1. United States
2. Letter

Mr. President: I have written before. I was a Federal DoD civilian employee from 1979 to 2012. I spoke out as an employee of one of the Executive Branch’s agencies back then, doubtful and unhappy with the mantra of “Running Government Like a Business” that had us in rounds of reorganizations, and a career stagnation of the technical track, all of which were detrimental to many mission-minded employees. Now DOGE is on the horizon, an ill-conceived notion being pitched by Musk and Ramaswamy and the Speaker of the House, to further dismantle and incapacitate government because “it’s gotten too big.” This is nonsense of the first order. Frankly, under a Democratic President, with the resources of Departments of Justice and Defense under him, many recent threats, including those posed by the convicted felon who defeated your Vice President in this year’s election, were left for us, the voters, to fix at the ballot box, despite every single government employee in DoD and DoJ taking the very same Federal oath as I did. I cannot understand how anybody could expect or want government to do LESS than it’s doing now to keep us safe, or even intact, as a society. But then, I’m not Big Business , who stands (with Elon Musk at the top of it) to benefit greatly from a DO-nothing Government Entity… and who calls it “Government Efficiency” with true Orwellian flair. Why have you let this happen to us? Why did Merrick Garland and Jack Smith do so little, even with a convicted felon proving his inadequacy and saying the quiet part out loud daily? How and why did your response to the threat of Trump/MAGA fail so miserably? Why was it so weak? Are you also loath to stop kissing up to Big Business? Have they been in charge all along? They certainly seem to have more influence with their big money than we do with our mere votes. CITIZENS UNITED and Corporate Personhood have won, and it seems you have flown the white flag, in making us try to stop the destruction of our Federal Republic, with our mere votes, and with all this corporate money drowning us out. DOGE is a mistake … but so was giving Trump/MAGA the opportunity to win. So was not doing more with a functioning DoJ and DoD. Putin is happy. Musk is happy. Trump is happy. I am dreadfully unhappy, and desperate. What can we do now that you have done next to nothing?