Add up the claimed savings on the DOGE website and (right now )you get $7.19b from contract savings, and $0.14b from real estate, for a total of $7.3b, or $21.47 per American. Trump is talking about giving a "DOGE dividend" of 20% of these savings. Enjoy your $4.29. - ThreadSky

justinwolfers.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Add up the claimed savings on the DOGE website and (right now )you get $7.19b from contract savings, and $0.14b from real estate, for a total of $7.3b, or $21.47 per American.

Trump is talking about giving a "DOGE dividend" of 20% of these savings.

Enjoy your $4.29.

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testypoet99.bsky.social•1 day ago

And some of you will get a big slice of the denied service.

robinindfw.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Meanwhile, thousands of federal workers are out of a job. Ask them where will they spend their $4.29 DOGE dividend.

arriadna.bsky.social•1 day ago

No thanks.🙂‍↔️

ssshupe.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Important to note that "contract savings" means stiffing people you've already agreed to pay.

commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social•1 day ago

$4.29

veracitas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Probably another few $8 Millions that the whiz kids put down as Billions. It happens to all of us.

tinphx.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, thank you. I’ll take the gov’t services & employed people & soft power. I like national parks & disease detectives & innovations in things that actually make life better.

ikew2020.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’d rather have cancer research and feed some of the world’s hungry.

green496.bsky.social•1 day ago

This makes it clear what a bargain government is. For $20 a person, we were funding international development, a bunch of scientific research, and tax investigators recovering money for the American people?

davidcmurphy.bsky.social•1 day ago

best i can do is tree fiddy

benschaeffer.bsky.social•1 day ago

The China and steel tariffs add $25/month of tax burden on the average taxpayer. It's been about a month now so I regret to inform you we made a mistake on the $4.29 check, it seems you actually owe $20.61

headasploding.bsky.social•1 day ago

Americans, make your payment by purchasing an appropriate amount of Trump memecoins at the top of a pump surge and then frantically try to sell it off at end of the dump stage, please and thank you.

benschaeffer.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think we are going to do US treasuries instead, that'll be fun.

headasploding.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good ol' Donbucks. In Trump We Trust. He cleaned out the rotten corruption at the Treasury and now we're printing big, beautiful dollar bills with Trump's face on them and Mar-a-Lago in the background. Grown men are weeping and saying, "Sir! Sir! I've never loved money more than this." Tremendous!

twitskeptic.sirvin.com•1 day ago

It's much less then that - about $1B from contract savings. Lots of reasons, including counting money already spent in previous fiscal years in multi-year contracts. https://bsky.app/profile/twitskeptic.sirvin.com/post/3ligggszfys2m

adam-lipman.bsky.social•1 day ago

You forgot to net out the costs of DOGE which are nontrivial.

pyoter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just saw him on CNN and MSNBC...such a pleasure listening to him. Total baller.

terencedonohoe.bsky.social•16 hours ago

This is so funny. They give 20% back to citizens as a bribe (but it only demonstrates the value of everything they cut as it such a small amount), 20% goes to paying debt (the supposed reason for DOGE existing, why only 20%?????) and the remaining 60% goes where? Oh yea, rich people.

jmlitel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I do not want Musk and DOGE blood money, no matter the amount! People have died and are dying because of the cuts to departments and the closure of other departments. Plus, leave our data alone! Fire Musk! Impeach Trump!

richlevine6.bsky.social•1 day ago

And those are claimed savings.

slowlysippingtea.bsky.social•1 day ago

How’s DOGE going to get that to everyone? Dick Tater just killed USPS.

joshuahunter.bsky.social•1 day ago

All moot anyway since DOGE operations are illegitimate and grossly unconstitutional.

tradingsmiles.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/tradingsmiles.bsky.social/post/3lipefxhzas2m

wendella.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'll buy a small cup of coffee.

cbirr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I will be spending it all in one place, thank you.

