An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings, maybe even a “DOGE dividend” check in their mailboxes, when DOGE was let loose on the federal government. Now, as he prepares to step back, Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only $150 billion.
That is about 15% of the $1 trillion he pledged to save, less than 8% of the $2 trillion in savings he had originally promised and a fraction of the nearly $7 trillion the federal government spent in the 2024 fiscal year.
The errors and obfuscations underlying DOGE’s claims of savings are well documented. Less known are the costs Musk incurred by taking what Trump called a “hatchet” to government and the resulting firings, agency lockouts and building seizures that mostly wound up in court.
What? Noooo…
“savings” was never the goal. Deregulation was. If you destroy the agencies that make you protect the environment, ensure your food is safe, and that you don’t get sick, there is nothing in the way of removing controls that make capitalist billionaires do those things.
Anyone who thought doge was a good idea should not participate in politics, nor make decisions of greater import than “what flavor ice cream do you want?”
DOGE didn’t save a single cent. But it will cost us all a lot.
Turns out firing workers, but having to continue to contractually to pay them, does not save money, and… surprise, loses productivity.
Make him pay for it.
It’s wild to think that he could
It’s wild to think that he would
That’s why you make him. He’s too sociopathic to admit failure.
He deserves to be stripped of his wealth and spend the rest of how life in federal prison, but the US is a fascist dictatorship now, so he’s Himmler.
It was never about saving money. At least not the citizen’s.
The savings for his businesses: priceless.
Good thing it was never about savings then isn’t it.
This is FAKE NEWS! ELON told me they saved TRILLIONS and THATS why we can Now Afford to give HIM, ELON MUSK, BILLIONS in New Government Contracts! Also my Child died in the Factory because his School lost Funding and the Family Needed ANOTHER Source of Income because Elon FIRED me! But that’s a SMALL PRICE to PAY for all these SAVINGS and Elon Contracts!
-People who ARENT in a Cult and Care about Others!
It’s unclear to me how they even could save taxpayers anything. It’s not like when they fire a government employee, the money shows up in people’s tax returns. I suppose they could fire the entire IRS so you just don’t have to pay taxes at all, but then I guess you aren’t a “taxpayer”, and thus not worthy of consideration.
Yup and they will want to put it all on debt after they screwed the bond market instead of something a fiscal conservative would do like collect the taxes for it because there has been no actual conservatism since reagan except for possibly bush senior.
