Doge caught the car. Now what?: From the Politics Office

Welcome to the online version of Political officeAn evening newsletter that brings you the latest report and analysis of the NBC News Policy team from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign campaign.

In today’s edition, Jonathan Allen speaks to federal workers from the approach of Slash-And-Burn of Elon Musk to the government. In addition, Steve Kornacki searches the way the public looks at the treatment of the economy by President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his mandate.

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“ Absolute chaos ”: Doge Sows Turme in its quest for “efficiency”

By Jonathan Allen

President Donald Trump promised to make the federal government more effective – to do more with less. He even completed the billionaire Elon Musk to be the face of a new ministry for government efficiency.

But criticisms say that the approach of Musk’s chainsaw to suppress government programs, contracts and jobs has the opposite effect, feeling such confusion that he sponsored the ability of bureaucracy to serve the public and to achieve key parts of Trump’s agenda.

“This leads to paralysis, and nothing is done,” said an official of veterans who spoke subject to anonymity for fear of reprisals. The manager described the “absolute chaos” to the agency, even the names of Trump’s politicians are afraid of deceiving and provoking a reaction from the White House or the Public.

“The best employees are starting to look elsewhere,” added the manager. “I can’t insist on this too much.”

Trump and other White House officials say that the president is delighted with Musk’s work and wants him to be more aggressive. But there are signs of perspective in the political ranks of the administration, where the secretaries of the cabinet may lose the highest equipped civil servants to exercise critical government functions, and basic officials claim that navel exercises have become a distraction of the important work.

In short, government management can be more difficult than it seems.

Email Fallout Ultimatum: Several veterans federal workers who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity said that managers and agency employers spent hours on Monday to manage the directive by Musk e-mail-beyond the time it took to assemble chip lists.

“Probably spent at least 30 to 60 minutes to share reflections on how to approach it with other friends of federal employees of different agencies,” said one of the workers who asked that his agency is not appointed. “Probably spent 60 minutes to think about how it could be interpreted and also looked at the prohibited words to make sure I don’t include them.”

The employee referred to words – such as “diversity” – to which the administration is opposed. “I spent at least 30 minutes to write (and) I shared it with my manager by email before sending it,” she said.

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More on Doge:

• Twenty -one public service employees DogeyingSaying in a joint letter that they refused to use their technical expertise to “compromise basic government systems, endanger the sensitive data from Americans or dismantle critical public services”.
• The White House said Musk will participate During the first meeting of Trump’s office tomorrow.
• And the White House confirmed that Amy Gleason is the DOGE interim administrator. His LinkedIn profile has been registered as a principal advisor to the US Digital Service since January, the agency that has been transformed into DOGE.
• After facing a return of flowers from the voters of the town halls, several republicans of the house are looking for more information and the compassion of the DOGE effort.

What to know of the Trump presidency today

• The White House is assigning a big bruise On Trump’s right hand of his right hand, “shake his hand all day”.
• The Kremlin Contested Trump’s complaint that Russia will accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine.
• A federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order Posts the admission program for American refugees, defending itself with arguments that the order probably exceeded the authority of the president.
• Another federal judge blocked administration of the reintegration of his federal financing freezing.
• And a federal judge ordered the administration of Release frozen foreign aid funds For a third time.
• White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration will now determine what outlets will be in the White House press poolA smaller group of journalists who share information to a wider group when space is limited.

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An economic warning sign for Trump in the polls

By Steve Kornacki

A flood of new surveys last week offered an snapshot of what the Americans feel about Donald Trump’s second term. By making them on average together, 46% approve of its professional performance and 50% disapprove of. It is hardly large to any historical standard, but also largely in accordance with what he published during his first mandate (and in fact at the upper end of this beach).

But there was a notable difference: the economy.

During his first mandate, this problem was a rare light point for Trump in the polls. During his four years in power, he has an average approval of 49% for his management of the economy, with 41% disapproval, according to the NBC News survey. But in recent surveys, these figures are now reversed.