DOGE walks it back.

[berg80]

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week​

Last week, Elon Musk’s government cost-slashing initiative, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts.

Now the organization, which is also known as the U.S. DOGE Service, has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

The last of the original top five disappeared from the site in the early hours of Tuesday, even as the group claimed in its latest update that its savings to date had increased to $65 billion. The website offered no explanation for why it removed some items or how it arrived at the higher total. Neither the U.S. DOGE Service nor the White House responded to questions Tuesday morning.

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

www.nytimes.com

DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where.​

A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were overstated and ‘woke’ cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total​

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-doge-federal-savings-claims-783b9507?st=kwMKEz&reflink=article_copyURL_share

DOGE team's "wall of receipts" shows errors in tallying billions in savings​

DOGE team's "wall of receipts" shows errors in tallying billions in savings

The initial accounting by DOGE of its estimated savings was overstated by billions of dollars, a review by CBS News found.

www.cbsnews.com

DOGE should change its name to DOGI, Dept. of Government Inefficiency.

 

[toobfreak]

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week​

Last week, Elon Musk’s government cost-slashing initiative, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts.

Now the organization, which is also known as the U.S. DOGE Service, has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

The last of the original top five disappeared from the site in the early hours of Tuesday, even as the group claimed in its latest update that its savings to date had increased to $65 billion. The website offered no explanation for why it removed some items or how it arrived at the higher total. Neither the U.S. DOGE Service nor the White House responded to questions Tuesday morning.

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

www.nytimes.com

DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where.​

A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were overstated and ‘woke’ cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total​

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-doge-federal-savings-claims-783b9507?st=kwMKEz&reflink=article_copyURL_share

DOGE should change its name to DOGI, Dept. of Government Inefficiency.

Sorry, Frenchfry, your NYT link doesn't work, it just sends me to a paywall and, aren't they paid by USAID to lie to us?
Find us a credible story.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

DOGE is giving the loons hissy fits

 

[Moonglow]

Doesn't Elon have another bastard to raise?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Doesn't Elon have another bastard to raise?

He can afford it. What a stupid response, all most like drug addled

 

[Moonglow]

He can afford it. What a stupid response, all most like drug addled

Just like the porch monkey from Africa who fucks anything that walks and leaves a path of unwed mothers.

 

[Marener]

aren't they paid by USAID to lie to us?

Delusional.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Just like the porch monkey from Africa who fucks anything that walks and leaves a path of unwed mothers.

You should stop. Seriously.

 

[Modern Messiah]

Just like the porch monkey from Africa who fucks anything that walks and leaves a path of unwed mothers.

I find your comments to be irrelevant and most importantly ignorant.

 

[berg80]

This kind of information undercuts the idea the DOGE boys know what they're doing. My question is............were these errors innocent mistakes or intentional lies to make it appear more money is being saved than it is in reality?

 

[Rambunctious]

Just like the porch monkey from Africa who fucks anything that walks and leaves a path of unwed mothers.

Holy cow dude... what is your problem?...

 

[SeaMajor7]

 

[Seymour Flops]

The lauder they cry, the more we should keep it up.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The website offered no explanation for why it removed some items or how it arrived at the higher total. Neither the U.S. DOGE Service nor the White House responded to questions Tuesday morning.

Of course.

This is ham-fisted political theater by Trump and Musk, neither of whom know what they’re doing.

More incompetence and failure from Trump; further proof Trump is unfit to be president.

 

[Modern Messiah]

This kind of information undercuts the idea the DOGE boys know what they're doing. My question is............were these errors innocent mistakes or intentional lies to make it appear more money is being saved than it is in reality?

There were no intentional lies.
You are gaslighting again.
Gaslight away

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Just like the porch monkey from Africa who fucks anything that walks and leaves a path of unwed mothers.

Bubba did that but hushed up the girls.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Of course.

This is ham-fisted political theater by Trump and Musk, neither of whom know what they’re doing.

More incompetence and failure from Trump; further proof Trump is unfit to be president.

Fallacy based on emotional rubble.

 

[berg80]

The lauder they cry, the more we should keep it up.

Keep up the lies?

• An $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The actual contract in question was worth $8 million. The mistake seemed to stem from an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database. But contracting experts said that the service should have known better: ICE’s entire budget is about $8 billion, making it implausible that one contract could be so large. The U.S. DOGE Service adjusted the figure on the site after The Times wrote about it, and said in a post on Mr. Musk’s X platform that it had “always used the correct $8M in its calculations.”

 

[berg80]

Fallacy based on emotional rubble.

Stick that fallacy..........

• Three $655 million cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. This was actually a single cut that was erroneously counted three times, as first reported by CBS News. That mistake also seemed to reflect a misunderstanding of the way government contracts work; they sometimes have “ceiling values” far in excess of what will be spent. Experts said this cancellation was unlikely to produce anything close to $655 million in savings even once. Now, the site lists a much smaller savings for these three cancellations: $18 million in total.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Keep up the lies?

• An $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The actual contract in question was worth $8 million.

• The mistake seemed to stem from an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database. But contracting experts said that the service should have known better: ICE’s entire budget is about $8 billion, making it implausible that one contract could be so large. The U.S. DOGE Service adjusted the figure on the site after The Times wrote about it, and said in a post on Mr. Musk’s X platform that it had “always used the correct $8M in its calculations.”

That’s quite a bookkeeping error by the previous administration.