Are Trump and DOGE running the fed govt like a private company? (opens in new tab)

Only if it's a private company whose management hates it and believes it serves no purpose. They are dismantling it, which is what you would do if you found yourself running a company you believed to be malignant.

Which, to be fair, is precisely what they said they would do. So if you didn't believe them, and imagined they'd do something else... well, I guess you were wrong about that.

I hope not, because Trump has been bankrupt three times, run multiple companies into the ground, and failed to beat Vanguard index funds when you look at the growth of his wealth. He's objectively terrible at running businesses.

Musk isn't much better and doesn't seem to have ever held a job for more than 6 months at a company he didn't own.

Funny how I doubt that Mitt Romney would have done this despite being on the board of Bain Capital.

I've worked at companies after a leveraged buyout and it is the corporate equivalent of the third world. I hope the oligarchs enjoy their spoils while the money their printed on still has value.