I look at the federal debt clock everyday and not one second has it gone down. It’d be helpful if they took these saving DOGE is doing and put it on the debt. Even a little change downward would excite people. What are they doing with these hundreds of billions in savings?
There is a nice chart in there that shows what the stolen presidency added to the debt. It may not be possible to even cut this away, which may have been the point.
DOGE isn’t actually saving much, if anything. It’s identifying programs from which future funds may be withheld. We are so far in debt I’m certain that the problem won’t be solved in my lifetime.
They are finding more than just savings. The fraud won’t reduce to debt but it will keep it from going forward. Even if we find and prosecute the fraudsters and confiscate what is left it won’t change the debt. What will help is cutting costs and lowering interest rates and growing the economy.
For $1.9 trillion, any savings we manage will reduce the *deficit*. Only after we reduce our spending by $1.9 T can we start applying savings to the debt.