Doge has wasted billions while sparing only a fraction of what she claims: reports

The Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government of the Trump Administration has been a project widely defined by constantly evolving expectations. At the start of Doge’s trip, his chief operator, Elon Musk, said, in a stroke of wild optimism, that he hoped to reduce “at least” 2 billions of dollars in the federal budget. Shortly after the elections, Musk reduced his ambitions to $ 1 billion. Throughout the first months of Trump’s second term, Doge pretended to save billions of Americans, but the analyzes have shown several times that the organization wildly swept its savings and often made rudimentary mathematical errors. In May, the billionaire said that Doge had saved 160 billion dollars to the Americans, but admitted that his body was “not as effective” as it hoped. At the time, the New York Times reported that Doge had publicly represented only $ 58 billion in alleged musk savings and that even these alleged economies had been “considerably swollen, including errors and assumptions about the future”.

Now another effort to verify the facts aimed at the initiative of Musk has led to a great reduction in facts and figures. An analysis of politico claims that, out of some 52.8 billion dollars that Doge claims to have saved the Americans by canceling various government contracts, only a fraction seems to have been carried out. The report indicates that, among the savings, boasted on the website of the “Revenue Wall” of Doge, only “$ 32.7 billion in the claimed contract savings” could be verified. In addition to that, the media found that “the economies of Doge during this period were closer to 1.4 billion dollars”.

Politico also notes that none of these economies will reduce the federal deficit unless the congress intervenes. Instead, money returned to the respective agencies to which it had been awarded. In other words, Doge has done nothing. The apparent error was made thanks to a poor understanding of the schedules, affirms the report:

Doge’s savings calculations are based on defective mathematics. The group uses maximum possible expenditure under each contract as its basis – which means that all the money that an agency could spend during future fiscal years. This amount can exceed by far what the government has actually committed to paying. The counting of this “ceiling value” gives a false image of the savings for taxpayers.

“It is the equivalent of essentially withdrawing a credit card with a credit limit of $ 20,000, of canceling it and then saying:” I have just saved $ 20,000 “,” said Jessica Tillipman, associate Doyene for government purchasing law at the George Washington University Law School. “Everything that has been said publicly on the savings (DOGE) does not make sense.”

Another recent report is also relevant which claims that Dog has spent much more money to try to reduce the government than to save by destroying public programs. Written by the Senate permanent subcommittee on surveys, the analysis says that Doge exploded on some $ 21.7 billion in taxpayers while trying to reduce the federal workforce. Between January and July, DOGE spent around $ 14.8 billion thanks to its delayed resignation program, which paid public employees “not to work up to eight months”. DOGE would have spent an additional $ 6 billion for “100,000 employees who have been involuntarily separated from the federal service or who remain in the period of prolonged administrative holidays pending separation, many of which have been paid not to do their job for weeks or months.” The organization spent hundreds of millions of others over various ineffective and useless policies.

The senatorial committee notes that the amount that DOGE has spent in this way is more than double the amount that DOGE has definitively extracted from the government ($ 9 billion, via the NPR, PBS and AID Foreign) cuts through the termination package voted by the Republicans this summer. Meanwhile, while Doge continued with his doubtful buffoonery, his own staff continued to suck the government’s taxpayers. In March, NPR indicated that $ 40 million in public funds had been distributed for DOGE activities, but a large part of the cost of the initiative is not clear. The same month, Wired noted that some Doge staff were salaries with the six -digit government for their work as slash and burning. Money often seemed to come from the very agencies that Doge was massaging, noted the point of sale.

If the two recent studies are exact, they reveal the very ironic contours of Doge and its activities – an organization that claims to eliminate waste government and fraud, but whose operations seem unnecessary and whose public declarations are frequently, according to numerous journalistic, fraudulent analyzes.

At this point, we do not know what digests does. The organization is not dead, but with the loss of its supreme leader (musk), its mandate has become more and more clear and its activities are now wrapped in mystery. Like a computer virus, the organization continues to make its way through the guts of the bureaucracy, serving nebulous projects, such as the creation of a national database of citizenship which alarmed privacy activists.

Some former members of DOGE continue to be useful for administration in other ways. Last week, the former Doge-Ling, 19, known as “Big Balls” (real name Edward Coristine) managed to be hit in the face by a group of minors while walking in the national capital, according to Washington DC police. The spectacle of the bloody facial of Coristine has been widely shared on Musk’s X platform and other social media sites, and the incident has since served as a justification for the federalization of the local police from Trump to DC, while Doge was a current governance work number and the current regime, it continues to be used for certain functions (I only serve relations with the success of the current publication Relations, I do not serve that relations with the public (I do not serve that relations with the public, I do not serve that relations with the public, I do not serve that relations with the public, I do not serve the writing of the success of the current regime: Namely. Department of propaganda).