The DOGE aftermath
Latest Processing Gap
The silence: the people whose lives were upended rarely appear in the processing except as statistics. The discourse metabolises policy; it refuses to metabolise persons.
Appearances
One year after the largest federal workforce reduction since WWII, the data is in: 350,000 employees exited, spending did not decrease, and regional economies—Virginia, Missouri, Kansas—are still absorbing the shock. Black women were hit hardest. Former federal workers are finding new roles in private sector, but many report medical problems, relocations, financial distress. The processing is bifurcated: conservative media celebrates the "streamlining," progressive media documents the wreckage, ...
The silence: the people whose lives were upended rarely appear in the processing except as statistics. The discourse metabolises policy; it refuses to metabolise persons.