The timing of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi rolling out a Japanese version of Washington’s Department of Government Efficiency could scarcely be worse: the same week the U.S. admitted the Elon Musk-helmed DOGE had been quietly shuttered after achieving virtually nothing.
Turns out, unleashing unbridled chaos in Washington actually costs you efficiency and probably, to Donald Trump’s dismay, money, too. As the New Republic put it in its obituary-style account: “DOGE’s legacy is both very stupid and very sad. It decimated the federal workforce, including Social Security personnel at local offices, and made it easier for hackers to access your data. The agency tore apart USAID, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of…
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