Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-trump-musk-funding-foia-congress-transparency

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patientadvocacy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Eliminate DOGE & save all the money they are pretending is fraud in other departments!

ericasco.bsky.social•2 days ago

On the other hand, now we’ve got hard evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government. Just not the way they claim.

thatcoloradoguy.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Once you realize this is all a grift every move they do makes sense.

Fire public employees so they can contract out to buddies

“Cut” costs to give the wealthy a tax break

Sell off public assets to their friends

audrey60.bsky.social•2 days ago

Running that ego is not cheap

sallyatticum.bsky.social•1 day ago

They fired the career experts who had training, knowledge and continuity, who had been adding to and updating the monstrous Frankenstein of a system made up of 30 different COBOL programs.... They are going to break it irreparably and claim they need to build it from scratch.

jotata75.bsky.social•1 day ago

… for more money!

juddburrows.bsky.social•2 days ago

Lies upon lies upon lies. Jail Musk. Boycott Tesla.

rootedwanderer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Looks like he is stealing more than his results. Kind sounds like all the other billions of dollars we have given him. How many billions will we give him before we realize we got nothing in returned?

james.claims•2 days ago

Huh, and all the jobs for his Nazi Youth brigade were advertised as long hours for little pay… curious where that’s all going

thorvalhalla.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not very efficient after all.

ben-223.bsky.social•1 day ago

Congress didn't appropriate any of this. It's illegal.

hunterub.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've heard a lot of euphemisms for cocaine over my life but "software modernization initiative" is a new one.

carlalalala12.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Hey DOGE, here to help, found your WASTE!

jackieogburn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Awfully pricey for an agency that's only a month old. That would be a burn rate of almost half a billion $ a year.

bluebirdofunhap.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know where they could cut nearly $40M

blpwilson.bsky.social•1 day ago

I thought it was 400m

jotata75.bsky.social•1 day ago

So they received 39 mio USD to save 8 mio USD????

This is the art if the steal!

gm0rk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Other than their own salaries, I'm not clear what it's being spent on. They just show up and fire people without doing anything.

pastout.bsky.social•1 day ago

A lot more grifting to come. All big tech gave Trump millions personally to "sit at the table". No telling how much Elon had to give in order to gain his unfettered access. Eventually they’ll all get their one-on-one time with our money and by then the country will be there’s not ours.

coupie99.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seems like a rich guy would donate his time for the country

thebestwords.bsky.social•1 day ago

So they have spent more than they saved. Color me shocked.

ecowen.bsky.social•2 days ago

How much will it cost to make the system secure again?

kenmurrayx4.bsky.social•2 days ago

How much would it cost to trash every computer in every department, every data centre rack too and every router and even every USB pen drive and buy replacements for everything? Also everyone's bank account and social security number would have to be replaced too.

ecowen.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's insane, isn't? Unvetted kids running amok in the computer systems of the world's largest economy. I think most countries would consider this an act of treason. Surprised more Americans aren't losing their lunch over it.

grudgingoptimist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Any idea how they're going to pay for this?

ejn71.bsky.social•1 day ago

So much for cutting expenses! Surely those young IT nerds do not get paid much for hacking government computers! DOGE needs to be put on diet doge food and taught to heel.

nanswak.bsky.social•1 day ago

Their actions, for trump, are priceless.

nelebell.bsky.social•2 days ago

WTF!

belvins.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’re gonna steal that money right in front of everyone

zapitron.bsky.social•2 days ago

And does anyone here deny that's DOGE's purpose? Ergo, it's an "official act."

ramhorn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Steal money, ignore the courts. If the elected congress gets enough public push back then maybe some will grow a spine.

belvins.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’ve had ample opportunity, these scumbags don’t care. They care more about making it seem as if they’re putting up a fight while simply just laying down and taking it. Welcome the Wild West era back to the US

tomscud.bsky.social•2 days ago

ten times as expensive

cliff-d-w.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ill bet dollars to dimes DOGE costs more than it saves.
A real president would simply enact the myriad of saving suggestions already laid out by the GAO in detailed audits and reports

simianinsight.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who pockets the DOGE budget?

