Its not even that.

It is throwing away your jacket because you don't want to go out for lunch in the middle of the day. And then realizing you still need that jacket to get to and from work and having to buy a new one. And THEN buying lunch anyway because you are hungry.

A few articles have done a great job of documenting it but it boils down to the problem being the fundamental argument of WHY they are doing this. Officially their stance is to move fast, break things, and then repair what they actually needed. Except those repairs cost a LOT of time and money.

And... to add on to the brutally beaten metaphor: It also costs money to get rid ofy our old jacket because you can't just throw it in the trash. You have to drive down to a good will to drop it off. Because government employees have PTO that needs to be paid out and so forth.

But what if you make a department of Honey Bun Efficiency? There is surely a simple solution for your fiscal crisis.

And I’m sure he’s paying El Salvador, and for all these flights, and then for creating and distributing all of these propaganda videos and Kristi Noem tv commercials. Have to make a big spectacle about it. That’s not cheap.