mishylu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh Look 👀, you can Now buy 1/2 a dozen eggs 🥚🙄

richarddubourg.bsky.social•1 day ago

That'd be funny. Actually do the reimbursement in eggs. Footage of federal agents handing out eggs from the back of trucks. Like some Third World disaster zone.

mishylu.bsky.social•1 day ago

jurph.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wow I can almost buy an egg

chrononaut.bsky.social•1 day ago

Which can now buy you half a dozen eggs.
https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3limn3j5q7s2t

headasploding.bsky.social•1 day ago

Am I correct that their current numbers do not include the "savings" of laying off probationary workers across departments. "Savings," of course, since the legal expenses, performance drop-off of affected departments, and costs for hiring privatized workers to fix the mess is not factored in.

schmearsonlehman.bsky.social•1 day ago

that's like 6 eggs!!

dibblehepcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Brexit dividend for Americans

dibblehepcat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Which $4.29 more than the Brexit dividend for Brits

taoofchris.bsky.social•1 day ago

Damn... yesterday it was $11.

tomgiberson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Will we get our cut pre or post litigation costs? Because if it’s post they’re gonna be sending each of us a bill.

justinwolfers.bsky.social•1 day ago

Note: DOGE claims that its savings add up to $55b. It hasn't detailed where the missing $48b is coming from.

Also worth noting: DOGE was caught overcounting by at least $8b. Then it corrected that error, but the $55b number remained. So who knows what it means?

justinwolfers.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course, my $4.29 estimate is taking DOGE's estimates of savings as being correct.

Here's an epic X thread by @electricfutures which suggests that almost every number they interrogate turns out to be an exaggeration.

So perhaps it's not quite $4.29 yet.
https://x.com/electricfutures/status/1892432354016202831

i-sing-of-olaf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Two dollars! I want my two dollars! (circling the white house on my bmx)

mstaff.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nice throw back.

justinwolfers.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's never too hard to find the first couple of nickels lost behind the couch, but then it gets progressively harder. So $4.29 may not be the whole story, but one wonders how much more they're going to find.

The promised $5,000 dividend seems a distant dream.

Even a dozen eggs is a reach.

wilkos.bsky.social•1 day ago

“$5,000 checks coming in two weeks - we’re looking into it quite strongly..”

lighthouses7.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don't forget it'll be taxed...

socrates80.bsky.social•1 day ago

Just wait till they get to the Social Security trust fund 🤦‍♂️

martin012.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not to worry. They'll make up some number out of thin air and the US will borrow to pay for the rebates. The dumb-asses will sing his praises and many will stop complaining about the autocratic takeover. It's probably a smart move for trump politically.

madsweeneyhh.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Stimmy Checks 2.0.

musashidesigns.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also they don’t include the money being lost by cutting IRS, NIH, etc. that have a positive return on every dollar invested

strycco.bsky.social•1 day ago

Someone claiming to be a “contracting officer with the federal government” posted this on the fednews reddit page. They seem to be canceling out BPAs (blanket purchase agreements) and registering that as savings based on the maximal amount.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/X4NNvX4Xvd

looktogod.bsky.social•1 day ago

Watch them refuse to release tax refunds. I doubt they'll even care to give a justification for why that is legitimate stoppage of waste considering the rest of them have been rotten.

stevek46202.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not sure how there’d be a dividend because 1 the money has already been spent, 2 we’ve got a $2t budget deficit this year, 3 we’re $37t in debt. The MAGAs seem to think they’re getting a $5000-$8000 dividend.

martin012.bsky.social•1 day ago

It won't matter. They'll be borrowing the money anyway. Just a bit more added to the deficit.

stevezorowitz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm going to disagree with you--they're going to make up some savings number, throw a pct of that into the tax bill and send out a small check and hide the extra deficit in all the other details.

$5T in new debt, $5.2T, what's the diff? Rob Peter to pay...Peter. It's what Trump does.

makingbetterworld.bsky.social•1 day ago

So this $5,000 is not 20% of savings. It is payment for…? Trying to help public opinion?

jos1463.bsky.social•1 day ago

A pre midterm voter bribe

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