept keeps happening because we keep letting it happen. Greed is a powerful and easily manipulated emotion and the fact that the rich have repeatedly done so for so long just removes any real hope for a change that might actually be a change. Add to that the manipulation and 'tweaking' that has been done to our laws to favor those same rich people.
Oh well...
Jarqui
(10,903 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,079 posts)Deliberately so as to produce little monsters like this.
FakeNoose
(41,312 posts)I've made certain to keep these intrusive aps off my computer and phone .... They always offer free, and supposedly "helpful" services. Yeah it sounds nice and innocent, BUT once they get on your computer they are like an undercover TSR spy "phoning home" your activities so the owners can keep their eyes on you. Musk was in on this from the get-go and he used it to his advantage. And that's what made the DOGE activities so insidious.
GiqueCee
(4,024 posts)... your life that each and every one of the malicious little shitstains in DOGE was specifically chosen for their sociopathic tendencies, not in spite of them.
Everything that a Republican touches is poisoned. Even if those Republicans with the temerity to disagree with Trumpty-Dumpty have any hope of redemption in the eyes of their countrymen, they must reject, utterly and completely, everything about the Republican Terrorist Organization. Or better yet, in this age of rampant acronyms, let's call it the RTO, to keep it simple.
It shouldn't take long for that to catch on.
paleotn
(22,136 posts)nwduke
(505 posts)But its only been one year since the orange buffoon wreaked havoc on our democracy and fomented hate and division throughout our country in his attempt to destroy our democracy!
paleotn
(22,136 posts)RainCaster
(13,648 posts)Purely coincidental I'm sure...
2naSalit
(102,226 posts)jfz9580m
(17,060 posts)Lack of accountability for the wealthy and powerful coupled with draconian policing and surveillance of activists etc is the issue.
Privacy International sent me this the other day about how embattled those who are fighting for abortion rights etc are.
I cannot find the link. But it is a decent group:
https://privacyinternational.org/
OGBuzz
(256 posts)Javaman
(65,626 posts)Have no regrets.
How surprising
yellow dahlia
(5,667 posts)I am glad to see MSM media covering this.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(135,180 posts)And for all intents and purposes, these people do not know WTF they are doing.
travelingthrulife
(5,079 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,667 posts)I'm sorry my chainsaw ran out of gas.