It’s a relatively small lie but an important one because it’s coming not from Trump whom everyone know is a pathological liar. This one’s from Russ Vought someone who is taken quite seriously even now by the MSM and political establishment”
They just make stuff up and the cult gobbles it up and swallows it.
Here’s a piece about DOGE’s lies, errors and disinformation. It’s already legion and they’re just getting started. From the left wing propaganda outfit known as the Wall St Journal (gift link):
The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency touts cuts of $55 billion in federal spending, often citing canceled DEI and climate contracts. However, a Wall Street Journal analysis of government contract data showed a much different picture: “Woke” cuts were a tiny fraction of the total, and many claims of savings were overstated.
While DOGE hasn’t offered details about all of the stated savings, it has posted a list of more than 1,100 canceled contracts to its website. As of Friday, it said the savings from these contracts amounted to about $7 billion.
The Journal analysis projects the actual savings could be closer to $2.6 billion over the next year if spending levels remained constant—and about 2% of the funds would have gone to contracts related to DEI.
Research-focused agencies were among the top targets for cuts, including the Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, where DOGE terminated contracts costing the government more than $900 million last year.
DOGE terminated more than 60 Health and Human Services contracts including a clinical evaluation of an Alzheimer’s and traumatic brain injury drug and a study of smokers with chronic lung disease. DOGE described these as “administrative expenses.”
An administration official said many contracts were canceled for waste, fraud and abuse. They added that DOGE’s estimations of its savings are conservative and that no funds for Alzheimer’s were canceled.
Many of the Education Department’s canceled contracts funded research on college costs, student career paths and early childhood development. DOGE said one $1.4 million contract funded “mailing and clerical operations.” The contract was used to mail surveys to respondents participating in studies and was nearly complete when canceled, creating no savings for terminating it.
There’s much more. Here’s the NY Times on DOGE’s ballyhooed “wall of receipts” (gift link)
President Trump has been celebrating the published savings, even musing about a proposal to mail checks to all Americans to reimburse them with a “DOGE dividend.”
But the math that could back up those checks is marred with accounting errors, incorrect assumptions, outdated data and other mistakes, according to a New York Times analysis of all the contracts listed. While the DOGE team has surely cut some number of billions of dollars, its slapdash accounting adds to a pattern of recklessness by the group, which has recently gained access to sensitive government payment systems.
Some contracts the group claims credit for were double- or triple-counted. Another initially contained an error that inflated the totals by billions of dollars. In at least one instance, the group claimed an entire contract had been canceled when only part of the work had been halted. In others, contracts the group said it had closed were actually ended under the Biden administration.
Do read them both. Let’s just say that if you turned in work like that anyplace that wasn’t run by Donald Trump and Elon Musk you’d be fired on the spot. To think that the sloppy little boys who produced that garbage are given license to fire professional public servants on a whim is infuriating.
I know Republicans are thrilled to see someone destroying the government since they have always said they hated it. Did they want to destroy the country right along with it? I guess they did because they know very well this is a shitshow of shitshows and they’re just going along for the ride enjoying the pain and suffering they are causing their fellow Americans.
If nothing else, I do feel vindicated in my intense, decades-long loathing of every elected official in that sick and twisted organization.