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karaswisher.bsky.social • 1 day ago

As predicted on @pivotpod.bsky.social

DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress
Elon Musk now says his group will produce only 15 percent of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork.

Gift article

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

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uppaalaska.bsky.social•1 day ago

Resisters, peacefully attend your local protest. Wouldn’t it be cool if every Blue Sky member would show up too?

#BuildtheResistance

dj8200.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, this is his whoops....just whoops. The brainiacs couldn't do the job, couldn't find the $$$. No joke, they were told this in the beginning but they had to burn the house down to disprove it or was that the objective...burn it all down. At least he's paid a big price for being a pawn & joker.

mmccaughan.bsky.social•1 day ago

So massive disruptions to government agencies, and taxpayers for minimal benefit thanks largely to musks mind boggling incompetence.

kat1813.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data

lakitukl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah. Palantir. From the last I read on depth on it its "permissiveness" on casualities from its advice was nothing I'd want in my country.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

barlach.bsky.social•1 day ago

It seems like there is no deep state and no bunch of federal government workers who do little work slowly and poorly…

The only benefit of the corrupt and incompetent DOGE was to confirm the federal government was doing okay until Trump 2.

vernonkona.bsky.social•1 day ago

DOGE tallies up its savings so far&inflates its progress by including billion $ errors by counting spending that will not happen in the next fiscal year&making guesses about spending that might not happen at all
1 of the groups largest claims in fact involves canceling a contract that did not exist

tom1957.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is why it is important to continue protesting. Every week. Eventually every day if needed. Join in and protect Democracy.

mojumi.bsky.social•1 day ago

Frightening for Uk people is that there are now Conservative politicians pronouncing that every local council needs a DOGE, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of council expenditure is on education, waste collection, public services...but also that it is both a failure and deeply unpopular.

fhohenauer.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are going to blame the Democrats. Or Arabs or Jews or foreign agents. They are never going to blame themselves, they are never ever going to take responsibility.

handle.invalid•1 day ago

Come on, Kara. You know this was never their actual goal.

vivalasmecca.bsky.social•1 day ago

The whole situation always had Geraldo-opening-Capone’s-vault vibes.

flyingmonkeys.bsky.social•1 day ago

In simple terms - they just make shit up for public consumption and some idiots believe it. That's their whole shtick.

andrewkey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elon must be sued for damages that led to human suffering due to disease, lack of proper nutrition and the destruction of the US education system. Sue that mf-er for every penny he got

akwilhelm.bsky.social•1 day ago

They just make shit up. And still the MAGAt loving Fox News support this guy. WTF
Do the folks enjoy pain?

alkisky.bsky.social•1 day ago

The whole premise for DOGE was a lie. They knew they wouldn’t find “waste, fraud, and abuse.” That was just a ruse to infiltrate the government and hack the databases.

cripsydamnduck.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Project 2025's plan clearly calls for firing the bureaucracy and replacing it with yes men. That's the point. Not waste.

sandgirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤔 So the government wasn't as inefficient as he claimed?
Other than politicians, government workers are tax paying citizens that take their job seriously to protect their fellow Americans. They are constantly looking for these things. Congress awarding inflated contracts is another thing.

jnifield.bsky.social•1 day ago

They ARE hitting their goal; the goal ISN’T to save money—it’s to hasten end-times fascism.

clyde777.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can you please post some articles not behind a paywall

mondonuevo.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m sure they accounted for unemployment benefits in their calculations. 🥴 https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/ucfe/Federal_Employees_and_Contractors_UC_factsheet.pdf

mxburbank.bsky.social•1 day ago

Far short of it's goal and still overstating it's progress" could easily be the motto of all of Musk's companies.

pauljayson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Add in the amount that this is costing the taxpayers.

sheawolf.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's almost like govt really worked.

sheawolf.bsky.social•1 day ago

But DOGE is producing 1000% of the destruction.

4gg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nothing to show for their destructions, but they get to keep all the stolen data! What a deal for Grifters!

itsrobert.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who would predicted riffing/firing employees would be costly having to dole out severance or paying them to not to work. And then rehiring them once they realize they overdid it?

nenebal.bsky.social•1 day ago

I celebrate predictions from folks who aren't besties with men's rights activist billionaire cum

pghlifelonglearner.bsky.social•1 day ago

Savings need to account for the litigation, unemployment payments, and severance costs plus cost for breaking contracts with vendors.

5miriam9.bsky.social•1 day ago

The goal of DOGE was never to save money. It was to decimate federal departments and abscond with everyone's private data. That mission has been a wild success.

springtomind.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly

noreen900.bsky.social•1 day ago

Liars and thieves.

indignado9910.bsky.social•1 day ago

It sounds like you're well placed to explain how these cowardly, subservient and rather limited men convinced the world of their renaissance-level genius.

jagster5221.bsky.social•1 day ago

And any "savings", which there won't be, will be spent on reconfiguring the computer networks his team of cyber mercenaries took a hatchet too.

elippolis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Isn’t this how you get venture capital tho?

