They are going to need more than that if the intent is to now track the work of every federal employee. The recent email to send 5 or more bullets about our work last week .. Everyone is supposed to respond to OPM. ... And, I am sure, that will all be loaded into AI to look for those next to fire.
I can't believe the program designed to "eliminate waste" that was established outside of the legal processes, headed by a private business owner, and populated by teenage hackers ended up being a money laundering scheme
Trump and Musk are destroying all the agencies that work for the betterment of the American people, and giving the money, our tax dollars to themselves.
Besides the cost of DOGE itself can you calculate how much DOGE will cost in rent & other costs to landlords in previously government-owned facilities, rehiring & retraining employees or contracts with private companies doing the work of governing that doesn’t just disappear?
Because nothing says government efficiency like pillaging every other department's coffers, so you can fill your own. And, their supporters think Elmo and his teenage groupies are somehow saving the taxpayers millions, if not billions, of dollars.
CONGRESS needs to get this South African NAZI out of our government business and impeach and imprison Trump. Every minute they refuse to do so is treason by every single member of Congress.
Where is this money coming from? One of the town halls I watched said Doge workers were federal employees. Did the rebrand of the original agency (digital services or whatever it was before) mean Doge assumed its budget?
We must all stop calling it DOGE, maybe call it so-called DOGE until we come up with something better. 1) It is not a department. A government department is led by a cabinet level secretary confirmed by the Senate. 2) it has absolutely NOTHING to do with efficiency;
It has EVERYTHING to do with Muskolini exacting vengeance on agencies that have, legitimately and legally, tried to reign in his excesses AND moving government contracts from, for instance, NASA, to one of his companies such as SpaceX.
Maddow had a good aside a few weeks ago: Why is the news pronouncing it like that and doing free marketing for the muskrat’s crypto brand? Why not call it by its letters or (to make it sound stupid) DOG-E?
Need a “golf tracker” version. How much are they spending, what happens to the money they “freeze” where is it, how much and who is managing those accounts
Is Tyler Hassen on that list? His signature says he is Special Advisor to the Secretary (DoI Secretary). He has a DOI address and is wreaking havoc with DoI contracting (and all the Bureaus).
I know there’s nothing funny about any of this, but one of the speakers at Bernie Sanders‘ event in Omaha last night kept referring to doge as Paw Patrol, and it made me laugh.
How are they getting money from the government when 1) Musk said he wouldn’t pay people to work 80 hrs/week and 2) Congress has not authorized funds for DOGE so essentially isn’t this a felony theft?
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Flights, meals, and I'm sure parties, housing, who knows anymore. Doesn't Musk pay for staying at Mara Lardo? DOGE funded no doubt, he has to gas up his private jets and pay his security, I mean we do. he's drifting tax payers
Yep! Like how R’s complain about the Federal Gov being a jobs program. Yeah, those jobs are in red areas. Military bases (with a few exceptions, IE San Diego) are more common in rural states. Now the jobs program that kept their voters employed suddenly gone R’s will be ok with it very quickly.
A straight up gangster racket. Walk in like you own the place, demand access and money, threaten anyone who resists, syphon all possible funds to line the boss's pockets. Truly, he's living the American dream
Elon should personally pay for all this damage he’s costing us. Plus, he should financially support all the people he’s firing/paying off til they get new jobs!
Keep in mind they're supposed to cease all activity per the TRO and can prove to the judge exactly who and what they are and what the clearances are and everything else that was laid out.
Actually he popped back up yesterday condemning Bannon for the Nazi salute he did 😂 so yeah he’s scared and abandoning his beliefs or so he would like us to think
Agreed, they do not have the skills of a cyber professional or a hacker be it white, grey, or black hat, definitely script kiddie vibes, not even sure they’re curious about how tech works
How is it even possible for them to spend this much money on a staff of less than 50. That would be a reasonable yearly budget for an office of 100 plus employees, and they've gone through it in just a few weeks
What a fucking grift. I mean of course. Trump is an ignorant, arrogant, crazy, greedy, reckless, dishonest criminal. His cabinet and "DOGE" are all reflections of him. I don't think it's too early to get the ball rolling for Articles of Impeachment. At all.
Add to that Trump's demand that Noem spend 200 million on ad campaigns thanking him. and 1/66th of all the savings they slashed from every corner of the Government has been spent by them.
A) Let us all remember DOGE is NOT a real Department.
B) Whenever we pronounce the acronym, it should rhyme with DODGY (because it is), and not LOGE.
C) They are ripping us off.
I don't doubt these expenses but am curious about the source of the figures. Are these expenses, along with $200M for ego ads & publicity stunts (Daytona, Super Bowl) actually being paid out?
And who is certifying their expenses so quickly? Time for finance to do an audit. Remember certifying officers are personally liable for the expenses they certify ..
How (HOW?!?!?!??) is this "saving money"? This is infuriating. I know it's never been about cost savings, but how can anyone see these numbers and literally believe firing federal workers who collectively will never make $40M is better than never creating DOGE. I'm so over this administration
So it's takes $40 million for Musk and his baby band of hacking misfits to jump into his shitbox Tesla car and drive over to the Treasury or whatever and plug their computers in to download data and then sell it. Ok, I got it.
Let’s not forget That’s their self reported costs. Since they are weaseling their way into every agency, they are also using dedicated agency resources too, which means their reported cost is lower than their actual total
Cost.
Protest is not about "sending a message." It is about creating a crisis that those in power cannot ignore. Every successful movement follows three essential principles:
Us. They "repurposed" an old Obama caucus - which I'm pretty sure is f*cking illegal, without congress to do that. @magaziner.house.gov How was BINGO with gramma?
Jen, a former FDIC examiner, was illegally fired from a non-taxpayer-funded position. Her termination letter falsely says she was fired, blacklisting her from private work. She has two kids—one with two brain surgeries. Listen to her story: https://youtu.be/zmTa2Iq-EeA?si=QUKAxl4AKWErj_Ek
Oh, that explains everything. I didn't realize it was about Dogecoin specifically, but yeah now it all adds up. I thought he was just weirdly obsessed with that particular meme. Jeeze...
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And showing weekly $10m of those services would tell the public *all* of their data is being exfiltrated from Gov IT systems.
B) Whenever we pronounce the acronym, it should rhyme with DODGY (because it is), and not LOGE.
C) They are ripping us off.
Seriously! Its him and a few teens destroying everything at a whim.
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2. Escalating Pressure
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Where are our taxes going?
Much efficiency.
What a disgrace!
I figure Musk won't like it:
"DOGE" is also the name of Musk's favorite crypto coin.
(I know it won't happen, but it would be nice to retire 'doge'.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DOGE-USD/
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