Posted on 02/26/2025 1:34:06 PM PST by joesbucks
Last week, Elon Musk’s government cost-slashing initiative, which he calls the Department of Government Efficiency, posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts.
Now the organization, which is also known as the U.S. DOGE Service, has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.
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We’ll just have to find more cuts, thanks for heads-up.
And what are these 5 “biggest cuts” that DOGE walked back?
When the list just keeps getting renewed, we’ll see how long it takes for the root weevils to figure it out.
“We’ll just have to find more cuts”
Yes, by all means keep digging and keep cutting.
I’d have to see actual verifiable proof or confirmation from DOGE before I believe any slime from the Times.
I don’t care.
It will make people support it more...
It’s not the truth that matters...it’s the headlines.
They can keep slicing and dicing and saving money...that’s what matters.
The NYT’s are admitted liars.
Keeping cutting and downsizing and don’t let the bastards get you down.
To the NY Slime and radical left, the concept of having their fake news information corrected, and admitting and fixing the mistake is unfathomable. So they are understandably shocked that DOGE has done that.
Elon said it himself in the Oval Office last week — “I won’t always be right and I should be corrected” - the left cannot wrap their minds around the idea of actually admitting something you said or believe is wrong.
From the article (claims one was counted three times):
These were the original five largest savings on its list:
An $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The actual contract in question was worth $8 million. The mistake seemed to stem from an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database. But contracting experts said that the service should have known better: ICE’s entire budget is about $8 billion, making it implausible that one contract could be so large. The U.S. DOGE Service adjusted the figure on the site after The Times wrote about it, and said in a post on Mr. Musk’s X platform that it had “always used the correct $8M in its calculations.”
Three $655 million cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. This was actually a single cut that was erroneously counted three times, as first reported by CBS News. That mistake also seemed to reflect a misunderstanding of the way government contracts work; they sometimes have “ceiling values” far in excess of what will be spent. Experts said this cancellation was unlikely to produce anything close to $655 million in savings even once. Now, the site lists a much smaller savings for these three cancellations: $18 million in total.
A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.
DOGE means nothing unless they eliminate the corruption. Good luck with that one!
Musk admitted today that DOGE is making mistakes.
But, he was quick to assert that it is transparent about those mistakes and is correcting them.
FWIW, early mistakes by DOGE, paired with quick or drastic action taken by Trump based on those mistakes, damages the brand and puts ultimate success at risk.
So it’s about time BB and his DOGE co-workers start getting better nights’ worth of of sleep, and eating better food than just Red Bull, Cheetos and Totinos Pizza Rolls.
The New York Slimes??? Really???
So DNC shill Joey boy
Did you check the minor amounts of the errors compared to the total amount of waste fraud and abuse uncovered by DODGE?
Or did you just rush to your keyboard, as usual, because your political masters at the DNC told you to go hype this non story today?
Nope that a nonsensical standard
“OH they must be perfect or else it damages their brand”
Nothing in life is perfect. Grow up you for once you pearl clutching hysterics
David A. Fahrenthold is an investigative reporter writing about nonprofit organizations. He has been a reporter for two decades.
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If they’re wasting their time finding $562K to cut then it feels like someone on the team is preventing them for looking at the big items.
Geez. Make up a lie and stick to it, will ya?
“...paired with quick or drastic action taken by Trump based on those mistakes, damages the brand and puts ultimate success at risk.”
WRONG! no damage done. They are still uncovering waste in the tune of millions. Those little bits of millions will eventually add up to a crap ton of money. I don’t care if they make mistakes then correct it. I just want to keep seeing more uncovering of the waste. It’s only been a month and look what they’ve uncovered. The brand will only get stronger.
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