mjprieve.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doesn’t seem very fiscally efficient.

davejustdave.bsky.social•2 days ago

No one is better at milking the he government for money than Elon. Oh wait he isn’t in charge!

swiffy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds like fraud, waste, and abuse all together

rob1946.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you want a nationally televised dramatic and symbolic moment to galvanize the opposition to Trump/Musk, promote this: the elected Dems seat themselves at the State of the Union (March 4), then rise and march out en masse when Trump begins speaking. Send this idea to your Dem rep. Plant the seed!

radiostatik.bsky.social•1 day ago

He learned his lesson during his campaign events, he’ll lock the doors.

rob1946.bsky.social•1 day ago

That would be even better!

debkat.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think they should show up in the first place.

odocoileus.bsky.social•1 day ago

living in Trump hotels inc. isn't cheap for tax payers.

dogeisdumb.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Another dumb move by DOGE. Check out this website about the failings of DOGE: https://www.dogeisdumb.com

clearstorm.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sounds like theft.

mikereinholz777.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's almost half a billion dollars a year. For a handful of creepy prepubescent hackers.

doctorcrispin.bsky.social•2 days ago

I thought it was to be staffed with unpaid volunteers

curiousgeorge14.bsky.social•2 days ago

Me too! Isn't that what Muskrat promised?

Instead, it's a grift. Quelle surprise.

bluetx3.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bet a bunch is for Leon’s security goons. The US Marshal’s just deputized them.

thecoolestguy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gotta break some eggs to bring down the republic, amiright folks?

whipstitch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Where are they getting the money? Surely Congress didn't appropriate it.

mpsmomma.bsky.social•1 day ago

Re-routing money Congress allocated for other agencies?

edwelty.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s gotta reimburse 3lon for the contributions someway.

jacunderatree.bsky.social•2 days ago

Costs a lot to feed fledgling criminals.

boidle.bsky.social•1 day ago

And nobody ever expected the richest man in the world to pay for this weird performance art experiment out of his own funds.

jaywilliams.pro•2 days ago

the grift that keeps on grifting

katrynlanthier.bsky.social•2 days ago

Once again outstanding Reporting from ProPublica !

zathras5.bsky.social•2 days ago

On the one hand, Musk is ordering agencies not to spend money Congress has appropriated. But, he’s balancing that out by spending money on things Congress never even debated!

dustbunny44.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hey, it’s not his money.🙄

chambie58.bsky.social•1 day ago

First month!!!

ckolson1.bsky.social•2 days ago

We found the WASTE and the FRAUD! It's the DOGE.

splitrailfence.bsky.social•2 days ago

Now is a giant wad composed of America's worst corruption moments including Credit Mobilier + Teapot Dome + Tammany Hall + Morgan's start up capital made by selling defective rifles he'd bought for cheap + many more.

fluffynovacat.bsky.social•2 days ago

How do they have "funding"? Where is that money coming from.

michellebadger.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Most of DOGE’s money, records show, has come in the form of payments from other federal agencies made possible by a nearly century-old law called the Economy Act. To steer those funds to the new department, the Trump administration has treated DOGE as if it were a federal agency..."

michellebadger.bsky.social•2 days ago

"And by dispatching members of its staff to other agencies and having those staffers issue edicts about policy and personnel, DOGE has also behaved as if it has agency-level authority."

fluffynovacat.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Why is there always a loophole and who figured this out?!

klisa26.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s a lot of money for staff. What other expenses do they have?

joshea31.bsky.social•2 days ago

Between this and the amount of money being spend on DJT boondoggles for golf and sporting events….

mrxianstovall.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can’t they just be paid from the billions they’re saving us?

debkat.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm sure that they'll be very transparent about where they are using all this money right down to the penny. This is absolutely outrageous. No accountability AT ALL. Personally, I think Musk is stealing our taxpayer $$.