US Govt. Spending HAS INCREASED despite the DOGE Cutting actions….

The US Governmet ‘System’ ALWAYS WINS…..

Elon Musk isn’t gonna stop the US Congress on its actions….

Nor is on Donald Trump….

We ARE talking about a country of 330 Million people…..

Ran by 3 Million. on the Federal level….

The DOGE ‘cuts’ have turned out to be 5% or even LESS of they they tried to sell to Trump and the public….

(They HAVE involved tens of thousands of Federal Workers and Billions in Cuts to programs that Congress voted to fund)

 

DOGE has cut a wide swath — shrinking the federal workforce to 1960s levels. But its impact in other ways has been more narrow than both supporters and detractors might realize. Government spending is actually increasing amid all the DOGE cuts, with notable exceptions including foreign aid and education.

“In a sense, it’s more successful than you might have thought, in a sense it’s less,” said an administration official close to DOGE who was granted anonymity to speak freely.

Nearly a quarter of a million workers have or are expected to leave their federal jobs. That includes more than 112,000 federal workers who have opted into the deferred resignation program, according to a POLITICO analysis of previous reporting and conversations with administration officials. It also includes some 121,000 workers across agencies who have been fired, according to a CNN analysis.

DOGE has hollowed out or shut down 11 federal agencies and says it has terminated more than 8,500 contracts and 10,000 grants. It has wiped out foreign aid and volunteerism in the U.S., slashed education spending and made sweeping changes to the way the government makes procurements, hires contractors and shares data.

“In terms of downsizing, it’s unprecedented for sure,” said Richard Stern, a federal budget expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. He noted that other government makeovers, like the New Deal and Great Society, had been larger — but that DOGE was unique because it is subtractive, not additive.

DOGE, after promising $2 trillion in savings, now says it has saved the government $160 billion. But even these reported savings, so far, have not led to any meaningful decline in total government spending this year, according to the nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model, which tracks weekly Treasury data.

In fact, the government has actually been spending more compared to this time last year, the model found.

Total spending rose by 6.3 percent, or $156 billion since Trump took office, compared to the first four months of 2024, said Kent Smetters, a Wharton professor who directs the model. Even when accounting for inflation, the federal government has still added $81.2 billion more spending to its books compared to the same period last year, he added….

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In Washington, Musk’s clashes with Cabinet members including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent became public. Others like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed their hesitation at deep personnel cuts in private…

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Note….

I pointed out here in an earlier post ….

History has it that Agency and Departement hneads of the Federal government once in office?

Tend to work to secure their own’ shops’ against intruders from the political types in the White House…

This goes for Democrats and Republicans ….

And THAT HAS been the case against Musk ands his DOGE people…

With Musk leaving Trump’s side?

One could expect that the DOGE people will ne marginalized and ultimately pushed aside…

And the Federal spending FOR Government WILL continue to GROW….