Obama in 2011 Announces a DOGE Department and Puts Joe Biden in Charge of It’

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OBAMA: "Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions, and that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about. But what should be easy is getting rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn’t benefit anybody, waste we should be getting rid of even if we didn’t have a deficit. Sure, some of these cuts aren’t that big, but no amount of waste is acceptable. Not when it’s your money, not at a time when so many Americans are already cutting back. Just as families are living within their means, government should too. Did you know the federal government pays for a website devoted to a folk music ensemble made up of forest rangers? They called the Fiddlin' Foresters. I’ll put their music on my iPod, but I’m not paying for their website. And there are hundreds of similar sites that we should consolidate or just get rid of. By the way, you’re not only paying for websites no one needs. You’re paying for thousands of buildings all across the country no one uses. For the last decade, the government’s owned a massive and completely empty warehouse in the middle Brooklyn, for example. Now, the government hadn't been able to sell this building and others like it because of red tape, main Washington politics, that held things up for years, but we're finally cutting through all that and plan to get rid of these buildings in the months ahead.”