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Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency task force is finally providing some numbers purporting to give examples of significant savings to the federal government from terminating wasteful spending.
And some numbers were wildly off.
According to independent congressional reporter Jamie Dupree, “The DOGE team is finally posting examples of where they have cut spending. This one claims $8 billion in savings (bottom figure) — but if you look at the fine print upper right, it’s a contract that’s instead valued at $8 million.”
The $8 million contract in question was to provide tech support for the Office of Diversity and Civil Rights.
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DOGE has faced criticism for weeks now, as it purges or suspends thousands of government workers across a sweeping range of federal agencies and departments, and has gained access to sensitive taxpayer information through payments systems at the Treasury Department, all while utilizing an unvetted team of young software engineers with a history of working for enterprises run by Musk and some of his political allies.
The task force has yet to uncover any meaningful new example of fraud, as most of the contracts and programs they have moved to eliminate were passed lawfully through a public and transparent process, and simply happen to be programs Musk doesn’t agree with.
At the same time, DOGE has caused chaos by firing, and then scrambling to try to rehire, critical government workers like nuclear security technicians, and accusations of conflicts of interest, including the firing of officials at the Food and Drug Administration who oversaw a brain implant project Musk runs.
