DOGE Just Keeps Deleting Its ‘Savings’

You would think the Department of Government Efficiency, the agency that is supposedly auditing the entirety of the federal government for “waste,” would know to keep its receipts in order. And yet, for some reason, the agency has repeatedly had to pull examples of so-called savings down after it was revealed that it actually didn’t save taxpayers anything. The latest instance of this savings bait and switch came over the weekend, when the agency led by Elon Musk—but not really, but like let’s be real, it is—changed or removed more than 40% of the more than 1,000 contracts it claimed to have canceled over the previous week, according to the New York Times. Included in that overnight alteration was the outright removal of five of the seven largest contracts it claimed to have cut. To give the DOGE crew, which includes a bunch of edgelords who have to use a fake ID to get a beer, some credit, this actually represents an improvement over its previous record. The week prior, it had to re ... Read full article.