Posted on 05/09/2025 4:17:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At least 44 of the government contracts canceled on the orders of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative have been resurrected by federal agencies, wiping out more than $220 million of his group’s purported savings, according to a New York Times analysis of federal spending data.
But Mr. Musk’s group continues to list 43 of those contracts as “terminations” on its website, which it calls the “Wall of Receipts.” The group even added some of them days or weeks after they had been resurrected. The result was another in a series of data errors on the website that made the group seem more successful in reducing government costs than it had been.
The White House says that this is a paperwork lag that will be remedied.
The revived contracts ranged from small-dollar agreements about software licenses to large partnerships with vendors that managed government data and records. Most of the contracts were canceled in February and March, when Mr. Musk’s group, the Department of Government Efficiency, was demanding that agencies make huge cuts in spending and staff.
Then agencies reinstated them, sometimes just days later. In one case, the Environmental Protection Agency revived a contract after just 2 ½ hours. Mr. Musk’s group still listed that one as canceled for weeks afterward, even after it had been revived and then extended — so that it will cost more now than before.
These reversals illustrated not only the struggles of Mr. Musk’s team to produce accurate data about its results, but also the drawbacks of its fast, secretive approach to cutting spending as part of a sweeping effort to slash $1 trillion from the $7 trillion federal budget in a few months.
Contractors said that, in its rush, Mr. Musk’s group had recommended killing contracts that were unlikely to...
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More NYT lies
The Times sound desperate.
Screw the Lying Sack of $h*t New York Slimes, here’s wishing ‘em a 200 ton asteroid.
They might have used a chainsaw when a pocket knife would have sufficed. Once or twice.
NO, not more NYTimes lies. Not “only” more lies, but a barely hidden “We are still the Deep State, and we are still here to defeat you. And to restart the federal funding that you unfairly took from us and our politicians.”
“And we are PROUD of resisting ANY efforts to defeat us!”
Good plot line for The Equalizer 4
Now its time to cancel the saboteurs.
“Ok. DOGE canceled the contracts, but DOGE was sabotaged.”
The department and agency heads Trump appointed should be making sure the cuts stick. Could they have already been coopted by the Deep State?
Precisely.
You cannot kill a hydra just by cutting off a few arms.
Elon - you can't just end them. You have to drive a wooden stake through their hearts - and more stakes for whomever is behind the activity.
“These reversals illustrated not only the struggles of Mr. Musk’s team to produce accurate data about its results, but also the drawbacks of its fast, secretive approach to cutting spending as part of a sweeping effort to slash $1 trillion from the $7 trillion federal budget in a few months.”
Seems like this illustrates the mendacity and arrogance of federal employees.
They have no issues linking to a NY Times article, but won’t link to ‘Wall of Receipts’:
So, Old Grey Whore, DOGE is not living up to your expectations, or something? Maybe we should just sack every current federal employee and start over with Veterans only? Would that make you happy?
Not surprising that the Deep State would resurrect the money flow.
We need to see a list of each contract they have resurrected, and a full explanation of why for each case. Maybe some contracts were actually reasonable. Maybe this is gong to take several rounds of firing miscreants in the departments.
Easy to find out WHO reinstated these contracts then A) Fire them and B) Arrest them.
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