You would think the department of government efficiency, the agency that is supposedly auditing the entryty of the federal government for “waste,” Would Know to Keep Its Receipts in Ordeer. And Yet, for some reason, the agency has reepeated Had to Pull Examples of So-Called Savings Down after it was revised that it is actually Didn’t Save Taxpayers Neything.
The latest instance of this savings bait and switch came over the weekend, when the agency LED by elon Musk – But Not reallyBut like let’s be real, it is – chalked or removed more than 40% of the more than 1,000 contracts it claimd to have canceled over the previous week, According to the new york timesIncluded in that overnight alternation was the outright removal of five of the service largest contracts it claimd to have cut.
To give the dog crew, which include a bunch of Edgelords who have to use a fake id to get a beerSome credit, this actually representing an improvement over its previous record. The week prior, it had to Remove all five of its largest claimed “Savings” after the slightest bit of research revised that supposedly canceled contracts were being misrepresented.
The most recent examples of the agency’s revisions include a $ 1.9 billion contract for IRS tech support canceled in November by the biden administrationA $ 133 Million Contract from Usaid Work in Libya was also canceled the Year Prior and Had Nothing to do with Doge. And a $ 149 million Contract that was supposedly for Administrative Assistants at the Department of Health and Human services but linked to a Completely Different Contract with a Complety Differently Different Company and a Completely Different Amount also Got Trashed From The Savings List, per the time,
You can go ahead and add there oopsies to the existing list of mistakes, including the major blunder of Entering An $ 8 Million Contract as an $ 8 Billion SavingsA $ 655 Million cut to usaid that Dog counted three times for some reasonAnd a supposed $ 232 million cut at the social security administration Actually only cut a $ 560,000 provision with the larger contrast,
The Hits Just Keep on Coming for the Agency that is supposed to be keeping track of government speeding. Elon musk did say that dog “will make mistakes,” but it’s starting to feel like that’s actually the main feature of its operation rather than a bug.
According to the new york times reporting, Doge’s Initial Claims of Saving $ 16 Billion Last Week Have Already Shrunk to Under $ 9 Billion With the updates –nd That’s Taking the Agncy at Contracts it cut are in fact correct. Pair that with NPR’s research That $ 46.5 billion of the agency’s first $ 55 billion of Savings reported Had No Specifically Docuted Source, and You Start to Wonder Just how much open of the whole operation is there.
Meanwhile, do we have any idea what the cost of running dog is? Not sure the math adds up here.