Dec. 25, 2025, 8:33 a.m. CT.
There is an old saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It’s probably also true that if the only tool you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like it needs to be cut.
Many of us remember an image of Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw, celebrating the many triumphs of the Department of Government Efficiency. Yet, often the actions taken by DOGE proved to be less than triumphant and only rarely led to efficiency.
Unless you’re one of those people who knows how to use a chainsaw to carve a bear statue out of a tree trunk, the chainsaw isn’t known for its precision. In the case of DOGE, its accomplishments didn’t lead to efficiency so much as they often led to court where many of its actions were overturned.
Despite the…
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