DOGE walks it back.

[22lcidw]

I could save trillions of dollars a year very easily.

First, eliminate all tax expenditures except the EITC.

Second, raise the Social Security eligibility age to 70 and index it to 9 percent of the population going forward.

There. Done.

What you see from the South African Nazi is nothing more than performative assholery.

If y some magic that happened, it would not be Progs that would enact it as law.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

We knew it would be a shit show.

The shit is even deeper than we thought, though.

I believe you have just scratched the surface.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

DOGE is giving the loons hissy fits

I hope that's true.
We don't really have any tangible evidence yet. Trust ANY media reports? Not me.
The media has been screwing with American citizens for generations now.

I'm not really sure exactly how we'd go about verifying anything.
So if a news outlet SAYS DOGE is busting things up, we just believe it just because they said so?
Or is it because we WANT to believe it?
I hope we (conservatives) aren't as stupid and shallow as the Left Loons believing The View and CNN.

if there's ONE THING the swamp knows how to do......it's pulling the wool over the American people.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

It does actually seem that recently a growing list of things we initially celebrated that Team Trump was doing keep getting tamped down or walked back?

Am I the only one sensing / seeing this?
damn I wanna believe.

Trust...BUT VERIFY

 

[BluesLegend]

The right is going after everything dear to them, illegals, the alphabet group, DEI, etc

Is it mean that I enjoy watching Dems squirm and writhe in pain? I suppose it's my desire for REVENGE on Democrats the scum!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I hope that's true.
We don't really have any tangible evidence yet. Trust ANY media reports? Not me.
The media has been screwing with American citizens for generations now.

I'm not really sure exactly how we'd go about verifying anything.
So if a news outlet SAYS DOGE is busting things up, we just believe it just because they said so?
Or is it because we WANT to believe it?
I hope we (conservatives) aren't as stupid and shallow as the Left Loons believing The View and CNN.

if there's ONE THING the swamp knows how to do......it's pulling the wool over the American people.

I'll agree with that. Too much misinformation out there

 

[candycorn]

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.

There was an episode of the podcast Planet Money about DOGE.



There is a link mentioned....Essentially it shows what the government spent every day. At 4PM on every week day, the page is updated.

The Daily Treasury Statement. You can actually see what is going out the door as far as approved spending.

Yesterday, the feds spent about $39M dollars.

Since 10/1/24, we’ve racked up about 3 trillion in 5 months. Somehow firing thousands of workers hasn’t made a dent except in employee morale.

 

[Mac1958]

They had the wind at their backs over the idea of greater efficiency and eliminating waste. Then they fucked it up by moving too quickly, not following the law, and having a bunch of inexperienced people.........some of whom can't drink legally.........doing the work.

Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to take part in a sweeping overhaul of the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the subject of a heated dispute between two executives at the Arizona-based cybersecurity firm where he was an intern.

At issue was whether to allow Coristine to keep his job even though he was suspected of leaking proprietary information to a competitor.

“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”

In a recording of the call, reviewed by CNN, Marshal Webb, the CEO of Path Network, a company that offers services to protect businesses from cyberattacks, defended his decision.

He said he wanted to allow Coristine to continue with his internship, in part, because he didn’t want to make him “an enemy” or have him “running amok” with information he was suspected of taking. Webb allowed him to stay with the proviso that the young employee “not be exposed to anything that’s really sensitive.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/doge-musk-edward-coristine-invs/index.html

It's in my sig: The problem isn't the goal; the problem is the way the goal is persued.

Government certainly needs to run more efficiently, and waste, fraud and abuse must be minimized. I advocate for a regular, standardized auditing system of all departments and organizations that receive federal dollars, plus the Fed.

That's not the fucking problem.

The fucking problem is the way this is being carried out. The mind-numbed, childlike sheep of MAGA don't understand that. All they want is destruction and pain for others and "DOGE Dividend" checks for themselves.

They are thinking and acting like children. All the way to the Oval Office. I realize that's the way they USUALLY act, but now it's bringing us damage they are simply not intellectually equipped to understand.

 

[Mac1958]

I believe you have just scratched the surface.

And look at how many of them just want checks back.

This isn't about the debt, or the Constitution, or freedom, or liberty, or strength. It's about THEM.

This is about hurting those they hate, and being ruled by a right wing strongman.

All these decades, I had no idea how fucking weak these people are.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

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.”

Impact of Musk project on cost-cutting is much less than he claims – report

Associated Press analyzed canceled government contracts and found that 40% will produce no savings

www.theguardian.com

40% of axed contracts saved no money. Its all a circus for the sort of paople whose lips move when they read a corn flakes box. Basically the magas who have posted on this thread.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

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.

DOPE - Department Of Personal Enrichment.

 

[Mac1958]

I believe you have just scratched the surface.

We have handed loaded pistols to toddlers.

I'm not sure what to do now.

 

[Mac1958]

DOPE - Department Of Personal Enrichment.

This has been the best investment of time that Musk has ever made.

And the toddlers think he's doing this for THEM.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

This has been the best investment of time that Musk has ever made.

And the toddlers think he's doing this for THEM.

He is quids in. Seriously. Trump has set the price for the Presidency now and this will be a constant problem for the US.

 

[berg80]

21 U.S. DOGE Service staffers resign over a refusal to 'jeopardize Americans' sensitive data,' letter says

Twenty-one civil service employees resigned en masse from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, according to a letter posted online and shared with media outlets Tuesday. The letter said they refused to use their technical expertise to "compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

"We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations," wrote the staffers, who joined when the agency was known as the United States Digital Service (USDS). "However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments at the United States DOGE Service."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...e-compromise-core-government-syste-rcna193622

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

This has been the best investment of time that Musk has ever made.

And the toddlers think he's doing this for THEM.

We are living in a society where both tribes get their information from separate social media ecosystems. 'AI' was created because facts, real research and effort is too hard to deal with. Verify and trust are old hat. America voted to regress to being complete morons for an orange bag O' shit governing by EO. Those that pay attention knew this would happen.

 

[BULLDOG]

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

So they are that incompetent?

 

[Modern Messiah]

So they are that incompetent?

No.
You leftists are so full of mindless hate and vitriol towards anything President Trump does that it renders your theories and conclusions obsolete at this point.
Basically you leftists have cried wolf so many times your gaslighting means nothing to thinking people.
You people did this to yourselves.
Hopefully you leftists have learned something from all this mindless hate, but I doubt it.

 

[BULLDOG]

No.
You leftists are so full of mindless hate and vitriol towards anything President Trump does that it renders your theories and conclusions obsolete at this point.
Basically you leftists have cried wolf so many times your gaslighting means nothing to thinking people.
You people did this to yourselves.
Hopefully you leftists have learned something from all this mindless hate, but I doubt it.

Well make up your mind. Either they knew the numbers were false and lied about them anyway, or they didn't know they were wrong, which proves they were too incompetent to know what they were doing. It must be one or the other.You decide.

 

[Modern Messiah]

Well make up your mind. Either they knew the numbers were false and lied about them anyway, or they didn't know they were wrong, which proves they were too incompetent to know what they were doing. It must be one or the other.You decide.

You don't even know what you are talking about in the first place.
Nobody is forced to accept the premise of your baseless arguments.
Nobody has to agree to your mindless aultamatums.
Especially when they are born out of hate, and propaganda.