So in 4 years and 30 days Trump owns 12 trillion dollars of the US 40 trillion dollar debt, over 25% of over 260 years of operation. Republicans need to. hear this s#!t LOUD
MAN you know they found NOTHING if this is what they are putting out there as their example of waste. This is like maybe 100k at best, and all of this can be accounted for getting a better licensing deal with a bigger bundle, that also gives them headroom for growth. Pathetic.
I don’t know about “all” but there a lot of factors that make this much to do about nothing. Trump spends more than this at the turn on one of his many, many golf days that cost millions.
Bingo. I've worked in IT for over 10 years and this is actually normal practice. There are always spare licenses sitting around for exactly those reasons
in a sane company, you'd balance those savings with the DOGE overheads used to detect them and probably would just pull the plug. They are pathetic. Someone explain them what is the payback time.
it is never about the numbers they include, it is about the ones they exclude. how many contractors do they have, how many satellite offices are there, how many of the contracts that include clause that give breaks across the various organizations if they buy extra just to increase market share #s?
And MAYBE ~400 licenses weren’t being used just as of this month, probably because their uses were fired or lied to about getting a severance for quitting
This is like having $1 billion dollars and finding savings worth a penny, being proud of it, all while incurring expenses of $1 million in the process.
Why do we expect guy in maga hat & sunglasses, who admits he's trippin bawls on ketamine & who former employees have reported also likes street drugs, e.g. cocaine, to do ANYTHING that makes sense, or benefits citizens. STEP AWAY FROM NORMALCY BIAS. ACKNOWLEDGE
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It’s silly; maybe the pricing was sold in bulk ranges. E.g., maybe they needed 60 licenses but they were being sold in multiples of 50. So to get 60, you had to pay for 100, leaving 40 unused (for now!) Often single licenses are not offered. It’s clear these people have never had actual experience.
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So many variables can apply, like quantity discounts making larger purchases cheaper, or length of the contract & support.
These things are negotiated, they aren't buying off the shelf.
Gee that's kinda weird given that VSCode is open source. One has to wonder what else in that post might be the products of the department of flights of fancy.
Elon is once again exploiting peoples ignorance. A government agency with thousands of people buys licenses in bulk. It is not entirely a government thing. It is a Microsoft thing. You buy a bulk of licenses usually at a better price than what you would get if you bought one license at a time.
That and support benefits. 380 Office 365 licenses and 128 Conference licenses for an agency of thousands( 16,922 in 2023) that might have still been hiring people up until Trump took over isn't that big of a deal and likely won't save the government any money until their true-up with Microsoft.
Look at this foreign creep calling his ridiculous efforts a department. It isn't anything. Trump is letting this ketamine jacked up moron run amok cause he bought him an election. I'm so angry with the lack of fight and pushback. None of this should be happening. Turning us into banana republic.
Wow, great job! I'm assuming tomorrow DOGE will announce that Trump will personally be paying taxpayers back for his $27 million Super Bowl visit, as well as the millions he's spending on golf? No? Also, stop being SO obvious about trying to justify your obviously inept handling of EVERYthing, Elon!
@briantylercohen.bsky.social Bulk license deals usually lower the price per license while leaving some unused.
If there were anything to see, they would publish a table showing the government’s total license cost, the number of licenses used, and the savings or “waste” compared to the listed price.
“DOGE is claiming to slash federal spending, although its claims have been so thoroughly debunked that early this morning it quietly deleted all five of the five-biggest ticket items it had touted on its “wall of receipts.”
And yet, most likely, the discount for each license was based on number of seats licensed and the larger number was almost guaranteed to be the same or cheaper than the number of actual users licensed individually.
I think this is even worse. These kids don't even know the process involved with buying licenses in a corporate setting. Buying in bulk is cheaper and these are likely already paid for....
Unsure if this applies to all of the software listed, but the lab I worked for had spare standalone licenses to assign to laptops for use outside the lab (e.g., travel, testing). They were not permitted to be connected to the internet.
If that's what they found... congrats? Those aren't WFA.
Visual Studio has enterprise licenses, Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a different product and it does not have a paid for plan. Idk if they mixed that up or they're talking about a commericial plugin or something, but they should know the difference.
