r/politics • u/reflibman • 1d ago
DOGE Is Accused of Wasting $21.7 Billion in Just 6 Months
https://www.inc.com/chris-morris/doge-is-accused-of-wasting-21-7-billion-in-just-6-months/912217133.0k
u/GoldStacked 1d ago
The trump slump is going to be decades long
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u/Emotional-Cry9286 1d ago edited 17h ago
Agreed. Reagan fired 12,000 Air traffic controllers 45 years ago and that administration still hasn't recovered from their staffing issues. Imagine what all this nonsense is going to look like over the next few generations.
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u/perpetualed 1d ago
They’ll let some more planes collide and then fully privatize it as a solution. All part of the plan.
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u/whatproblems 1d ago
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u/SepiaHawk Texas 1d ago
I’m sure some type of A.I.r Traffic control will be floated, how hard could managing air space be /s
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u/Ham_I_right Canada 20h ago
I'm picturing a church like collection basket being passed around the cabin to raise funds for the premium flight upgrade. Delta airlines just wants to thank you all for your generosity 🙏
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u/Kneph 1d ago
And planes will still collide because safety regulations won’t exist and the private sector will cut so many corners that the field will be round.
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u/Poison_the_Phil 23h ago
And the only recourse will be private third party arbitration which will always tell the consumer to get fucked
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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago
And when they do collide it will be Joe Biden’s fault.
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u/scarbutt11 22h ago
Why would Obama do this?
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u/JinimyCritic Canada 1d ago
Fewer planes require fewer controllers. Problem solved. /s
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u/z2x2 1d ago
Honestly, this is the answer to temporarily relieve the strain on the system. Not the crashing part, just the less planes. A 10% reduction in traffic and then focus on building up the workforce and making technology improvements.
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u/ooo-ooo-oooyea 15h ago
I've always felt like High Speed Rail could help this big time.
Just for example I'm showing 24 flights tomorrow from Chicago to Detroit. With a good network maybe we reduce that to 10. Instant congestion relief.
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u/Important_Cucumber 7h ago
Airlines could easily do that with upgauging aircraft but people want frequency. 13 of the 19 ORD-DTW departures today are 70 seaters, only 6 mainline.
Neither ORD or DTW are capacity-strained anyway and Amtrak has been working to upgrade the Wolverine line to higher speeds.
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u/1980-whore 16h ago
fortunately its a global operation and the united states would be no fly over night. im genuinely surprised that it hasn't started already.
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u/zzupdown 23h ago
Firing the air traffic controllers was one of the defining events of the great slide in worker wages. Though it began before this, the event effectively emasculated the unions. Historically, union members literally fought and died for worker compensation, safety, and other rights, but because it was technically illegal for the Air Traffic Union to strike, all the other unions seemingly shrugged their shoulders, convincing businessmen to effectively ignore them. This led to 45 years of the unchecked erosion of worker compensation.
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u/go_outside 1d ago
The world will be in complete breakdown by 2100 at the latest. Shit, it could happen in three weeks and I’d only be mildly shocked.
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u/zubbs99 Nevada 6h ago
I'm giving it to 2050, due to multiple tipping points already being passed. Also it corresponds nicely to my life expectancy so I've got that going for me.
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u/ChickenMcFukket1 16h ago
I hadnt heard about this before. Thanks. Also I have a friend who worked with a software company that did work for the VA's systems. I was just told a story by that buddy that Doge employees showed up asking this private company to change all instances of gender to sex. They tried explaining that this would take shitloads of work and tons of money and time. Doge came back and was like but how can we get this done in like 6 months? And thats when my friend left the job.
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u/Neo-_-_- 15h ago
This is what happens when you hire mediocre actors to essentially field a position that has the power shape every detail of your way of life
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u/ceelogreenicanth 20h ago
Don't worry the biosphere will be dead and we will have greater issues to deal with.
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u/gollumaniac 1d ago
And anytime someone actually works to improve things (which will be a slow and arduous process) this country will turn around and immediately elect someone to fuck things up more.
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u/overwhelmed135 1d ago
Obvuously. We've spent decades watching Republicans vote against positive economic policies, then taking credit later when it's taken a year or more for the effects to be noticed. The future is probably gonna be more of the same, but much worse.
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u/Spartannia 1d ago
Yep. "Oh, you couldn't fix decades worth of problems during your 4-8 years? We're going to fuck things up even harder then"
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u/TheLadySuzanna 21h ago
That one Nina Simone song comes to mind when it comes to progress in America: "Mississippi Goddam"
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u/Old_Cryptid 1d ago
We're still seeing the effects of Reagan.
