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c186282 wrote:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doge-era-overhaul-gsa-touts-60b-in-savings-as-trump-shrinks-govt-footprint-results-speak-for-themselves
. . .
-a We need a DOGE attack every ten years. Write it
-a into law.
The country can't afford the musketeers.
| The Trump administration's claim that it is saving billions
| of dollars through DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts
| is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO
| analysis of public data and federal spending records.
|
| Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8
| billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in
| actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify,
| DOGE's savings over that period were closer to $1.4
| billion.
| ... <
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/trump-doge-contract-claims-savings-inflation-00498178>
| Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency said it
| made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government --
| slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of
| grants and pushing out civil servants.
|
| But the group did not do what Mr. Musk said it would:
| reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On
| DOGE's watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It
| went up.
|
| How is that possible?
|
| One big reason, according to a New York Times analysis:
| Many of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned out to
| be wrong.
| ... <
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html>
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