US EditionCost of DOGE cuts appear to wipe out most of agency’s reported ‘savings’
- Elon Musk's initiative through the Department of Government Efficiency aimed to save $2 trillion but has been revised to $150 billion, raising concerns about overstated actual savings due to hidden costs.
- Around 260,000 federal employees have left their jobs since President Trump returned to office, potentially reducing tax revenue significantly, according to Yale's Budget Lab.
- Max Stier of the Partnership for Public Service expressed that the approaches adopted by DOGE could create new expenses and harm government productivity, ultimately costing taxpayers more.
- Experts have pointed out that fewer IRS employees may lead to billions in lost tax revenue, complicating the notion of DOGE's savings.
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'Tremendous costs': DOGE's blunders on track to cancel out any savings from its cuts
Tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force was originally promised to find $2 trillion in savings to the taxpayers — a figure swiftly revised to $1 trillion, and then more recently to a far more modest $150 billion. The problem, wrote Zeeshan Aleem for MSNBC, ...
Elon Musk "inflates his exploits" and records "phantom expenses" to make up his balance sheet at the Doge
There is no sufficient evidence to suggest that the government efficiency department led by Elon Musk, among others, is achieving its public debt reduction objectives. ...
Public sours on Musk’s role, is skeptical that government is cutting waste
Americans are increasingly critical of Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration, with a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll finding negative reactions to some cuts made by his U.S. DOGE Service and skeptical that the government is cutting waste and fraud.
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