GAO Report Debunks DOGE's Claimed $215 Billion in Savings
Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money
A new Government Accountability Office report finds that DOGE's much-touted federal savings were vastly overstated. The GAO examined $110 billion of the claimed savings from contracts, grants, and leases and found only a fraction were real, undercutting Elon Musk's promise to cut $2 trillion.
Though Musk aimed to cut $2 trillion in federal spending, even by DOGE’s own estimates it fell well short.
- gumby
Maybe they didn’t save any money but they did manage to exfiltrate huge amounts of info on citizens and residents that had been provided under the understanding that it would be held in confidence and that was siloed to event cross-correlation and privacy violations.
So at least they accomplished that even if they failed to accomplish the cover story.
- chabad360
Link to the GAO report that actually analyzes the spending: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108615
- goatlover
But closing USAID did result in lots of deaths around the world as life saving aid was just cutoff with no warning. Was done with no regard to consequences or Congressional approval.
- nxrabl
What’s notable about this article is not its literal conclusion, which is obvious to any casual observer, it’s the publisher - I haven’t been following it lately, but for decades National Review was the preeminent Limbaugh-school right-wing magazine in America, so for its editors to be taking this position so clearly feels significant. These days the Trump Right has rags like The Epoch Times, so maybe they don’t need Buckley’s soapbox anymore?
- pstuart
It was never about saving money. It was about sabotaging programs they were ideologically opposed to, stealing data, and possibly messing with internal investigations into Musks "unsavory" business practices.
There already is a "DOGE", it's called the GAO.
And lastly, if anybody is actually concerned about government efficiency, they should be prepared to have it audit favored programs as well. Let's not forget that the Pentagon has never truly been audited.
One of countless cases of "trust me bro!": https://www.cnbc.com/2011/10/26/The-$40-Billion-Iraqi-Money-...