Estimated cost of the "savings" may exceed $135 billion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...musk-cuts.html
New estimates indicate that Elon Musk's DOGE might not achieve any savingshttps://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...ump-rcna203051
The way Musk has gone about his efficiency initiative has incurred tremendous costs.
DOGE’s Zombie Contracts: They Were Killed but Have Come Back to Lifehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...-agencies.html
The Times found that federal agencies have revived dozens of contracts that Elon Musk’s group still publicly listed as canceled, inflating what it has saved.
The DOGE website nowclaims$165 billion in savings. However, it still details only a fraction of the supposed cuts, and earlier accounting errors have given way to new ones. A common sleight of hand is canceling a“blanket purchase agreement”—in which the recipient had been given the equivalent of a credit limit to incur necessary costs on a project—and then claiming savings of the full credit limit rather than the (in many cases substantially lower) amount that was actually spent. Even assuming that the website’s stated savings have become twice as accurate as they were in February, annual savings would reach perhaps $15 billion, or 0.2 percent of federal spending.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...g-cuts/682736/
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has added a new batch of entries to what it calls its "Wall of Receipts," touting purported savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet many of these claimed cuts appear to be misleading, and the potential for actual savings continues to be uncertain.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-wa...curate-claims/
According to the running tally on its website, DOGE claims it has saved American taxpayers a total of $170 billion. However, only $70.9 billion is itemized, and many of those entries continue to raise serious doubts about their accuracy.
Some have expressed skepticism, including Nat Malkus, a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. Malkus, who has been tracking DOGE's work, said his review indicates the savings is more likely to be around $80 billion.
"[They are] over estimating contracts by a factor of two," Malkus said.
Other costs and expenses associated with staffing reductions could end up costing the government even more than those purported savings.
Grok threw DOGE under the bus. Hilarious
https://m.economictimes.com/news/int.../121481677.cms Originally Posted by HDGristle