Summary
DOGE initially claimed an $8 billion ICE contract reduction, but the actual figure was 1,000 times less at $8 million.
Despite correcting the ICE figure, DOGE did not adjust its overall $55 billion savings estimate, which lacks clear justification.
The ICE error wasn’t the only issue. CBS News found DOGE had triple-counted a $654.99 million savings on a single contract, overstating savings by as much as $1.96 billion.
Critics argue the errors remain unaddressed because “the propaganda of the numbers is important to them.”
Yes
Just look at all the savings!
Worse than that, I suspect they don’t care much if people notice.
Yes! Next question
Elon: The SSA database doesn’t deduplicate.
DOGE: counts something three times
doge deduplicates, but doesn’t detriplicate
The problem is that idiots are eating up these numbers. I have a few low information coworkers who just hear the stories about DOGE saving all this tax money on “wasteful” programs on right wing news outlets and are convinced, full stop. Now, they parrot all the information they hear and are “glad that someone is finally doing something about government waste”. They don’t look into whether or not the numbers that Elon Musk spits out are truthful, let alone whether or not those tax dollars were actually having a positive impact.
We live in a post-truth society, and the Republicans have been abusing the people’s willingness to give authority figured the benefit of the doubt. No amount of untruth can ruin their credibility, because all it takes is a tiny kernel of truth to make it seem like it wasn’t actually a lie.
Bro it annoys me to no end that people genuinely believe that the government never does audits. Like all this DOGE bullshit was already an ongoing part of the federal bureaucracy in place to ensure funds aren’t misappropriated.
Do people think there was zero accountability for the money??!?!!
DOGE isn’t saving shit it’s a smokescreen to shift money around and enrich the unscrupulous assholes.
Had one come up to me while I was working with chemicals excited about his doge check… then complained about owing taxes. Had to bite my tongue so hard not to tell him gullible was written on the ceiling
Yes numbers are just made up.
Yes everyone notices.
Laws don’t apply to the rich.
Putin, Trump and musk have screwed America over. America is done.
Plot twist: the new federal budget is just a google sheet
I bet the Trumpers can’t wait until they get their imaginary checks for their share of the imaginary DOGE savings.
If I may suggest a more concise headline:
“Is Musk just making up- YES!!”
He has profited from it more than any person on the planet. Literally. The ones who are probably richer like Putin or Saudi royals at least stole something of value from their people.
He’s in the right administration for it. Basically straight out of a trump playbook, if you can call narcissism a playbook.
Probably. He’s only had access for a few weeks. There’s no way for him to know.
Of course they are making up numbers. Noticing is irrelevant.
In both russian regimes you just declare what the truth is and everyone either agrees or is the enemy.
Why is this even a question?
Headline should read: “Musk, Trump, spouting BS numbers about budget, immigration, and literally everything else they do.”
Change the date, you can run the same story every day.
No, their base will pick up whatever they say and run with it.
Musk has been just making up numbers his entire life.
Full self driving will be generally available next year, every year for the better part of a decade. Oh, and humans will be on Mars by the end of 2025. And don’t forget Starship’s incredible
300,150, 50 ton payload.“Why should we build high speed rail when I can imagine something faster that’s impossible to build?”
