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The Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk last week published an initial list of 1,125 contracts that it terminated in recent weeks across the federal government. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 417 in all, are expected to yield no savings.
That’s usually because the total value of the contracts has already been fully obligated, which means the government has a legal requirement to spend the funds for the goods or services it purchased and in many cases has already done so.
That’s usually because the total value of the contracts has already been fully obligated, which means the government has a legal requirement to spend the funds for the goods or services it purchased and in many cases has already done so.
“It’s like confiscating used ammunition after it’s been shot when there’s nothing left in it. It doesn’t accomplish any policy objective,” said Charles Tiefer, a retired University of Baltimore law professor and expert on government contracting law. “Their terminating so many contracts pointlessly obviously doesn’t accomplish anything for saving money.”
Highlighting that Musk’s own data, published by DOGE, says they aren’t making any savings on almost half the cuts doesn’t really seem very positive for the regime. It’s also absolutely neutral reporting.
It is absolutely not neutral because it leaves out the important half of the story, which is that the whole exercise of publishing that data is nothing but a misdirection tactic. Again, we know this from Project 2025 and various public statements that had been made previously, so there’s no excuse for the AP to be so excessively credulous that they mislead rather than inform.
The AP is parroting the Big Lie. It is absolutely biased and unacceptable!