4130chromo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do you think with all the missteps along the way and the redress required to fix what they've broken (science comes to mind) that DOGE interventions are not even likely to break even!?

grumpydoc19.bsky.social•1 day ago

Two words: Burn Book

lilredhead1954.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for the gift article. I can never read things people post from the NY Times or WAPO because I can't afford to subscribe.

jgshrampworth.bsky.social•1 day ago

Losing losers gonna lose

jbarmcc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Plus doing so much damage to all the institutions of our country.

izypee.bsky.social•1 day ago

150B is = to 00.00 with all the grief he gave to federal workers and the American people. His life is not enough to pay for all the lives he destroyed. He might be pardoned but all his actions and should be investigated and exposed when the cheeto shark gets eaten by a bazillion of nano fish.

timewaits.bsky.social•1 day ago

The republicans set out to show that we don’t need government because it is just badly run. Instead they showed that they run a government badly.

valkyrie94.bsky.social•1 day ago

Huge surprise. I bet they got distracted looting Social Security.

cornellmom.bsky.social•1 day ago

Smoke and mirrors.

easy65.bsky.social•1 day ago

Incompetence + wanton cruelty + white christian nationalism =
Handmaid’sTale?
Revolution?
What?

rrmadison.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why hasn’t any evidence been brought before congress? Where’s the fraud and waste that he is claiming?

gajy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you. Valuable information.

aburns.bsky.social•1 day ago

None of this is savings though. They’re making cuts and killing services. They’re reducing income. That’s not a savings.

springtomind.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doge has collected millions of dollars for their “work” destroyed depts of government, all while while creating fear & chaos. This has made us less safe; our privacy, our health, our security, our entire infrastructure is now headed by the worst people in the work. They’re also idiots!

kimsinftw.bsky.social•1 day ago

The reporting we need is how much we’re spending on this dumb team doge, how much their personnel & program cuts will eventually cost us, & how much money was lost when research programs we’ve invested in over time were shut down.

aggiewill666.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s always been about the damage. Killing ecoerience and expertise.

expatgirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a surprise, not

had2bthere.bsky.social•1 day ago

The reduced spend doesn’t matter. What matters is, after decades of little to no oversight, someone is finally sniffing around these fifedoms. And it is effective…watch the bureaucrats all bitch, moan, wiggle and squirm when #DOGE comes calling. They spent $37T…with a “T”. Something has got to give.

probablydreaming.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can't wait for real numbers (reported + synthesized using actual methodology) to reveal the depth of damage done. How best to measure the obliteration of functioning taxpayer-funded services + talent loss? Services that were meticulously researched, designed, and developed for public good, not ego.

khryce.bsky.social•1 day ago

I. Am. Shocked! Butnotsomuch.

oledanielson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Error error error recompute error illogical error sterilize error self-destruct error

nornenauge.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who is that man?

milsma.bsky.social•1 day ago

And are we accounting for the added expense DOGE creates with their wrecking ball approach?

ltrippe.bsky.social•1 day ago

No. And no accounting for what it will cost to find and repair the effects of their meddling in govt. software/data systems.

uaflyer.bsky.social•1 day ago

Given time, some funds will need to be restored or are invalid.
Potentially, a Farm bailout from Tarrifs will eclipse any savings.
Then there are costly QE actions from the FED
There isn't a win here

flyme2damoon.bsky.social•1 day ago

isonope.bsky.social•1 day ago

The word is LYING

ranworth63.bsky.social•1 day ago

Will this cure us of the delusion that businessmen should run the government or will we buy the bridge over and over again forever?

gwill2k.bsky.social•1 day ago

feds spending more money at a faster clip under the new regime; they’ll never reach the goal. but I really don’t think that’s the point of this smash and grab to be honest.

nickzen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elon has lost most of his credibility if not all of it if he wants to find real fraud he should be looking in corporations not the government.

barlach.bsky.social•1 day ago

Starting with himself?

alladonis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elon's always been a two inch man promising a six inch experience.

blue-dot-okc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Canceling contracts doesn’t eliminate waste. It just means something the US government needed, won’t get done now. It’s so stupid.

