Lack of DOGE Savings

[HDGristle]

Estimated cost of the "savings" may exceed $135 billion

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...musk-cuts.html

[HDGristle]

New estimates indicate that Elon Musk's DOGE might not achieve any savings

The way Musk has gone about his efficiency initiative has incurred tremendous costs.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...ump-rcna203051

[nomad1000!]

Like I mentioned, my GSA buddy said DOGE literally cost them money by all the stupid mistakes and it cost more money to fix everything than anything saved.

[HDGristle]

Yep

[HDGristle]

Where are all the savings? Ramaswamy was smart fo bolt on this before it got stupid

DOGE’s Zombie Contracts: They Were Killed but Have Come Back to Life

The Times found that federal agencies have revived dozens of contracts that Elon Musk’s group still publicly listed as canceled, inflating what it has saved.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...-agencies.html

The DOGE website nowclaims$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.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...g-cuts/682736/

[tommy156]

I think it's obvious there aren't, nor will there be, any savings.

DOGE was just another grift. That's all these soft, pampered, soy boys know how to do. If trump or musk ever had to put in a single day's hard work, they'd have a meltdown.

[HDGristle]

[El-mo]

DOGE was just cover for Musk to steal sensitive government data.

[tommy156]

Originally Posted by El-mo

DOGE was just cover for Musk to steal sensitive government data.

Yep. And most of us knew it from the beginning. Anyone who thinks Elon Musk wants to eliminate "waste, fraud and abuse" in order to save American taxpayers money is the mark.

[Salty Again]

... Ain't "lackings in savings" anymore. ...

#### Salty

[HDGristle]

Eh, we've more than covered the shoddy accounting, bad assumptions, zombie contracts and double counting on the board.

And the cost, which is pretty damn close to the "savings" to date

[HDGristle]

New DOGE "savings" same old problems, which are shared by the conservative-leaning AEI

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has added a new batch of entries to what it calls its "Wall of Receipts," touting purported savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet many of these claimed cuts appear to be misleading, and the potential for actual savings continues to be uncertain.

According to the running tally on its website, DOGE claims it has saved American taxpayers a total of $170 billion. However, only $70.9 billion is itemized, and many of those entries continue to raise serious doubts about their accuracy.

Some have expressed skepticism, including Nat Malkus, a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. Malkus, who has been tracking DOGE's work, said his review indicates the savings is more likely to be around $80 billion.

"[They are] over estimating contracts by a factor of two," Malkus said.

Other costs and expenses associated with staffing reductions could end up costing the government even more than those purported savings.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-wa...curate-claims/

[eyecu2]

Lying cunt and far right mouthpiece KarolYING, Leave-it Alone, said that there was a YUGE announcement on a DOGE finding of nefarious coverup etc. and that the POTUS would announce it shortly. IT's likely that they stumbled on Trumps tax returns and found out he forgot to pay anything.

[HDGristle]

Grok threw DOGE under the bus. Hilarious

https://m.economictimes.com/news/int.../121481677.cms

[tommy156]

Originally Posted by HDGristle

Grok threw DOGE under the bus. Hilarious

https://m.economictimes.com/news/int.../121481677.cms