Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign and his voters believed him. If democracy worked, he would be held accountable for this enormous bait-and-switch.
Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign, is just a performance appreciated by his voters, as many of his voters believed “be a racist but don’t say it”.
The same reason that one of the DOGE youth got fired, not because he is a racist, but because his racism remark got caught.
Part of the difficulty of arguing about this is that the effectiveness is very clearly not there. The following is from treasury.gov[1]:
21 % Social Security
15 % National Defense
14 % Health
13 % Net Interest
13 % Medicare
9 % Income Security
6 % Veterans Benefits and Services
3 % Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
2 % Natural Resources and Environment
2 % Transportation
2 % Other
To get the level of cuts they want they cannot legally do it without Congress.
> root out corruption and waste, fraud, and abuse
That is not what they are doing by most accounts.