Report Finds DOGE Lied About Tens Of Billions In Cuts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/06/elon-musk-doge-made-big-errors-claims-government-savings-gao-finds/

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ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 33 pts · 30d (3 replies)

The money savings wasn't the goal. The goal was to get Jr. Hackers into federal systems where god only knows what kinds of spyware were implanted...

I think when this administration ends, the next one is going to have a LOT of cleaning up to do...starting with a dump and reload systems from pre-trump backups...

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 30d

And that next admin will be so distracted by the clean up that Repussycunts swoop in and say "DEM DERE DEMONRATS AIN'T DOIN' NUTHIN FUR NOBODEH" and win the next election, plunging Amerikkka into Trump/Great Depression 3.0.

cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Backups? To consume storage just to sit there doing nothing? Cut that shit, more savings.

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 2 pts · 30d

LOL, good point.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 30d (1 reply)

DOGE...lied? A fake agency being run by not a real government employee (a guy known for making promises he breaks, year after year), and who employed idiotic teens and twenty-somethings with no relevant experience and zero wisdom?

Where are my pearls, I needs to clutch them....

Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d

Hes also an illegal immigrant and nepo baby and wannabe pedophile (but too lame for them to accept him)

bring-april-plenty@kbin.earth · 15 pts · 30d (1 reply)

And there will be consequences now, right? right?

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 27d

Not a bloody chance

stumu415@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 30d (2 replies)

Not to mention how many thousands of people died because of scraping USAID.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 30d

The first year maybe 700,000. Estimates are around 14-22 million by 2030.

And the budget wasn't made smaller (can't remember how much he asked to increase it by, more than a trillion).. So they just said fuck all those people and shifted the money into nothingness.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 27d

But which people? In the eyes of MAGA, they count for less if they're poor, unemployed, disabled, democrat, gay, transgender, or non-caucasian

Death__BySnuSnu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d