They have more than ten thousand employees and a few hundred licenses too many? I think you'd struggle to find any 10k+ employees organization that doesn't have a few hundred spare licenses of a few programs lying around...
VSCODE IS OPEN SOURCE 🫠 #DOGE is full of shit. They’re using dumb crap like this as a front for dismantling and consolidating power to Elon Musk. Trump wants immunity and the government m… Musk wants to be Megamind MAGA. This was also hella predictable 🙄
Everyone in a swing district needs to pressure their R MoCs. Let them know you see right through their hurting us to enrich themselves scheme. It only takes 2 votes in the House to keep this horror from passing once it’s reconciled with the Senate version.
Microsoft 365 govt software provides compliance with federal requirements for cloud services, compliance with Dept of Defense Security Requirements, govt content is segregated, and this is just a few safeguards
So yea just replace govt software withTik tok or twitter
Except they didn’t. Unless they were buying licenses on monthly terms (with a 20% upcharge), they have an annual commitment that cannot be adjusted down. They can modify them at the renewal date, but that is when the audit-for-use happens anyway.
#idiots
Hey, those 365 licenses are expensive! Microsoft reported a 34% profit margin in 2024, I'm sure we could save money by enforcing anti trust laws and drive down those prices
What is DOGE getting paid? Fed employees have their salaries made public for all to see. Do we know what each DOGE employee is earning? They’ve had millions directed towards them for sure.
You’d see same if you did a software license audit at any company. Contracts are negotiated (usually for 2-5 yr terms) based on user count baselines & tiers for # of licenses. It’s like movie popcorn…it costs xx for 10 licenses but for an extra fifty cents, you get 50k licenses. This is a joke.
I've found waste akin to this in the private sector... paying for pagers in 2008 that no one even had. And I was only making 70k at the time. Pathetic.
The really sad thing is that no dipshit Maga is going to understand any of that, only seeing numbers and thinking Leon is doing great. I often wonder what it would be like to go through life with only one brain cell.... do you sleep well? 🤔
How do we know what this says is true…….you cannot trust anything DOGE is promoting……just yesterday they pulled their promotion regarding the 5 highest cases of fraud……it was the fraud…putting up fraudulent claims
And every one would have been bought at volume discount meaning a fraction of the normal shelf price. Allowing the deprtment to use them as needed and grow where needed. A standard practice across business for decades. They are morons lead by idiots desperately trying to justify their existence.
Let's revoke Elon Musk's American citizenship! We have legal grounds for this, and it goes through the court, not Congress. MuskRat has no respect for our Constitution, our country, and our people. He doesn't deserve to be American! Sign and repost! https://chng.it/yVwGnDCqCR
This is the type of thing that people who've never run a business think is wasteful.
It's likely they got a group rate on those licenses and will pay more to buy individual licenses when they bring on additional people. But, a drug-addicted rich weirdo told them it was waste, so...
That’s all the breath of knowledge teenage hackers know. Software agreements is their wheelhouse and not much else. So this is hack and slash with a software pretend audit. Got it!
Yah, they’re really fixing all the problems (not) and blowing up interest rates…. When are the price of eggs coming down and when is travel to Texas going to be cordoned off due to the measles’s outbreak there?
This is just the beginning. Next step privatizing the services they cut based on the lie that we don't need them. The Republicans betray America everyday. Let's ask the people in the special elections what they think.
And what about all the people using 1 or 2 sheets of toilet paper above the allocated toilet paper allowance. I’m sure they can squeeze a couple of bucks out of it and pocket it themselves.
There's a country saying, 'Picking fly shit from pepper'. That's the miniscule wins DOGE has achieved despite their massive disruption. Disruption is the goal, not cost savings.
Assuming that everyone uses office, this means that the department is using 97.5% of its licenses and has 2.5% in reserve to provision new users. That's a pretty tight ship. Also, the cyber security tiers may not have include a 15K option. The only choices may have been 10K or 20K.
that is how much my department would have extra incase of growth or another state wide shutdown order.. and musk is bragging about saving that for the entirety of the US federal government??
As someone who purchases Microsoft licenses in bulk for large enterprise teams, it is often actually cheaper to buy more than you need due to volume discounts as a ‘Microsoft partner’.