DOGE will end up costing us billions of dollars.

jayge-e.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nothing that a little lying from Musk, and a lot of MAGA believing unwaveringly in ever larger fairytales, won't fix.

ljccape.bsky.social•1 day ago

Meanwhile, they are throwing away millions and millions and millions of dollars through their chaotic and authoritarian approach, in order to create suffering and destruction. The federal budget used to fund initiatives and agencies to protect people, now it’s used to hurt them & so Trump can golf.

kryptokraft.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Yes but I imagine they’ve achieved nearly 100% of their grift

bluejay207.bsky.social•1 day ago

The goal was to undermine the foundations of democracy. Efficiency and saving money was just a cover. So far it's been like taking candy from a baby

channel37phnhm.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's data and control they are after, under the guise of savings.

weetyuk.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was all an excuse to mine the data
Fire swathes of people to justify savings

Privatise service to fix things when things collapse

Sell off land/assets and allow logging etc on Federal land

And funnel money to Trumps tax cuts to his Billionaire friends

schrodingersmite.bsky.social•1 day ago

DOGE was a spectacular success for what it was actually set up for: Dismantling popular and functioning government institutions to make government less effective; all while providing a minor offset for the tax cuts for oligarchs.

gigiagogroove.bsky.social•1 day ago

Scott would love this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/style/brooklyn-stroll-club-fathers-new-york.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

iampilgrim.bsky.social•1 day ago

#Musk is no better than Stalin

thisteensy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Americans are about to learn that what they paid for their government services was a bargain. We will see none of the savings and we will be far worse off. All to appease people who think it's fine to look at an eclipse with regular sunglasses.

sevenstones.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean he said cyber truck can be a boat as well.

saffship.bsky.social•1 day ago

what if the goal was to destroy, wreak havoc, create chaos, disrupt & slam crypto down our throats to launder treasury funds?

bolosassyandme.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would counter that DOGE's *stated goal* has fallen far short, as expected. We know that was never the real goal.

lisac1.bsky.social•1 day ago

@princessmom122.bsky.social

kjsch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump’s and Musk’s arrogance and hubris are risking our private data, hollowing out our global competitive advantages,and making us less safe.

Companion piece here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/13/upshot/musk-doge-1-trillion-goal.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U4.ciHg.S_CakJy58e6O&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

tpasinet.bsky.social•1 day ago

AND...they've decreased revenue by $500B with bullshit they have pulled at the IRS.

harrowedsparrow.bsky.social•1 day ago

It was all just a (transparent) rude to destroy the "administrative state", cut services to citizens and redirect tax revenues to Trump and his oligarch buddies.

elisajstewart.bsky.social•1 day ago

And how much was spent by this administration? Has Elon saved anything at all?

jkoteen.bsky.social•1 day ago

The question is: is the cost of Elon’s DOGE plunder mission to America greater than even the paltry “savings”? And the answer should be a resounding yes.

tmeltonbechetoille.bsky.social•1 day ago

And killing and estimated 1.2 million people with the illegal impoundment, firing & closure of USAID. Elon just became a mass murderer to cut .35 % of Military budget--the only humanitarian aid we supply.

borednoodle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because THATS NEVER BEEN ITS GOAL. Can we stop pretending that it is?

tfp1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hint: #1 Elon Musk is a Greedy bull shit artist
protecting his own Subsidies Grift.
#2 Elon Musk is a Nazi Asshole.

behold-my-demons.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who would've thought?
I told my dad this would happen months ago and he didn't believe me.

boschii.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ssssoooo...basically they are dismantling our government for shits n giggles 😐...

https://bsky.app/profile/boschii.bsky.social/post/3lm7ma5pxi22t

carolannesundahl.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Mr. Musk’s group has deleted some of its original errors, like entries that triple-counted the same savings, a claim that confused “billion” with “million,” and items that claimed credit for canceling contracts that ended when George W. Bush was president."

wbaker14.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not surprising. Liars cheaters exaggerators. He needs to go.

spiker715.bsky.social•1 day ago

The pretend dept of gov't efficiency has saved nothing but has cost so much more in terms of money spent employing these dopes and the disastrous effect that we will feel very soon by the slashing of necessary services. It will take years to repair the damage that they've caused.

bedigger.bsky.social•1 day ago

15% of the already reduced goal. Initially Musk claimed he could save $2 Trillion.

inventreinvent.bsky.social•1 day ago

15%, even if real, will likely be outweighed by whatever government contracts Elon wins through this whole sham.

yokobaba.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all a show(DOGE+Tariffs) to create the narrative for Republicans to vote for the rich people tax heist(1 big beautiful bill)

isisbianca.bsky.social•1 day ago

It seems like all words that come from this government, R lies, &when lies become the truth and truth become lies how can a society, thrive and unite.
It looks like they’ve taken the handbook from Nazi Germany, Korea, China, Iran, Israel, Hamas… & dumped this hateful chaos onto the American people

kcmindful.bsky.social•1 day ago

We…who have even ‘curiosity’ are not surprised-God forbid we have a brain in our heads..plz let them all spontaneously combust!!!!

pemfd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not surprising, the goal was agency destruction not tax payer savings. This was ideological move from the beginning not a fiscal one.

kali8989.bsky.social•1 day ago

what an effing joke...

DOGE is nothing but a RACKET....

shebikes21.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, well…did we expect anything less? What DoGE is just smoke, mirrors and chaos. Terrible. Like everything T and his minions touch.

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