Elon Musk Scales Back DOGE Savings Target by 85%, Facing Conservative Backlash

Letter: Musk is costly to America

The Department of Government Efficiency brags it has saved $130 billion (a figure that has been fact-checked as inaccurate). I suggest they save a real $5.9 billion by cutting the National Security Space Launch award just given to Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. Read more...

Reality Gets In Way of Elon Musk's Latest Misguided Boast

Steve Benen, MSNBC Elon Musk lowered his spending cut targets from $2 trillion to $1 trillion to $150 billion — and even that total is no longer credible.

DOGE: Have we passed 'peak Musk'?

"Money can buy a lot of things," said Allison Morrow in CNN.com. The $288 million Elon Musk spent to help elect President Trump and other GOP candidates, for instance, secured him a job heading the previously nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency, with apparent authority to fire 280,000 federal workers and shutter entire agencies. But money can't buy all things, as shown by the "parade of humiliations" Musk suffered in the space of 24 …

Musk tells Trump DOGE is likely to fall way short of $1 trillion savings goal

WASHINGTON -- Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to be falling significantly short of the promised savings he touted over recent months. According to the New York Times, Musk admitted during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump last week that DOGE is likely to end up reporting a savings of $150 billion for next year’s fiscal budget.

Will DOGE actually accomplish anything? - Washington Examiner

Maybe the real Department of Government Efficiency is the friends we made along the way. Elon Musk’s DOGE came as a welcomed surprise to fiscal conservatives and everyone else who cares about the economic future of the nation. Even the most casual observers of the actions of the federal government understand that the books are rife with waste, fraud, and abuse, and since neither party has attempted to reduce spending in almost three decades mean…

85% of savings less than expected, the re-evaluation of its share by the billionaire could cost those who expected the "dividends".