Elon Musk Comes Up Short

‘One of the biggest failures in political history’: As Elon Musk steps back the underperformance of DOGE becomes clear

Elon Musk is practically out of the door after three months of spectacularly failing to curb federal spending and save the government some money. Now that his tenure at the head of DOGE looks set to end it’s become ever so clear just how bad a job the tech billionaire did. At the start of Donald Trump’s second term Musk and his department were making some awfully bold claims regarding how much money they were intending to save. DOGE was previous…

Elon Musk Accidentally Wasted a Vast Sum of Taxpayer Money Due to His Staggering Incompetence

Billionaire Elon Musk's effort to rid the government of purported "waste and fraud" has been a dismal failure. With his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, the richest man in the world has done little to actually save money, cutting his ambitions from an originally promised $2 trillion in savings to a mere $150 billion earlier this month — a figure that remains highly untrustworthy. Worse yet, Musk's DOGE could actually be costing the…

Musk, DOGE Could Spend $135B to Save $150B: Analysts

Elon Musk originally said the Department of Government Efficiency could save taxpayers $2 trillion. He later downgraded that to $1 trillion. His most recent estimate is down even further, to $150 billion. But according to the experts on federal workers who spoke to the New York Times , the cost of...

Elon Musk Comes Up Short

“President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings, maybe even a ‘DOGE dividend’ check in their mailboxes, when the Department of Government Efficiency was let loose on the federal government. Now, as he prepares to step back from his presidential assignment to cut bureaucratic fat, Mr. Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only $150 billion,” the New York Times reports. “That is about 15 percen…

“Elon Musk leaves legacy of self-destruction at DOGE”

Axios: Elon Musk arrived in Washington as the most powerful political outsider ever, brimming with Silicon Valley swagger and bipartisan buy-in for his goal of streamlining the federal government. He’s leaving with his reputation wounded, relationships severed, companies in… Continue reading The post “Elon Musk leaves legacy of self-destruction at DOGE” appeared first on Election Law Blog.