I mean nothing you learned is new. Banana in the tail pipe morons
DOGE is right about 1 thing: Gov overspending is RAMPANT
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How do you know?
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Give examples
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Can someone please post 12 examples of where the government exponentially wastes money?
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You do not run a country like a business….. and if anyone thinks so, throw whatever they gotta say about politics in the bushes
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Watch nobody responds to this with a quality answer
DOGE releases updated "wall of receipts" with more discrepancies
For the second time in two weeks, DOGE's "receipts" don't match its cost-cutting claims.
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DOGE releases updated "wall of receipts" with more discrepancies
By Dan Ruetenik
February 25, 2025 / 8:57 PM EST / CBS News
For the second time in two weeks, DOGE's "receipts" don't match its claims.
On Monday, the Department of Government Efficiency released another round of so-called "receipts" — or canceled contracts to show its cost cutting — and posted them on its "wall of receipts." As was the case with the first round, this set, too, contained inaccuracies.
Despite doubling the number of listed contracts, the updated itemized savings now total $9.6 billion, a sharp drop from the original $16.6 billion in savings DOGE itemized last week. At the same time, DOGE is now claiming total savings of $65 billion — far higher than the amount itemized, and an increase from its earlier claim of $55 billion, much of which has previously been called into question.
$65 billion is approximately 0.9% of the entire 2024 federal budget of $6.75 trillion.
DOGE's website claims this higher figure includes savings from contract and lease terminations, renegotiations, grant cancellations, layoffs and other miscellaneous reductions, but DOGE has not supplied documentation for the vast majority of the savings it claims.
In addition, $144.6 million is attributed to real estate savings, but DOGE has provided no supporting details beyond the dollar figure, agency and city, making independent verification difficult.
DOGE has not explained why it reduced the itemized total, but this is likely due to errors in the original reporting — many of which were first identified by news organizations including CBS News.
Initially, DOGE listed 1,127 receipts. That number has now grown to 2,299, though 34% of them report zero savings. The newly added receipts also contain apparent errors and instances of double, triple and even quadruple counting.
Many of the contracts included in the "wall of receipts" were unlikely to reach the amount of savings that DOGE is claiming. According to Michael LeJeune, a private consultant with an expertise in government contracts, many of these are specific types of agreements with "unfunded requirements and they rarely get used" to the full amount. He also says it appears that some of these unfunded or partly-funded contracts are being counted multiple times.
For example, there is a quadruple listing for a contract for DEI training and assessment services for the Department of Agriculture. The overall contract was $25 million, and four companies that provided these services drew funding from that single contract. DOGE, however, mistakenly listed each company as having a separate $25 million contract — wrongly claiming a total of $100 million in savings.
Other listings also raise questions, including:
- Three separate items list savings of $15 million each, but each item references the same contract, a blanket purchase agreement, under different contractors. A blanket purchase agreement is a standard government agreement that is often used for simple repetitive purchases. In this case, the Environmental Protection Agency contract was for "human resources consulting services." The Trump administration terminated the agreement on Jan. 25, referring to the contract as "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Enterprise Services Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs)." It is unclear how much of the contract's funding had already been spent.
- Two line items list $9,999,999 in savings for a Consumer Finance Protection Bureau contract cancellation, although both of those are for the same contract.
- In its first receipt release, DOGE listed another contract three times, claiming total savings of $1.965 billion. In reality, government records indicate that only $400 million had been spent over four years across 44 subcontracts, with minimal remaining expenditures expected. The latest DOGE update now lists one of these contracts as saving $0.35, another at zero savings, and a third at $18,171,886.
- An earlier posting incorrectly claimed $8 billion in savings from a canceled contract, due to an apparent typo in the original document. The actual contract was worth $8 million. The contracting company, D&G Solutions, confirmed to CBS News that this was an accounting error and that $3.8 million had already been spent. Despite this, DOGE continues to list $8 million in savings for the contract's cancellation, when the actual figure is $4.2 million.
- DOGE has also taken credit on X for the sale of a building in Washington, D.C., claiming it as savings. However, CBS News found that the building was actually auctioned off during the Biden administration for approximately $4 million.
The largest single new "receipt" was $1.9 billion for IT work for the IRS, but it's not clear if the cancellation was for the entire project or for a portion of the larger contract. CBS News has reached out to the contractor for more details and didn't immediately hear back. There were at least five other awardees eligible for this seven-year blanket purchase agreement.
