After two month’s…
The shock wears off and the Media (which I knock here) HAS steped up efforts to dig into the Musk operation and expose what it does and does NOT do….
A Federal judge is ALSO making inquires do to a law suit from 14 states…
Careful checking by the media has pointed out that DOGE cuts are much smaller then they are advertising….
This is about Government services, contracts and above ALL?….Jobs….
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has repeatedly posted error-filled data that inflated its success at saving taxpayer money. But after a series of news reports called out those mistakes, the group changed its tactics.
It began making its new mistakes harder to find, leaving its already secretive activities even less transparent than before.
Mr. Musk’s group posted a new set of claims to its website on March 2, saying it had saved taxpayers $10 billion by terminating 3,489 federal grants.
Previously when it posted new claims, DOGE, Mr. Musk’s government-restructuring effort, had included identifying details about the cuts it took credit for. That allowed the public to fact-check its work by comparing its figures with federal spending databases and talking to the groups whose funding had been cut.
This time, it did not include those details. A White House official said that was done for security purposes.
The result was that the group’s new claims appeared impossible to check….
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The group posted a claim that confused billions with millions, triple-counted the savings from a single contract and claimed credit for canceling contracts that had ended under President George W. Bush.
DOGE deleted some of its largest claims about the savings from canceled contracts after news reports pointed out that they were wrong…..
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