You’d think you know that the government’s Efficiency Bureau, an agency that appears to be auditing the entire federal government for “waste,” will sort out its receipts. Still, for some reason, the agency had to repeatedly draw out examples of what is called savings after it became clear that it had not actually saved taxpayers.
This latest instance of savings bait and switch took place over the weekend. The agency led by Elon Musk said that it really isn’t the case, but it changed or deleted more than 40% of the over 1,000 contracts it claims to have been cancelled the previous week. According to the New York Times. The overnight change included deletions of five of the seven biggest contracts claiming to have been reduced.
To give the crew of the dog, it Edgeroad where you need to get a beer using a fake IDsome credit, this actually represents an improvement over previous records. The previous week, it had to be done Remove the 5 biggest “savings” After a small investigation, it was revealed that the contract that appears to have been cancelled has been misrepresented.
The latest example of agency revisions included a $1.9 billion contract for IRS technical support. It was cancelled by the Biden administration in November. The $133 million contract from USAID work in Libya was also cancelled the previous year and had nothing to do with Doge. And the $149 million contract, which appears to be for administrative assistants at the Department of Health and Human Services, is linked to completely different contracts with completely different companies, and completely different amounts have also been destroyed from the list of regular amounts. In the times.
You can go ahead and add those oopsies to your list of existing mistakes. Enter a $8 million contract for $8 billion savingsUSID cuts $655 million Doge counted 3 times for some reasonand appears to be a $232 million cut at the Social Security Agency. In fact, they cut the $560,000 provision within a large contract.
The hit continues to come for agents who are supposed to track government spending. Elon Musk said Doge would “make a mistake,” but he’s beginning to feel that it’s not actually a bug, but a major feature of the operation.
According to a report by The New York Times, Doge’s initial claim that it saved $16 billion last week has already reduced it to less than $9 billion in updates. Pair it NPR research There was no specifically documented source of information that the $46.5 billion agency’s first $55 billion savings were reported.
On the other hand, are you thinking about what the cost of running Doge is? I don’t know if the maths will be summed here.