In late 2020, the Brookings Institution published a study that noted that in the government workforce, contractors outnumbered federal staff — that year, there were about 2.2 federal workers for every 5 contractors (the study also notes that President Trump added about 2 million jobs to that workforce during his first term). Now, as DOGE zeroes out these contracts, tens of thousands of government employees and contractors have likely lost their jobs as a result.
I feel like if there was a single spelling error on a Democrat's policy plan Fox news would be running stories on it for months.
Elon seemed to have flat out altered and fabricated government records to retroactively "prove" his point and its being used to justify ruining thousands if not millions of lives.
Elon seemed to have flat out altered and fabricated government records to retroactively "prove" his point and its being used to justify ruining thousands if not millions of lives.
I think DOGE at this point is not interested in reality. At some point they legitimately thought there was easy waste to cut but found it out that it would be too haphazard to cut whole programs without doing some forensic accounting, something they never prepared themselves for. They've regretted the cuts every time it resulted in something like cutting nuclear engineers or affected employment in some deeply red state.
So now DOGE seems like it's divorced from reality. They just ask an AI to fabricate some programs and put a dollar amount on it and say it's been cut. Stupid shyt like "10 million for tampons in mens bathrooms" they can claim they cut and say it's a win. Except now even that is being identified as fraudulent because those forensic accountants who they didn't hire are working against their public receipts statements.
So now the next step is to double down and hope that their braindead supporters simply believe a big lie and hope they never see the retractions. DOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Mistake Called Out which they never admitted to botching. By next month they will be claiming they are saved the taxpayer 84 Billion by canceling contracts on cat gender reassignment surgeries in Guatemala. Probably throw in some AI slop images like you'd see in https://old.reddit.com/r/forwardsfromgrandma and make the press secretary and GOP senators to parrot it to their gullible fanbase through Tucker Carlson.
So now DOGE seems like it's divorced from reality. They just ask an AI to fabricate some programs and put a dollar amount on it and say it's been cut. Stupid shyt like "10 million for tampons in mens bathrooms" they can claim they cut and say it's a win. Except now even that is being identified as fraudulent because those forensic accountants who they didn't hire are working against their public receipts statements.
So now the next step is to double down and hope that their braindead supporters simply believe a big lie and hope they never see the retractions. DOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Mistake Called Out which they never admitted to botching. By next month they will be claiming they are saved the taxpayer 84 Billion by canceling contracts on cat gender reassignment surgeries in Guatemala. Probably throw in some AI slop images like you'd see in https://old.reddit.com/r/forwardsfromgrandma and make the press secretary and GOP senators to parrot it to their gullible fanbase through Tucker Carlson.
As a Fed worker this is all crazy to me. My agency is constantly on minimal staff and most are on temp status. Biden appointees came in and created mike term positions and hardware and software upgrades to modern standards. We got at more efficient and modernized under Obama and Biden. All the shyt talking about what they are going to do had been done at our agency post COVID. They still trying to make cuts for non business reasons. All you can do is laugh at this point until I remember we had to come into the office everyday during COVIDand work 60-80hour weeks. Many of our coworkers died from COVID. A lot of those hours were too fix the fraud and errors the contractors personally appointed by Orange. People hadthe nerve to call us lazy or taking money from the government when their asses would even go Grey a damn vaccine while people were out there dieing for them. 
the real reason we are in debt is historically low taxes.....
but nobody wants to talk about that....
if you look at the history of the country.... we are at the lowest tax rates we have ever had....
so why do you still see politicians complaining about the tax rate...?
thing is we raise taxes and same govt gonna trick it off even more lol
do you even read the budgets?
Or you just basing your opinion off what you see on social media and news articles?
nikka fukk you and your whole damn neighborhood
whomever tribe you fall back on remember this, its all white collared crime and the real victims are people with less. fuk them both
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The military and defense spending is an easy start. Subsidies for farmers is another. I'm at work, otherwise, I'd dive into this more.
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You get itemized receipts for where the taxpayers money goes.. Listen, this is a narrative from the Reagan era where he wanted the private sector to have more control. No one who is not behind the curtain can prove anything. There is some cronyism of course, but the departments that can push back against major corporations to protect the common citizen will be heavily targeted and eventually neutered. This is not about “efficiency” or lowering the national debt.