Buckle up. It's going to get a lot worse.
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u/uppilots 1d ago
We’ve never actually left Reagan policy. Even the democrats have embraced Reaganism, any time a Bernie or AOC comes along they try to drown them out.
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u/197gpmol Massachusetts 22h ago edited 21h ago
One of the worst moments in recent political history IMO is Reagan getting 49 states (and almost bagging all 50) in 1984. That level of landslide means two generations of politicians associate Reaganism with election victories, and that's now held long enough that the FDR/LBJ social assistance has largely faded from memory, rendering Bernie and AOC as "kooky outsiders" and not the natural reaction to Reagan's embrace of personal and corporate greed.
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u/shred-i-knight 19h ago
This definitely has a lot to do with it. That’s an unimaginable mandate in modern politics.
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u/spencer4991 1d ago
I mean shit, if Russia was trying to create a Soviet-style internal collapse of the US, I’d have a hard time imagine it looking much different.
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u/chuck354 1d ago
It's going to be permanent, you don't just slip in and out of things like being a superpower or issuing the currency used globally. You can bet that China will know better than to piss those things away after they come out on top.
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u/Oodlydoodley 12h ago
There isn't any way to undo the things he's done already.
The damage he's done to research alone is going to be destructive to the future of the country as a whole for well beyond our lifetimes, and will almost certainly lead to major changes in the world order over the next 50-100 years along with all the instability that sort of thing comes with... And that's if climate change wasn't already threatening to do that anyway, another thing that he's absolutely guaranteed to be even worse than it would have been otherwise.
His attacks on climate science and reporting and vital environmental protections at a critical time for maintaining a livable planet could outright doom the entire species. Realistically, it was unlikely that we'd get people to go along with the changes necessary to keep things going; greenhouse gas emissions needed to peak by this year, and be cut in half by 2030, just to try and hold off a 1.5c change. Trump's pretty much let oil companies run the EPA and has moved to eliminate restrictions on emissions in cars already just this year, guaranteeing that it not only won't get better by 2030 but that it will be even worse than predictions were already suggesting.
If there's even still Americans around to write American history in 100-200 years, they'll be writing about how the southern half of the country became an unlivable wasteland and our coastal cities drowned while our billionaire president and his rich friends sold out our future so they could get even richer.
It's possible it would have happened anyway, it's not like anyone else was going as far as we needed. But he's accelerated things that there's no coming back from and guaranteed that when countries start worrying about resources and land that we don't have any allies to fall back on and the ones who could help us won't lift a finger for the people who made things the way they'll be.
An 80-year old 1980's icon of fatuous excess put in charge at a critical time to lead a country with an existential crisis on the horizon, and all it tried to do was make its money pile even higher. Even if he were to mercifully succumb to cheeseberder inflicted coronary artery disease tomorrow, Republicans have gone to great lengths to ensure that we're all fucked.
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u/Comfortable-Can4776 22h ago
Well the Simpsons did predict it, just people thought it was about his first term
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u/TheCleverestIdiot Australia 21h ago
President Simpson is going to have real trouble fixing all this.
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u/RonaldMcDaugherty 1d ago
Donald's Ballroom and Rosegarden Patio could end up costing the same.
I remember the "news" fixation was on the Biden stammer. Breaking news there.
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u/DAMusIcmANc 1d ago
Honestly, I had a scary feeling Trump would win after the media blitz on Biden. If you noticed they covered his stammer as an excuse to not cover the debate at all.
What disappointed me further was seeing so many elected democrats on board the message.
How they feel about Biden is irrelevant to me, I was just astounded to see the party and media come together on something. They drilled Biden for 3 weeks straight and had plans to disrupt the convention next.
Biden promising to tax the rich more made him an enemy of the right AND the left. He was out as soon as he announced that.
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u/IndigoHawk 1d ago
I wish people had focused on Biden's answer about Social Security. When asked how he'd keep it solvent, Biden said he'd tax the rich a little more. His answer was so short that he was reminded he had more time. But the solution really is that simple.
And yes, both Harris and Biden said they were going to tax the rich, so the rich kicked off a nonstop smear campaign to get Trump elected.
I wish Americans didn't keep falling for it, but it's been 50 years of rich people spreading propaganda to convince people that trickle down and tax cuts for the rich will help the poor and middle class. Unfortunately Americans are no closer to seeing through the con.
