One of the DOGE guys themselves famously got fired for admitting openly that there wasn’t nearly as much “waste, fraud, and abuse” in government than they thought! This is the kind of vague, insubstantial stuff said by politicos who don’t actually know much about how government functions.
That doesn't address my question.
You question was what was false. I said what was false: the claim that the government is rife with waste, fraud, and abuse.
That's not in the screen shots above!
It absolutely is! Did you actually read them? What on earth is “this inefficiency, this sludge” referring to if not to the claim that government is rife with waste, fraud, and abuse? What on earth else could it mean?
... inefficiency?
You’re quibbling about the difference between “inefficient” and “wasteful” now? The government is not, by really reasonable metrics, inefficient. And even if you disagree with that, it’s the premise of a discussion which makes no attempt to grapple with it.
- and it’s strategically just stunningly myopic for anyone to expect that DOGE would target the waste that DOES exist in government. We knew what they were aiming at in January - they weren’t secret about it! Anyone listening should have known they did not care about fraud.