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“The doge we got sent an email to every air traffic controller in the country during an air traffic controller shortage and suggested they quit being an air traffic controller and get something, quote, more productive to do in the private sector, only later on …”

“The doge we got fired people in charge of making sure our nuclear weapons were safe and in charge of making sure that bird flu didn't spread, and then, whoops, You know, tried to hire him back in a hurry.”

“We got citizens who just have an accent or look brown, getting picked up, sometimes getting detained without access to a lawyer for a frighteningly long amount of time, and that's citizens, let alone other people who, you know, maybe they shouldn't be here, bu…”

“They've gone through, like, every government website, right, and deleted anything that could accidentally be a reference to climate change.”

“Just in the four years I was secretary, We had about four billion passenger employments, so four billion times somebody got on an airplane, right? And zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of that four billion.”

“The doge we got was one that couldn't even count, that put information, sometimes that was wrong by three orders of magnitude on its own website, then erased its own information because they didn't believe in the transparency.”

“And actually, the biggest issue I've had is just Dealing with people who want to know how much tax money we've spent on it, not understanding the business model, which is that we put no city cash at all.”

“We grew up around the auto industry when Studebaker was making cars, and we grew to a scale, ah, about a 130,000 at our peak. Now we're down to about a hundred, but growing again for the first time in a while.”