Summary
Elon Musk’s DOGE is facing scrutiny for significant accounting errors in its reported federal savings.
DOGE initially claimed an $8 billion ICE contract reduction, but the actual figure was $8 million—1,000 times less—an error traced to a faulty government database.
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.
Just look at all the savings!
Yes numbers are just made up.
Yes everyone notices.
Laws don’t apply to the rich.
Putin, Trump and musk have screwed America over. America is done.
Yes
Worse than that, I suspect they don’t care much if people notice.
I bet the Trumpers can’t wait until they get their imaginary checks for their share of the imaginary DOGE savings.
Plot twist: the new federal budget is just a google sheet
fELON just can’t count
No, their base will pick up whatever they say and run with it.
Yes! Next question
His pic there reminds of this fun site: https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/
Elon: The SSA database doesn’t deduplicate.
DOGE: counts something three times
doge deduplicates, but doesn’t detriplicate
The problem is that idiots are eating up these numbers. I have a few low information coworkers who just hear the stories about DOGE saving all this tax money on “wasteful” programs on right wing news outlets and are convinced, full stop. Now, they parrot all the information they hear and are “glad that someone is finally doing something about government waste”. They don’t look into whether or not the numbers that Elon Musk spits out are truthful, let alone whether or not those tax dollars were actually having a positive impact.
We live in a post-truth society, and the Republicans have been abusing the people’s willingness to give authority figured the benefit of the doubt. No amount of untruth can ruin their credibility, because all it takes is a tiny kernel of truth to make it seem like it wasn’t actually a lie.
Bro it annoys me to no end that people genuinely believe that the government never does audits. Like all this DOGE bullshit was already an ongoing part of the federal bureaucracy in place to ensure funds aren’t misappropriated.
Do people think there was zero accountability for the money??!?!!
DOGE isn’t saving shit it’s a smokescreen to shift money around and enrich the unscrupulous assholes.
Probably. He’s only had access for a few weeks. There’s no way for him to know.
He’s in the right administration for it. Basically straight out of a trump playbook, if you can call narcissism a playbook.
Yes. Safe assumption to start with.
