Doge should release details of the savings it has made
Posted on 04/26/2025 9:34:10 PM PDT by Cronos
In October, Mr Musk pledged to cut "at least $2 trillion" from the federal government budget. He subsequently halved this target and on 10 April talked about making savings of $150bn from "cutting fraud and waste" by the end of the next financial year in 2026.
...Doge's largest listed individual saving is $2.9bn.
It comes from cancelling a contract - which started in 2023 under President Biden - for a facility in Texas to house up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children.
Doge appears to have taken the "total contract value" until 2028 - the end date listed - and subtracted the amount spent so far to get the $2.9bn figure.
But the contract was reviewed annually, meaning renewing it until 2028 was not guaranteed.
A source familiar with this contract - who spoke on condition of anonymity - told BBC Verify that Doge's figure is "based on speculative, never-used figures" and that the actual spending depended on how many children were placed at the facility and the services they required.
"In truth, the government never incurred those costs and could never reach that ceiling amount. The real, documentable savings from early termination were approximately $153 million"
...The second largest saving listed by Doge comes from cancelling a contract between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and an IT company called Centennial Technologies which it claims was worth $1.9bn.
However, Centennial Technologies' CEO told the New York Times that the agreement had actually been cancelled last autumn during the Biden administration.
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Doge should release details of the savings it has made
Is this manipulated news or a half truth?? It speaks only of fraud and waste. What about the jobs that were abolished? Or won’t it kick in for another year.
you could stop reading when you see BBC.
BBC? you’re serious? :)
Sounds like you like BBC...
How much juice does DOGE have to actually cut dollar amounts ?
It seems DOGE identifies but shouldn’t congress have a say in the actual cuts ?
Pretty disgusting that these patriots should be under constant attacks and backbiting.
How much would America have saved w/o them? Americans will know how much has been saved when the job is done.
https://doge.gov/savings
Wall of receipts.
Where is the graph of how much savings have been (temporarily) thwarted by rogue Hate America judges?
Based on your BBC Source, there is not much fraud and abuse in our
Government.
Drinks is an anti American, neocon globohomo.
In other words, it's a blank check.
How much did judges decide we HAVE to pay out that were originally cuts?
Ok at the current rate that should be 2.56 trillion by end of Trump's term.
I will sleep better knowing there is very little fraud and abuse in our Government.
cronos will use any source which is against DOGE. You know what they say, consider the source!
Don't know. There is a total amount of money DODGE has attempted to cut. Then there is the amount of money courts have to date permitted DOGE to cut.
“Is this manipulated news or a half truth??”
Not at all. It is an outright lie.
They also have met opposition at every turn. Pkus its only april of 2025. Pku they havent even worked through large agencies that have signifi ant percentages of the budget.
Its obvious its a hit piece.
Did these people ever put Biden on the clock for anything? I mean the former perv in chief took over 400 vacation days.
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