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designed giveaway to public employees that experts across the spectrum think is a bad idea.

DOGE will be hardpressed just to claw that money back. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have talked about cutting a swath of federal workers. According to the Congressional Budget Office, in 2022, the federal government employed 2.3 million civilians at a cost of $271 billion. So if you can cut 10% of those employees, which would be a stunning accomplishment, you might cover the 10-year cost of the Social Security Fairness Act, while still treading fiscal water.

This points to another similarity with 2013. All the drama and chaos is unlikely to fundamentally alter our dreadful fiscal trajectory.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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