I don't cutting down our forests either but the stated goal of the whole exercise is to improve the US's businesses and self reliance on local industry...

"The stated goal" is stupid as fuck, especially when it comes to our literal immediate neighbor who has been a steadfast ally for the last 100+ years.

Why would anyone, even one of his supporters, care about the stated goal? The man has decades of pursuing goals other than his stated goals. You'd have to be profoundly naive.

> Why would anyone, even one of hoods supporters, care about the stated goal?

Because regardless of the execution, this is a forcing function around a broader topic about prosperity in a nation. Tangentially it's also about potential future conflict with China (I hope not!). Both of which I think are much more interesting of a discussion than base partisan mud-slinging.

And the stated goal of DOGE was to save money...

Watch what they do, not what they say. They say a lot of things, and where they can they take all positions.

And the unstated goal is to satisfy a senile crook stuck in the 70s (maybe the 1870s)...