You know the joke that ends, "The smartest man in the world just jumped with my backpack?"
That's our Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™.
And yes, DOGE Has Wasted Billions and not delivered its promised savings.
It might be wrong to call this one of Elon's failures though, he has hoovered up terabytes of persopnal data for his private use in the process, so it might be a success for him. (Chaos is job won!)
The Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has been a project largely defined by ever-diminishing expectations. At the outset of DOGE’s journey, its chief operator, Elon Musk, famously claimed, in a bout of wild optimism, that he hoped to cut “at least” $2 trillion out of the federal budget. Not long after the election, Musk reduced his ambitions to $1 trillion. Throughout the first few months of Trump’s second term, DOGE claimed to be saving Americans billions, but analyses repeatedly showed the organization was wildly inflating its savings and often making rudimentary math mistakes. In May, the billionaire claimed that DOGE had saved Americans $160 billion, but admitted that his org was “not as effective” as he’d hoped. At the time, the New York Times reported that DOGE had only publicly accounted for $58 billion of the savings Musk alleged and that even those purported savings had been “significantly inflated, by including outright errors and guesses about the future.”
Now, yet another fact-checking effort aimed at Musk’s initiative has resulted in greatly reduced facts and figures. An analysis by Politico claims that, of some $52.8 billion that DOGE purports to have saved Americans by cancelling various government contracts, only a fraction appears to have been realized. The report states that, of the savings bragged about on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” website, only “$32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings” could be verified. On top of that, the news outlet found that “DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.”
Politico further notes that none of those savings will lower the federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead, the money went back to the respective agencies to which it had been allotted. In other words, DOGE basically did nothing. The apparent blunder was achieved through a poor grasp of timetables, the report claims:
When Elon was in the White House, Donald Trump was never the stupidest person in the building.
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