Please stop saying it saved money until you understand the value of what was cut. They are downsizing, and if the stuff getting cut had real value, its not a saving.
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DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
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Spending vs shutting down agencies is the responsibility of Congress, because we can hold them accountable.
Do you get it?
Lying Lying Lying.
Where is the proof?
You aren't actually saving money by doing that
Because Musk keeps telling them 8 million is 8 billion. (If you don't understand the reference, just ask your wife)
Don't we have a GAO anymore?
Cutting Medicaid risks the lives of millions of Americans.
Cutting SS risks the lives of every Republican.
https://bsky.app/profile/highlandsurfer.bsky.social/post/3lik4nxlbps2w
Gutting IRS staffing alone will likely negate every single dollar saved by cutting staffing in the entire government.
they love the idea of unstaffed national parks where there's no one to stop them tearing it up with ATVs
It’s relatively easy to cut salaries as we’ve seen. The cost to our nation of the lost services is the true measure.
Therefore every dollar not spent on a worker is "saved" because it was all spent fraudulently anyway.
It is the simple black and white thinking of the conservative mind.
I can save hundreds each month not paying my electric bill.
The US is being run like a Publicly Traded Company.
2. All DOGE actions are illegal. 3. If saving was the goal, we wouldn’t fire Inspectors General. You’d hire auditors.
It’s the grandest of thefts.
I think it’s time to rally behind @petebuttigieg.bsky.social as the lead voice of the opposition and start talking about everything we are losing from President Musk burning government to the ground
Mooners? SO MUCH MOONEY, IM MOONING OUT GUIS, WE NEED 2 SAVE MORE MOOOOOONEY.
What could go wrong?
Not all cuts save money in the long run.
How many contracts are being cut? Unknown.
These staff are located all over the country and abroad. It will affect large and small businesses.
This is a ticking time bomb.
.... Well yes, it's technically correct but maybe the goal was misaligned.
maybe more if Musk was annoying others while they did their work
https://www.investopedia.com/elon-musks-multi-billion-dollar-pay-package-8757243
he's also a narcissist, which means he likely considers any money he can "control" (rightly or wrongly) to be "his"
How has the indiscriminate pillaging and dismantling of government programs and institutions impacted the government’s ability to maintain public health, safety,and security and deliver essential services?
We know the answer; does he?
we use it to express money saving that end up being more costly because of consequences.
(side comment, I'm reminded of ex Brazilian VP Marco Maciel who used to say "the problem is that the consequences come later").
It might be because a handful of people are so greedy they hoard everything and always need more…
Can’t tell you how much I’ve saved by not buying food and eliminating the need to eat
“Cutting costs” by eliminating programs and firing employees is not “savings.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/musk-doge-checks-00204813