You would call back the Department of Government Efficiency , the federal agency that is purportedly auditing the entirety of the federal government for “ waste , ” would have a go at it to keep its receipts in decree . And yet , for some grounds , the representation has repeatedly had to pull examples of so - shout out preservation down after it was divulge that it really did n’t save taxpayer anything .
The latest representative of this delivery lure and replacement come over the weekend , when the agency precede by Elon Musk — butnot really , but like let ’s be actual , it is — changed or removed more than 40 % of the more than 1,000 contracts it claimed to have canceled over the premature week , according to the New York Times . Included in that overnight alteration was the unlimited removal of five of the seven largest contracts it claimed to have cut .
To give the DOGE crew , which include a crowd ofedgelords who have to use a fake ID to get a beer , some credit , this actually stand for an improvement over its previous record . The week prior , it had toremove all five of its largest take “ savings”after the slight fleck of inquiry revealed that the purportedly scrub contracts were being misrepresented .
Elon Musk at a cabinet meeting with Donald Trump in the White House.© White House / Flickr
The most recent example of the representation ’s revisions include a $ 1.9 billion contract bridge for IRS tech support that , while DOGE took credit for it , had actually beencanceled in November by the Biden administration . A $ 133 million contract from USAID work in Libya was also cancel the class prior and had nothing to do with DOGE . And a $ 149 million contract that was purportedly for administrative assistants at the Department of Health and Human Services but linked to a whole dissimilar contract bridge with a whole unlike companionship and a completely different amount also got tear apart from the savings tilt , per the Times .
you’re able to go ahead and add those oopsies to the existing listing of mistake , including the major blunder ofentering an $ 8 million contract as an $ 8 billion savings , a $ 655 million gash to USAID thatDOGE counted three metre for some reason , and a presuppose $ 232 million cut at the Social Security Administration thatactually only cut a $ 560,000 provision within the large contract bridge .
The hits just keep on come for the agency that is hypothesise to be keep cut of regime spending . Elon Musk did say that DOGE “ will make mistake , ” but it ’s part to finger like that ’s actually the independent characteristic of its operation rather than a bug .
According to the New York Times coverage , DOGE ’s initial claims of saving $ 16 billion last week have already shrunk to under $ 9 billion with the updates — and that ’s taking the agency at its parole that all the other contracts it cut are in fact right . Pair that withNPR ’s researchthat $ 46.5 billion of the bureau ’s first $ 55 billion of savings report had no specifically documented source , and you start to wonder just how much of the whole operation is accomplishing anything .
Meanwhile , do we have any estimation what the price of running DOGE is ? Not sure the math bestow up here .
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