Elon Musk’s promised savings from his DOGE operation has shrunk from $2 trillion to what he now claims is $150 billion, or just 7.5% of the amount initially promised. Now, new estimates suggest his cost-cutting crusade might actually end up costing MORE than what he claims to have saved taxpayers.
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We are 👉👌
No savings, just poor governance and lots of damage.
I could cut things like home insurance and laundry soap completely out of my budget, but I wouldn't be stupid enough to crow about how much I was saving.
Or "saving" money on the kids by not getting them educated.
Or by not maintaining aircraft.
Or by not testing safety of food and pharmaceuticals.
Short-term saving. Long-term harm.
I have no sympathy
This was about gaining access to private information and sharing it with outside actors.
This was about protecting Starlink and Space X. Stopping investigations into both of those companies.
This was about consolidating new contracts for both of those companies
And I dare say the opportunity cost of all, the fall out, the firing & rehiring etc / I wouldn’t be surprised if the so called cost cutting resulted in increased cost in fact - and that’s not even factoring in the human aspect
It was obvious that Musk only did the raids in the federal agencies for only and only one single purpose: outsource the services to him and his billionaires friends
https://bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.social/post/3lnsfwnw23k2t
He’s a tosser; always has been, always will be.
Until it’s seared into the average American’s point of view when government isn’t working for them they won’t care.
Need it on the networks. @msnbc pressing and Fox defending.
The cost to US citizens as we face a world with few government services and few protections is going to be astronomical.
Next week: need salt, ran out of butter last week, toilet rolls (how much!) .... £150 thank you.
He's done that and more.
One good outcome...he successfully gutted his own, Tesla!
He's done. Show him the door.
Reopening hollowed-out agencies,
Back-pay,
IRS revenues down by billions,
Lawsuits…..
Real geniuses, these #DOGEdicks and #FOTUS
Musk won, America lost, and we allowed it.
Dollars to donuts this will increase the deficit _before_ new tax cuts considered.
I'm so shocked!
How much did he take?
Trump fucks up everything he touches.
At least one idiot who thought he knew it all, but didn't.
Musk, the great business genius.
It's like firing your dentist and writing about having to pay a severance payment. Yes, but ALSO your teeth fall out. That part matters too.
Rather it's what Musk expected to reap from ending investigations, lawsuits, & regulation of his businesses as well as gains from no-bid contracts and dependency on his technologies.
But we’ll make it up in volume he says.
Public infrastructure isn’t a tech startup you can “disrupt’’ and rebuild later. It’s the *foundation* ordinary people depend on to survive . . . water, power, health systems, safety nets. When you break it for short-term gains, the cost isn’t just money. It’s human lives.
I see the motivation for Musk as the opportunity to make a lucrative business out of services that had been public.
The DOGE endeavor had one goal - gathering all the data held by the federal govt and monetizing it for private gain.
Put Liberals In Their Place.
Shocked I am.
Do you know how much Putin will pay for complete access to America's computer systems?
How much did he not pocket?