It's not "saving," and especially not "waste." Media is doing such a disservice by falling for that canard. Saving by eliminating waste means same (or better) benefits for less money. These are illegal payment stops with downsides. Like "saving" money by not getting your kids' necessary medication. - ThreadSky

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social • 3 days ago

It's not "saving," and especially not "waste." Media is doing such a disservice by falling for that canard.

Saving by eliminating waste means same (or better) benefits for less money. These are illegal payment stops with downsides. Like "saving" money by not getting your kids' necessary medication.

Reposted from Bloomberg News

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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msdonnam1.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don't believe a word he says.

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•3 days ago

When dealing with proven serial liars, that's called common sense.
And yet, in this instance at least, common sense is unfortunately not so common.

osmfcpx.com•3 days ago

“Faster weigh tloss than Ozempic!”
*cuts off arm*
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hughromine.bsky.social•3 days ago

Media isn't 'falling' for anything. When are people going to understand media is owned by the very people we are in a fight for our lives with? What will it take to understand that? Media isn't feckless and stupid; it's complicit. Corporate media is the enemy and we fail to see that at our peril.

artsulselva.bsky.social•3 days ago

And it’s not a “cost-cutting effort”— infuriating that the media continues to pliantly adopt this framing.

firthermor.bsky.social•3 days ago

“DOGE says it has impounded $55 billion.”

FIFT

3fecta.bsky.social•3 days ago

We stopped providing Medicaid to your neighbor on oxygen and meds, which saved you money.

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•3 days ago

Worse. It's "we stopped providing Medicaid to your neighbor on oxygen and meds, and used those 'savings' to give me and my rich friends a big tax cut."

artsulselva.bsky.social•3 days ago

Right, the assumption that these cuts will translate into tax savings for most people is Fox chyron stuff

corruption47.bsky.social•3 days ago

HE ISNT ROOTING OUT WASTE, FRAUD OR ABUSE. HE IS PART OF REPUBLICAN EFFORT TO FUND $4.5 TRILLION IN TAX CUTS FOR THE RICHEST AMERICANS AND TO PRIVATIZE AND REDUCE PUBLIC SERVICES WR ALL RELY ON.

huardsmith.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s actually a brilliant plan to give themselves tax cuts AND give themselves businesses that (when run “like a business”) will deliver more profits to them (which won’t be taxed!).

pitbullmtkerr.bsky.social•3 days ago

I don’t hear anything from government on environment.

jimers.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just think how much Musk could save by firing all the Tesla factory workers. He would save billions, of course wouldn't have any cars to sell. That's the logic that seems to drive DOGE efforts to eliminate "waste" in all the agencies he's dismantling.

kpap.bsky.social•3 days ago

And my big question: Saving for whom? I mean, am I personally really going to see any change in my finances? Likely not. All I'm getting out of this is a front row seat to the collapse of our society.

justthewinddrake.bsky.social•3 days ago

The government doesn't "save money". They can print as much money as they need. What the government needs is people to do the work that the money pays for.

Without that work, the money is going to become worthless.

waa2112.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sorry, I do not believe that our MSM is "falling" for anything. They are complicit. They are in on it.

Just ask the billionaire owners of our MSM so-called "news" outlets, who also happen to be tRump supporters and donors.

This is by design.

annporterla.bsky.social•3 days ago

All they have to do is replace "saves" with "cuts," which is accurate and is a neutral term.

melissacombs.bsky.social•3 days ago

Disservice? It’s utter BS. Mainstream media should be ashamed for not calling what is happening a fracking coup.

enoughofthis4.bsky.social•2 days ago

Then they’d just have to face another lawsuit that they would eventually cave to.

huardsmith.bsky.social•3 days ago

They mean “saving” as in “not spending”. They mean “waste” as in “spending on something they don’t care about”. They don’t care about outcomes that had been being created. To them, these “savings” can best be redeployed into tax cuts.

blake1919.bsky.social•3 days ago

What waste? Cutting an important program purely for political purposes isn’t saving money. And the potential damage may easily exceed whatever imaginary savings that musk is claiming.

nicholasgrossman.bsky.social•3 days ago

DOGE is clearly not a "cost-cutting effort." It is very obviously a government-breaking effort.

This isn't remotely subtle. Anyone who goes along with the make-believe—rather than calls it what it is—is helping them hurt millions of Americans, US national interests, and people around the world.

turnitup5000db.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you! I’ve been saying this whole time that musks only interest (and Trumps too, actually) is just in breaking any system that could possibly govern them.

dw54.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s only a “cost cutter” in the sense that they will claim that their wildly inflated savings will offset the coming insane tax cuts for the wealthy

tierneyrex.bsky.social•3 days ago

I could lose a lot of weight quickly if I cut off my left arm. Surely this will have no downsides.

article1fan.bsky.social•2 days ago

100% this 👆🏻

charlie62.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Trump Musk administration is all “ make believe”. The disturbing truth is that a plurality of America prefers that over facts. The truth can be uncomfortable, takes longer, and requires more from us.

enoughofthis4.bsky.social•2 days ago

🎯💯🎯💯🎯

corruption47.bsky.social•3 days ago

HE ISNT ROOTING OUT WASTE, FRAUD OR ABUSE. HE IS PART OF REPUBLICAN EFFORT TO FUND $4.5 TRILLION IN TAX CUTS FOR THE RICHEST AMERICANS AND TO PRIVATIZE AND REDUCE PUBLIC SERVICES WR ALL RELY ON.

hongito.bsky.social•3 days ago

These are true believers in the deep state, I think the rampage around institutions is partly due to their expectation of finding damming evidence to back their case, but so far it's looking like all they found is a decently efficient bureaucracy!

fatraccoon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Taking one wheel off the car makes it lighter, therefore more efficient. Imagine of you removed all four wheels.

cashel.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do we have any idea what percentage of that is in payroll costs (which I suppose would translate into some smaller amount of taxes they the IRS won’t now be receiving)?

akatzel.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’d go further, @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social - it’s more akin to refusing to buy groceries for your family this week, clocking the money not spent on groceries as “savings” on Sunday night, without accounting for the fact that you know you’ll have to pay for take out every day the coming week.

elijahprobst.bsky.social•3 days ago

Anyone that’s worked for a corporation knows what this is. Savings are usually bullshit and represent a worse future.

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