Musk Led DOGE Costing Taxpayers far More Than Fictional Savings

Yet for some reason you trust DOGE that keeps needing to post correction for their lies?

 

So odd that no one can find waste anywhere.

 

Awesome. Can’t wait for my check to arrive

 

You’ll be left waiting, lol. Those checks are never happening.

 

You seriously think this is about fraud and waste? Does maga remove all critical thinking skills? Eliminates reading conprehension?

 

Pennies compared to the data stolen. Taxes, health records, patent applications, business models, competitors taxes, enemies taxes. Has it all. Elon Musk stole every bit of digital data at every agency that DOGE entered. Prove that statement wrong. There were no controls stopping it. Knowledge is power that dwarfs dollars.
Embedding Tesla or XAi into the fabric of gubmnt is gaining oligarchs level in perpetuity

 

It's their free money grift that they don't want Musk to find and stop that they hate about DOGE.

 

Grandma could be out of income for months after Trump fired staffers at Social Security Administration, including the people in charge of fixing payment glitches. I hope grandma is spry enough to catch her own insects and rodents to live on until her next check arrives. I'm glad we live in such a great country with so much respect for the elderly. Nice work, MAGA! And if grandma starves to death before she gets her next check, that's even more savings! Donald Trump--the Soylent Green President!

Social Security employee warns ‘people could be out of benefits for months’ as staffers who fix payment glitches exit

 

Donald Trump receives praise for a new invention! This might get him that Nobel Prize he's always wanted. Specifically, he is being praised for inventing a new route to fascism. Fascism traditionally was brought into power through violence or by executive decree, legislation, and court decisions. Trump is bringing about fascism through chaos: he destroys the government agencies through random changes and budget cuts, and in the maelstrom, he figures the people will have to make him dictator to straighten it all out. He seems to be counting on the people being awfully stupid and ignorant. Of course, nobody's ever lost money under-estimating the average intelligence of American citizens.

Donald Trump Has Invented Something New and Chilling

 

The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts

In late February, its website claimed to have achieved $55 billion in annual-spending reductions. However, its “wall of receipts” detailed only $16.5 billion of this total. Half of that figure came from a typo claiming $8 billion in savings from terminating an $8 million contract. As The New York Times hasreported, that was far from the only accounting error. Once such mistakes as false contract cancellations, triple counts of the same reform, and the inclusion of contracts that expired decades ago were fixed, verified budget savings stood at just$2 billion.

The DOGE website now claims $165 billion in savings. However, it still details only a fraction of the supposed cuts, and earlier accounting errors have given way to new ones. A common sleight of hand is canceling a “blanket purchase agreement”—in which the recipient had been given the equivalent of a credit limit to incur necessary costs on a project—and then claiming savings of the full credit limit rather than the (in many cases substantially lower) amount that was actually spent. Even assuming that the website’s stated savings have become twice as accurate as they were in February, annual savings would reach perhaps $15 billion, or 0.2 percent of federal spending.

The bad news is that the project seems quite likely to expand long-term budget deficits. Slashing IRS enforcement will embolden tax evasion and reduce revenues by hundreds of billions of dollarsover the decade. Laying off Department of Education employees who ensure collection of student-loan repayments will increase the deficit. Illegally terminated federal employees are already being reinstated with full back pay, leaving the government with little to show for its trouble besides mounting legal fees.