Summary
DOGE initially claimed an $8 billion ICE contract reduction, but the actual figure was 1,000 times less at $8 million.
Despite correcting the ICE figure, DOGE did not adjust its overall $55 billion savings estimate, which lacks clear justification.
The ICE error wasn’t the only issue. CBS News found DOGE had triple-counted a $654.99 million savings on a single contract, overstating savings by as much as $1.96 billion.
Critics argue the errors remain unaddressed because “the propaganda of the numbers is important to them.”
Even at its most generous, the title of their findings keeps reading to me as “In Cost-Cutting Endeavor, DOGE, Outraged, Finds that Government is Spending Money”
I already had a coworker try to claim to me that Elon-chan found $100 billion dollars that government employees were racking up on government credit for personal expenses. I am fairly non argumentative in person but even I had to to tell him “that’s bullshit” and explain he’s fabricating excuses to get rid of people and replace them with stooges. Immediately tried to both-sides it and say it’s just replacing one corruption with another.
Lying is certainly effective on our cowardly, ignorant populace.