More than $900 million in claimed ‘savings’ were quietly removed from DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts’ this week
    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      1 day ago

      Much more likely is that it never existed. All the “savings” are programs that already paid out, or have contract penalties for early termination, were lies based on misunderstanding how the programs worked like tax rebates being counted as money already paid, etc.

      DOGE has already had to walk back savings claims multiple times when it’s pointed out publicly that they can’t do basic math or know how the systems work to base their inflated numbers on.

  • Tempus Fugit@midwest.socialEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    All of these savings already vanished when Trump increased the military budget by $108 billion. Good luck cutting enough for even that.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    33·
    2 days ago

    Gotta love the administrative efforts made at 2 am … wonder if the person doing those updates was being paid overtime … you know in the name of … efficiency.