Mar. 31 at 2:40 PM
$MDAI Jw, you fall for hyperbolic claims; I don't.
DOGE did produce some real cuts, especially contract and lease cancellations, but a lot of the savings math appears to have treated contract ceilings or hypothetical future spending as if it were guaranteed savings. Politico’s later analysis found DOGE saved less than 5 percent of its claimed savings from nearly 10,100 contract cancellations, which lines up with the broader pattern of overstatement.
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So if your question is “Did DOGE save money at all?” the answer is yes. If your question is “Did DOGE save the huge amounts it claimed?” the answer is no, not convincingly, and the verified amount appears to be far smaller than the public rhetoric suggested.
DOGE was a hatchet where a scalpel was called for. Many rehires ensued.
How we doing, jobs, inflation, chaos?
