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DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
NY Times ^ | Josh Katz

Posted on 02/26/2025 1:34:06 PM PST by joesbucks

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To: SharpRightTurn

I look forward to reading the final audit reports. Does anyone believe the times?


41 posted on 02/26/2025 2:23:53 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Assuming that (in the unlikely event) this article is actually true and accurate:

I wonder how many of those ‘Spending Cuts’ deleted are because some corrupt leftist judge somewhere proclaimed an injunction on them and there hasn’t been time to appeal the partisan judiciarchy.


42 posted on 02/26/2025 2:32:40 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: MNJohnnie

Correct. But there was no verification of the contract amount? And it had to be pointed out by the Times?


43 posted on 02/26/2025 2:33:23 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: kiryandil
"It’s 'joesbucks'".

More like joesucks.

44 posted on 02/26/2025 2:38:22 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: joesbucks

No Lil Joey that not how it works.

I know you are a Dem and think the rules are for everyone else but you cannot demand a standard of perfection from DOGE and then fail, either yourself or your sources, to be perfect.


45 posted on 02/26/2025 2:42:47 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Oh oh, you made a spelling error, since your not perfect that “damages your brand” and discredits everything else you posted for ever.

Really want this to be the standard applied TO you as well as DOGE?


46 posted on 02/26/2025 2:45:39 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: MNJohnnie

gaslight


47 posted on 02/26/2025 2:46:37 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: joesbucks

So like instead of 50 billion it was “only” 39 billion?


48 posted on 02/26/2025 2:53:22 PM PST by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

“freeper” joesbucks ALWAYS attacks effective Republicans and conservatives.

Now we know for sure that Elon, Big Balls and DOGE are being effective.


49 posted on 02/26/2025 3:06:29 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: oldbrowser

N-O-W they’re crunching the numbers?

Where were these “knowledgeable” NYT journos when the demented
Biden government was spending us into a $37 trillion dollar hole?

No probing journo questions, “Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How,”
comprehensive information “to inform the public” were being asked of Biden.


50 posted on 02/26/2025 3:32:40 PM PST by Liz
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To: joesbucks

He explained this.


51 posted on 02/26/2025 4:11:12 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: MNJohnnie

Anyone can demand perfection from a government entity or their contractor’s. And should. Isn’t that why we’re at where we’re at?


52 posted on 02/26/2025 4:13:03 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

Elon Musk has to be absolutely transparent on this one. There is no “quietly” doing anything after all the hard line talk about transparency to the people. So...what gives Elon? Is this fake news or what?


53 posted on 02/26/2025 4:14:26 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: All; joesbucks

DOGE cuts only really matter if they “stick” in any new CR’s/budgets passed by Congress. DOGE Executive Branch only cuts are “minimal” in the total FedGov spending picture. (But still welcomed!)

Not looking good Congress/budget-wise:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14/text


54 posted on 02/26/2025 4:19:48 PM PST by Drago
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To: know.your.why

It’s the New York Times.

Fake News by definition.


55 posted on 02/26/2025 4:20:21 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MrRelevant

US government spending has not slowed under Trump so far, data shows https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/content/ar-AA1zOYSD?ocid=sapphireappshare


56 posted on 02/26/2025 4:24:07 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks
Anyone can demand perfection from a government entity or their contractor’s. And should. Isn’t that why we’re at where we’re at?

Ever heard of the saying "The perfect is the enemy of the good?"

"Demanding perfection" is a fool's errand. Nobody plans for (or should expect) perfection. The best thing to do is plan for contingencies and leave time and budget for errors and unplanned encounters like bad data: erroneous entries, missing categorizations, duplicate entries, etc.

Assuming perfection and planning to it is a guarantee of failure.

Waiting for perfection before hitting the market will lose market share, because perfection never comes. You have to plan for "good enough" and then plan for "fix the errors" after release. That's classic IT.

-PJ

57 posted on 02/26/2025 4:29:11 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: MrRelevant

The msn.com article in post #56 is actually a Reuters [Rrhoiders] article.

Reuters received 9 million dollars from USAID.

Jason Lange, Andy Sullivan and Brad Heath of Reuters, who wrote this “news” article, have a dog in the fight. Just saying. :)


58 posted on 02/26/2025 4:32:59 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Political Junkie Too
You have to plan for "good enough" and then plan for "fix the errors" after release. That's classic IT.

My buddy in our IT shop could break anyone's newly-finished program within a minute and a half.

59 posted on 02/26/2025 4:34:35 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil
That guy should be signed up for unit testing.

Why wait until after release for him to get his hands on it?

-PJ

60 posted on 02/26/2025 4:39:34 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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