Elon Musk’s DOGE Deletes Dozens of Claims of Cost-Cutting After Investigation Reveals They Are False
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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency deleted over 30 different government contracts from its website’s “Wall of Receipts” this week after a New York Times investigation found them to still be active. The Times’s David A. Fahrenthold and Jeremy Singer-Vine reported last week on what they called “DOGE’s Zombie Contracts” – federal spending Musk’s

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency deleted over 30 different government contracts from its website’s “Wall of Receipts” this week after a New York Times investigation found them to still be active.

The Times found 44 contracts that DOGE had claimed to end, but were still active.

The 44 contracts accounted for some $220 million of federal spending Musk’s team claimed it had saved.

In late April, the Partnership for Public Service (PSP) found that from the $160 billion DOGE had claimed to save the federal government, some additional $130 billion would need to be spent for paid leave, re-hiring mistakenly fired workers, and lost productivity.

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I know it’s not cool to mock someone’s physical appearance, but every photo I see of this fucker he looks more like a potato than the last. I believe he’s also wearing a medallion in this one.

    When I was a kid, I had one of the original Mr potato head toys that used a real potato instead of a plastic body - you’d kind of pin the nose, hat, etc to the potato. If I still had that toy I could make a likeness of musk that was indistinguishable from the real thing.