Big swings, big misses: DOGE struggles to back up its outsized claims

NBC News | Comcast ^ | February 19, 2025 | By Jane C. Timm (D-NBC)

[Steely Tom]

I can think of a whole bunch of claims made by NBC that it never backed up.

[FlingWingFlyer]

NBC. No Believable Credibility.

[Parley Baer]

“NBC. No Believable Credibility.”

Needs repeating. They must be controlled by the deep state.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Oh, NBC and Comcast? That's a reliable source.   /sarc

[iamgalt]

BS from the non stop rat propaganda machine, every channel all day every day. DOGE has saved a lot money and they are just getting started

[xp38]

Even if there are a few misses Fedzilla is so large they could work for the next 4 years and still find enormous savings and efficiencies.

[DiogenesLamp]

Two of the most notable claims — around Social Security fraud and $8 billion savings found in a Department of Homeland Security contract — have been debunked.

You liars don't get to "debunk" anything. We've seen how you "debunk" stuff in the past, and you are just lying about it.

From now on, when you liars say "debunked", I am going to believe it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, else you wouldn't have said it was "debunked."

[Fledermaus]

Sniff, Sniff. Yep, desperation.

[thegagline]

[MNJohnnie]

Other then scream “Debunked” every time the Democrat party are caught in a scam, I have yet to see any of this supposed “debunking” NBS claims to have happened

[power2]

You bastards! DOGE says they finds massive fraud, which should perk up the ears of any true news organization and yield their own investigation. Instead, they say “prove it!”, and try to hide it.

[Colt1851Navy]

Watch out, NBC News might start blowing up Chevy Pickups and Ford Pintos again.

[Seruzawa]

Lol. The biggest cult of chronic liars on the entire planet are triggered. ROTFL.

[cgbg]

The social security “debunking” was hilarious.

The “debunkers” claimed that a computer glitch showed social security recipients as 150 years old.

Of course they had no explanation for the social security recipients that were 149 years old and 151 years old!

[simpson96]

NBC, et al, won’t EVER stop.

Just enjoy the winning.

[nwrep]

Why are DOGE claims so easy to debunk though?

[AndyJackson]

Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor who ran the Social Security Administration under President Joe Biden. “There’s unelected people that are being given powers to go through and rummage through our personal data for reasons that nobody can quite figure out yet. It’s not for efficiency.”

One can stop reading after O'Malley, but if that isn't enough his drama queening debunks himself.

[cowboyusa]

Nbc “ News” is an opinion org, not a news organization, and should be treated as such.

[iamgalt]

I think they need to check and carefully verify any claim going forward. The MSM are not news outlets they are tools of DNC they are waiting for any mistake to pounce on.