To the editor: The show put on for the news media by Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House to speak about his searching 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 in all probability doesn’t need to look past the White Home for what Musk and President Trump are searching for.
Chopping the funding for the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement, lower than 1% of the full federal authorities funds, will deprive ravenous kids of meals, withhold lifesaving medication from the very sick and withdraw help from folks combating for democracy in their very own repressive international locations.
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 endure the results to which his father is condemning hungry kids elsewhere on this planet.
Donna Sloan, Los Angeles
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To the editor: If a lady 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 best way 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 Workers 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 go away authorities service with buyout gives 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 and make a civilian federal worker’s job as depressing as attainable. Is that this an appropriate technique to reward profession civil servants amid world 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 neighborhood? Does DOGE quantify how this nation avoids lethal and dear battle day-after-day primarily based on skilled danger 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
