DOGE costing the taxpayers $135 billion

[Captain Caveman]

A 'waste reduction' initiative wasting $150 billion while degrading government service is problematic.

And trillions isn't? Are you annoyed it wasn't Biden that tried? Orange man bad??

 

[Leo123]

When your kid is exposed to lead at school and the CDC's lead poisoning team shows up to help, not sure it matters what their politics are. But, no worries, they're all fired.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

www.cbsnews.com

How does a child get exposed to lead in school? Lead based paint is not a hazard if it is not ingested. In fact, as a real property appraiser for over 20 years, we were mandated to identify any chipping or peeling paint in structures older than 1978. Upon re-inspection of the 'cured' problem, lead 'experts' would typically chip of any paint chips, put them in a hazardous materials container and paint over the affected area. The rest of the structure may indeed have lead paint but if it was not disturbed it didn't get any treatment at all.

The main reason for this is so that infants and very young children don't put paint chips in their mouths which seems unlikely in a school setting. That being said, lead water pipes would post a hazard but we stopped using those a long time ago. Coppery piping with lead solder joints don't pose lead contamination problems though.

 

[Greenbeard]

How does a child get exposed to lead in school? Lead based paint is not a hazard if it is not ingested. In fact, as a real property appraiser for over 20 years, we were mandated to identify any chipping or peeling paint in structures older than 1978. Upon re-inspection of the 'cured' problem, lead 'experts' would typically chip of any paint chips, put them in a hazardous materials container and paint over the affected area. The rest of the structure may indeed have lead paint but if it was not disturbed it didn't get any treatment at all.

The main reason for this is so that infants and very young children don't put paint chips in their mouths which seems unlikely in a school setting. That being said, lead water pipes would post a hazard but we stopped using those a long time ago. Coppery piping with lead solder joints don't pose lead contamination problems though.

Milwaukee’s Lead Crisis: Flaky Paint, Closed Schools and a C.D.C. in Retreat

Some children were exposed to lead and investigators found flaking paint inside aging schools. Two federal experts, expected to help guide the response, have lost their jobs.

www.nytimes.com

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

D'oh! Not only is DOGE not saving any money thanks to its inexplicably terrible execution, it's actually costing the taxpayers money on net. No wonder the federal government is spending more today than it was under Biden.

What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too


It's been a real clown show so far.

Excellent. That's a savings of 25 billion dollars. That's evidently 25 billion you would prefer to keep milking from taxpayers for stupid stuff or putting in corrupt foreign or domestic groups or individuals.

 

[Greenbeard]

Excellent. That's a savings of 25 billion dollars.

Alas, no.

Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent more than $200 billion more in first 100 days than last year

Despite President Trump's promise of cuts, the federal government has spent more than $200 billion more in his first 100 days than the same time period last year.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[jc456]

When your kid is exposed to lead at school and the CDC's lead poisoning team shows up to help, not sure it matters what their politics are. But, no worries, they're all fired.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

www.cbsnews.com

why is there still lead in schools? where was xiden and his bureaucrats?

 

[jc456]

Alas, no.

Despite Trump's promised cuts, U.S. spent more than $200 billion more in first 100 days than last year

Despite President Trump's promise of cuts, the federal government has spent more than $200 billion more in his first 100 days than the same time period last year.

www.cbsnews.com

cbs news who hasn't gotten one story factually correct in fking 10 years.

 

[Greenbeard]

cbs news who hasn't gotten one story factually correct in fking 10 years.

Okay, here's the Wall Street Journal noticing the same thing a month ago.

See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings

 

[Man With A Plan]

Okay, here's the Wall Street Journal noticing the same thing a month ago.

See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings

Musk has found the waste and fraud, Greenbeard but it's up to Congress to claw back that money.

 

[jc456]

Okay, here's the Wall Street Journal noticing the same thing a month ago.

See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings

Where’s the funds from?

 

[Greenbeard]

Where’s the funds from?

The Treasury.

 

[jc456]

The Treasury.

How?

 

[Clipper]

IMHO it's the Deal of the Day....They were mostly leftists that would have done much more damage to the country had they remained in .gov employ till they retired.

The entire DOGE thing was nothing but a sham cooked up by Trump, Musk & a few others. If DOGE wanted to address waste, fraud & abuse they would have investigating how billionaires & millionaires have gotten away with cheating the IRS out of hundreds of billions of dollars the past few years by cheating on their taxes, instead of attacking DEI & using federal workers as scapegoats & fucking over those who need government assistance such as veterans & victims of natural disasters.

You willfully stupid MAGA retards have once again been played by Trump, the biggest con artist in history.

 

[Orangecat]

Then it looks like we lost.

Lost your puny minds in 2016 and again in 2024, that is.

 

[Orangecat]

Musk prancing around a stage, waving a fucking chainsaw, is pretty much the symbol of this thing.

It sure did trigger a bunch of imbeciles.

 

[jc456]

The entire DOGE thing was nothing but a sham cooked up by Trump, Musk & a few others. If DOGE wanted to address waste, fraud & abuse they would have investigating how billionaires & millionaires have gotten away with cheating the IRS out of hundreds of billions of dollars the past few years by cheating on their taxes, instead of attacking DEI & using federal workers as scapegoats & fucking over those who need government assistance such as veterans & victims of natural disasters.

You willfully stupid MAGA retards have once again been played by Trump, the biggest con artist in history.

So you think none of it was real even though demofks in congress admitted it? Now you personally know more than Congress

 

[kyzr]

Musk has found the waste and fraud, Greenbeard but it's up to Congress to claw back that money.

Exactly. Congress needs to claw-back about $600b the democrats squirreled away.

Exclusive | $375B EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta gave billions to charities founded only months earlier

The EPA gave out $20 billion to environmental justice and green credit groups that had barely registered with the IRS.

nypost.com

Administrator Zeldin Terminates Biden-Harris $20B 'Gold Bar' Grants | US EPA

EPA News Release: Administrator Zeldin Terminates Biden-Harris $20B 'Gold Bar' Grants

www.epa.gov

Zeldin EPA discovers $2 billion stashed away by Biden admin for Stacey Abrams-linked climate group

Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was a fierce supporter of former President Joe Biden.

nypost.com

The $42 billion internet program that has connected 0 people

The federal BEAD program makes little sense with the rate of private markets providing internet access.

www.washingtonpolicy.org

DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency

DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency

doge.gov

 

[HikerGuy83]

D'oh! Not only is DOGE not saving any money thanks to its inexplicably terrible execution, it's actually costing the taxpayers money on net. No wonder the federal government is spending more today than it was under Biden.

What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too


It's been a real clown show so far.

The Times ??????

 

[HikerGuy83]

DOGE has already failed and Elmo is slinking away to try and save his sinking car company.

The Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that studies the federal work force, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.

This is a guess.

Leave it to you to produce this kind of crap.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Another Trump regime failure.

^^^^ Another left wing lemming who will latch his lips on the backside of anyone who can help him feel better in his echo chamber of garbage.