Dante
"The Libido for the Ugly"
The Trump White House has long billed the DOGE endeavor as a hyper-competent initiative. Those claims now lie in tatters.
‘Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office last week, Elon Musk conceded, “Some of the things that I say will be incorrect.” As it turns out, the word “some” was doing a lot of work in that sentence.
For example, the quasi-governmental operation called the Department of Government Efficiency is starting at least to try to document some of its work. To that end, DOGE claimed this week that it has saved American taxpayers $55 billion in federal spending so far, which sounds like a considerable sum.
But as Bloomberg News reported, according to the accounting available through the DOGE website, the actual total is $16.6 billion, which is roughly a third of advertised total.
Still, $16.6 billion might strike some as a significant figure! But roughly half of that total is the result of an apparently careless mistake. The New York Times reported:
Almost half of those line-item savings could be attributed to a single $8 billion contract for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. But the DOGE list vastly overstated the actual value of that contract. A closer scrutiny of a federal database shows that a recent version of the contract was for $8 million, not $8 billion.’
As errors pile up, Musk and DOGE appear increasingly incompetent
The Trump White House has long billed the DOGE endeavor as a hyper-competent initiative. Those claims now lie in tatters.www.msnbc.com
Not only apparently but in fact incompetent.
Reckless and irresponsible, Trump and Musk have no idea what they’re doing.
Trump is unfit to be president.
No surprise here.
