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Too bad it's irrelevant because saving money was never anything but a red herring in the first place. The purpose of DOGE is to purge the Federal government of relatively-impartial career bureaucratic and install MAGA loyalist stooges in their place. "Efficiency" has fuck-all to do with it, except in the sense of efficiently inflicting their extremist agenda on us all.
Wake me up when the AP quits naively pretending Musk is acting in good faith and starts doing its damn job.
I came here to say what you said, but you said it better. I'll just add...
Wake me up when the AP quits naively pretending Musk is acting in good faith and starts doing its damn job.
You're going to be sleeping a long time.
Well wake me up when the bs is over ig
Just goes to show how effective it is to repeat a lie so much that people start to accept it as fact. By continually calling DOGE a "cost-cutting" effort, they've completely framed the conversation how they want.
It's also to perpetuate a lie that they saved so much money they can give the 1% huge tax cuts. Then when the bill comes due they'll have to cut Medicaid and ss.
Trust liberals to always treat fascists as if they’re acting in good faith, shutting down the left, and allowing fascism to grow.
The goal is not to save money. It's to consolidate power in the executive.
And just coincidentally kneecap every department and service that was investigating elon or trump
I kept asking this question because I am familiar with contracts, and it made no sense.
Even if all the funds aren't fully obligated, you still have to settle with the contractor if you terminate a contract for convenience. They likely have supplies or comtract related overhead you need to pay for, so the savings will be minimal... Oh and in a lot of cases it means you have paid a bunch of money for no benefit if the project gets scrapped.
you still have to settle with the contractor
Yeah, that's not a thing that Trump does.
It will actually be fascinating if he just tells Musk to turn off payment somehow. Who would do business with the government at that point?
Wouldn't that put the government in default? And sink the US Dollar?
The art of the deal
Dozens of them were for already-paid subscriptions to The Associated Press, Politico and other media services that the Republican administration said it would discontinue. Others were for research studies that have been awarded, training that has taken place, software that has been purchased and interns who have come and gone.
They turned off auto renew and deleted a few rows and columns from some spreadsheets. Top notch bussiness-ing there Elon.
Attacking the USA was always the goal.
Attacking the USA was always the goal.
Hopefully the citizens of the USA actually do something to stop it.
We asked for this. It’s not like there was a bait and switch, they’re doing exactly what they said they would do before being elected.
We asked for this.
Americans may have asked for this, but Greenland, Canada, Panama, Gaza and all the other countries that Trump is insulting, threatening and attacking didn't.
Get your shit together, America. Fix your house.
And in return for that the government's going to have a much harder time making new contracts because no one's going to trust that they're going to follow through. This is going to erode the value of the dollar in the long run. Inflation is going to skyrocket.
It can officially be called DOGI now.
Do the DMV! I want to go pay for my license and get out!
A quick DMV is why we have so many bad drivers.