To the editor: The present placed on for the information media by Elon Musk within the Oval Workplace of the White Home to speak about his looking for out fraud and waste within the U.S. authorities would have been amusing if it weren’t so deceitful and ironic. With a convicted felon for a president and a billionaire sidekick, one most likely doesn’t need to look past the White Home for what Musk and President Trump are looking for.
Reducing the funding for the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement, lower than 1% of the full federal authorities finances, will deprive ravenous youngsters of meals, withhold lifesaving medication from the very sick and withdraw help from individuals preventing for democracy in their very own repressive nations.
No marvel the world’s authoritarians welcome the Trump administration. The weak point of our democracy serves to strengthen their autocracies.
And Musk’s 4-year-old son, dropped at the Oval Workplace for this information convention, won’t ever undergo the implications to which his father is condemning hungry youngsters elsewhere on the planet.
Donna Sloan, Los Angeles
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To the editor: If a girl stood in entrance of the press to talk within the Oval Workplace sporting a baseball cap together with her 4-year-old son on her shoulders, she could be laughed out of the room and proclaimed unserious, unprofessional and incompetent.
Cheryl Kohr, Palos Verdes Peninsula
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To the editor: It was disgusting the way in which Musk used his feeble makes an attempt at humor and his younger son as a prop to obscure and soften his actions when confronted with professional questions from the White Home press corps.
What’s subsequent, White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller standing within the background holding two puppies?
Marshall Barth, Encino
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To the editor: Musk’s scheme to entice and stress honorable profession civil servants to depart authorities service with buyout affords displays poorly on the targets proclaimed by his so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, or DOGE.
The hasty and chilling buyout supply with the specter of mass layoffs within the coming months is a not-so-subtle try to make a civilian federal worker’s job as depressing as potential. Is that this an appropriate methodology to reward profession civil servants amid international turmoil and battle? What precisely are the supposed efficiencies when America’s safety and prosperity are in jeopardy?
Would America ever have succeeded in killing Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid in Pakistan with out the huge experience of the intelligence group? Does DOGE quantify how this nation avoids lethal and dear battle each day based mostly on skilled threat avoidance?
We belief profession civil servants throughout the federal authorities with our lives as a result of they make America safer and extra resilient. Purging the federal workforce of expertise and demanding thinkers dangers making this nation waver in opposing our adversaries and defending our allies.
Anthony Arnaud, Laguna Niguel
