Summary
DOGE released an updated “wall of receipts” claiming $65 billion in savings, but its itemized total dropped from $16.6 billion to $9.6 billion.
Errors persist, including duplicate listings and inflated figures. Some contracts were counted multiple times, while others misreported savings.
Critics argue DOGE lacks documentation for most claimed cuts. The discrepancies raise transparency concerns as job losses mount from canceled contracts.
DOGE’s figures remain under scrutiny, with media and experts questioning its accounting practices.
I’d like to see a Wall of Waste now, please. Something that shows all the increase expenditures due to Musk’s idiotic thrashing around. It should include things like expenses from trying to track down and rehire people they shouldn’t have fired and effective losses from contracts that they cancelled that were already paid in full which, since they were canceled, they will now never be completed by the contractor.
Really wondering when they start blatantly wasting money renegotiating those already paid in full contracts that were cancelled to give out more money to people who’ve donated to them for jobs they were already paid to do.
My wage would have gone to no less than 10k and hour to return to the critical job they fired me from on top of the severance I was owed. It would be expensive to get me back, and very public.
The irony of wanting to be “bean counters” to trim corruption and waste in our government, and then have nobody on staff that can audit/track/compute anything. And I know their real goal is just to hamstring the government so nobody is left to prevent them taking everything, and/or selling it off to someone like Putin or Netanyahu. It is just the weirdest coup I think the world has ever seen.
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The list also needs to include and track the amount of money spent on lawsuits from fired employees and contractors/departments/states whose contracts were cancelled.
This is finances 101 from Wall Street. Show short term cost reduction which makes the shareholders giddy despite the reductions causing long term and secondary losses. And just like the institutional shareholders, the orange and nazi buffoons and their lackeys are in cahoots lining their pockets through self interest dealings while the public will be covering the eventual losses through their taxes.
Excellent point.