Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency
Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency
Many of the receipts published by Elon Musk’s DOGE aren’t receipts at all — they’re negotiated deals with vetted vendors who might do future government work.
Summary
DOGE has claimed billions in savings by canceling contracts, but many were blanket purchase agreements (BPAs), which set negotiated rates for potential future purchases rather than actual spending.
Canceling BPAs does not save money and may hinder efficiency, as agencies must redo procurement work.
DOGE’s claims face growing scrutiny, with reports showing 40% of cuts yield no savings.
Meanwhile, lawsuits question the agency’s legality, and confusion remains over its leadership, with Trump insisting Elon Musk is in charge.
Man, Elon is another level of dork. You really have to try to be so aggressively lame with all that money and power. Embarrassing.
Shocking literally no one, cancelling a credit card with a 10,000 dollar limit that has only had 2,000 spent on it isn't actually 8,000 in savings.
Well, it might shock you to learn that "genius" Musk does not know this
He's doing 5D chess whilst us common mortals can only see 3 dimensions.
Next your going to tell me that writing a check for an insane amount of money and withdrawing as much money as possible before the bank realizes is just check fraud.
You just can't comprehend their financial genius!
/s
it is if you went to maga public schools.
Wait, we still have to pay the 2,000? Ugh
It's clear they're not interested in efficiency. They're just out to cause damage and undermine the USA's public institutions. It's a mixture of hatred, greed, idiotic libertarian ideology, and a preference for Russia over the USA.
I bet Elon is a saboteur working for a foreign entity.
Saboteur yes, but for him and his billionaire buddies. Destroy public service, tell people that public service is shit and needs to be privatized, profit.
No war but class war, money doesn't know borders.
No need to look for foreign scapegoats when it's obvious that the very much local elites are fully into what's being done.
Unwittingly (or so I hope) you're repeating the traditional Fascist propaganda element of "Blame the Outside Enemy", similarly to how the MAGAs blame immigrants.
They set out to prove the incompetence of government by getting into the government and then being incompetent. Its all going swimmingly if injustice is your little horny thing.
How much longer are we going to let this continue?
Question of the hour.
Germans thought they were free. https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
Every day, things get dumber
Aren't DOGE supposed to cut everyone a $5,000 check after getting rid of Woke from the federal government? Highly doubtful they 'saved' enough money to actually do that
I heard that, but don't you dare call them stimulus checks or they might realize what they're doing.
Can't wait to donate mine to things that are fighting everything they are doing.