You can see this is the bullshit stuff they do in dodgy tech companies while sacking people and raking in huge profits. This is the same model they'll use for the government while firing federal employees and raking in huge tax cuts for the wealthy. I'm calling it.
They haven't quite gotten the tax cuts yet. They must detail what they will do on a line-item basis for the budget. We'll see how they make Medicare/Medicaid/VA/SNAPS cuts palatable.
no matter what president mush and his bitch convicted felon trump says, maga will believe it. stupidity is the biggest threat to our country, not racism, sexism and religious. Stupid people are the most dangerous group on the planet and maga is proving that.
So when someone new starts work there, they won't be able to do anything for a day while someone procures a new MS 365 licence and sorts it out on the system!
Plus the IT team will probably need to employ someone specially to handle 'just in time / too late' licence provision.
no worries, they will pay it off with some funds from our data that gets sold to a communist country in the guise of massive savings discovered from dOGe...and look like such heroes 🤦
Their base doesn’t understand that this list is a nothing burger but they see it as “stuff being done” which is good in their pea brains because they view the government as useless- not realizing all the services and programs it provides…
I've worked for big bureaucracies before so I know how this kind of thin happens but the scale here makes me wonder if they are including among the "unused" those licenses that up until the big purge were actually in use. They've played fast an loose w/numbers since Day One.
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As a learner-centered teacher, I need software to create more diverse and engaging lessons. Maybe i won't use it but I can't wait to ASK for it.
It's the condom rule: better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
Such utter bullshit.
Like, could this be made more efficient and save a few dollars in the future? Perhaps. But it does nothing in the here and now.
Most time quality gives a better break in cost.
It may cost less to have unused ones.
This isn't saving shit!
#5calls #speakup #protectdemocracy
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So many variables can apply, like quantity discounts making larger purchases cheaper, or length of the contract & support.
These things are negotiated, they aren't buying off the shelf.
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Gee that's kinda weird given that VSCode is open source. One has to wonder what else in that post might be the products of the department of flights of fancy.
Trump. Joke.
MAGA. Joke.
Why aren’t we literally running these people over and putting an end to this?
If there were anything to see, they would publish a table showing the government’s total license cost, the number of licenses used, and the savings or “waste” compared to the listed price.
- does anyone have screen shots of this?
- Kristi Noem Homeland security propaganda video $200 mil
-Super Bowl $20 mil
-NASCAR - $5 mil
- Trump’s North Korea face banners in front of Kennedy Center $ at least a couple fired fed worker salaries
they are selling nothing burgers like they are mcdonalds
Also, what is a cyber security license?
If that's what they found... congrats? Those aren't WFA.
So yea just replace govt software withTik tok or twitter
They do not tell it all
#idiots
After the douche team gets paid, net result will be that I owe more taxes
Then after half the people get fired and everyone is doing multiple jobs, you’ll need more licenses to spread around.
This is a fun exercise in wasting money
Trump's Republicans are only all-in for the rich.
How much is the Muskrat contracts costing us?
It's likely they got a group rate on those licenses and will pay more to buy individual licenses when they bring on additional people. But, a drug-addicted rich weirdo told them it was waste, so...
Plus they almost certainly get massive volume discounts. Literal peanuts cost wise to even a medium size business
the stupid ones got us here.
And it's not like the Federal Government pays full price for licenses anyway.
Congratulations, they saved $10K.
and support contracts for both are not called that in the first place....
And I bet they would find stuff like this in his own businesses.
LOL - its because its very little.
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#DOGE is a chaos machine, and our debt ceiling is raised thanks to "conservatives" who want to line the pockets of #Trump and #Musk.
Now about those trillions…
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Budget already cut funding for Medicaid and SNAP and the House agreed.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2025/02/26/whats-next-for-the-house-budget-00206161
Also many institutional /site licenses are only sold in predetermined bundles … not adapted to the specific number of users.
In short I call bullshit.
Plus the IT team will probably need to employ someone specially to handle 'just in time / too late' licence provision.
TLDR: stupid people are stupid 🙃
Is DOGE even PMP certified
If you were never a manager just say that
Also, WTF is a "cybersecurity" license?