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.
These are some grade-A dolts running things over at the Department. It’s worth reading each instance where they lied, miscounted, misinterpreted, or all of the above. One of my faves:
A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.
Potentially a bunch of follow up logic processes need to be modified as well. Gender is probably not one of the things that would have been dynamically processed in the past.
These are some grade-A dolts running things over at the Department. It’s worth reading each instance where they lied, miscounted, misinterpreted, or all of the above. One of my faves:
A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.
He/him she/her they/them x/x? 🤔
Someone please add the option to mark my gender as “the gender previously known as Twitter” since I cant mark it as X.
twit/twat
Honestly though, why does adding a single option to a form cost half a million dollars?
Potentially a bunch of follow up logic processes need to be modified as well. Gender is probably not one of the things that would have been dynamically processed in the past.
I don’t know! Maybe we should open a department that monitors the efficiency of the governments expenditures 🤔