8-panel color Doonesbury comic from March 2025. Mark is at his desk at the radio station (microphone visible in the lower left corner). He's talking with Al Gore on the phone, about government reform (reference to DOGE). Gore is reminding him that as VP, "in just seven years we shrunk the federal workforce by 426,000, consolidated 800 agencies and eliminated 640,000 pages of rules". Mark asks why he didn't know this, and Gore says that it was "carefully planned and responsibly executed" so that it "never disrupted essential public services". Compared with now -- the last panel shows Elon Musk, represented by a large X icon with sunglasses, and a group of brown-uniformed Minions wrecking havoc.
There are ways to streamline and upgrade government departments, but #DOGE doesn't know how. #Doonesbury #AlGore #ReinventingGovernment