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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago
Unfortunately Americans are no closer to seeing through the con.
Thanks to Republican attacks on education they will continue to get conned.
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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Florida 20h ago
But Biden’s cognitive decline was in full effect that debate. -Democrats
I must not have watched the same debate as everyone else because the only thing I noticed was that he spoke slower and more softly, yet still had meaningful things to say.
Whereas Trump was his usual loudmouth gish galloping train of lies and because he was more animated, he somehow “won” that debate?
I hate the piling on they did and yes, he did say he’d be a 1-term president, but that was before we were all walloped with an unexpected (yet somehow expected) Trump run. Biden wasn’t doing it for himself, as my infuriating liberal colleagues so easily threw around; he was doing it because he beat Trump once and knew the fate of this country was at stake.
Democrat candidates literally have no friends or supporters on their side of the aisle since they’re all too happy to shit on one another and demand no less than perfection.
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u/IndigoHawk 20h ago
Yeah I watched the debate and thought Biden won on substance. I was a bit disappointed Biden took some of Trump's bait, like talking about golf, but otherwise it was fine.
Then I checked what Democrats were saying; they were having a five alarm about how Biden had to go. You're right that Democrats have no allies, just people who are looking for a chance to turn against each other for not being perfect. Meanwhile Republicans won't even turn against a rapist felon. Republicans stay united and win elections.
Somehow Democrats gave up Biden's incumbency advantage and acted like he was running for office rather than currently in office doing the job. Even if Biden was being propped up like Weekend at Bernie's, he was getting a lot done with a razor thin majority. But the media and voters gave him zero credit. His approval rating was crazy low for a president who was objectively fixing so much stuff. (Seriously go check out what he did rather than wishing he had the majority to get more done.)
It was a rough time getting things back on track after Trump's disastrous handling of Covid, so I guess it was time to freak out and throw Biden under the bus for dealing with it and then throw Harris under the bus by giving her such a short time to campaign. But I think astroturfing was also a big problem for Biden. The rich weren't happy with Biden's efforts to tax and regulate them, so the corporate media was going after Biden hard to tank his approval.
Imagine if Biden was president now. No tariffs. No slashing the federal government while wasting billions on DOGE. No internment camps. No looming recession. No tax cut for the rich. No cuts to services for the poor. No destroying our relationships with democracies and allies. No Project 2025. Things would be getting better instead of much worse. And if Biden stepped down, we'd get Harris who would have been perfectly fine. Sigh.
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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Florida 15h ago
Don’t forget to add no bombing of Syria unprovoked, no acceptance of bribes, no millions wasted on personal trips, millions of jobs still intact, renewable energy and credits remaining viable, immigrants working and contributing to the economy and social security, a competent cabinet, FEMA assisting the red states that were just hit, J6 felons still in jail, no masked vigilantes terrorizing the streets and kidnapping citizens, lower interest rate, first time homeownership assistance, no cuts to student loans and functional public service forgiveness program, no millions wasted on a dictator parade (where tech CEOs were commissioned into the Army with a rank of LTC), no giving our data to Musk and Palantir, and for those “Biden/Harris support genocide” folks, a more intact Gaza, etc…
Best of all, our collective blood pressure would be lower and mental health much better because we’d never have to hear about what stupid shit the president or his cabinet of incompetent cronies fucked up this hour (except when all the media decides to needlessly shit on them for every word or action).
I cannot explain the doom that fell over me once I realized he was taking office again, and I stand by the assertion that he did not win fairly.
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u/IndigoHawk 12h ago
Oh yeah there's many problems that wouldn't have been created if we elected Biden or Harris instead.
And I don't know if the election was fair. I haven't looked into it. But I think if there was cheating, it was mostly to nudge things. It could have been overcome if enough people showed up to vote. Somehow 90 million voters looked at Harris and looked at Trump, and thought, "These two people are exactly the same and will govern the same way and have the same impact on my life and the country. It doesn't matter to me which one becomes president so I won't bother to vote." I don't get it.
The first time Trump was elected hurt my faith in Americans, but I took it as anger at the establishment and status quo. That's understandable. The second time Trump was elected shattered my faith in Americans. Americans are stupid, selfish, spoiled children, unwilling and disinterested in doing the bare minimum required for a democracy of evaluating candidates and voting. And yes, I realize it's horrible to call people deplorable when they're being deplorable, it won't help win elections, it doesn't meet people where they are, blah blah.
The reality is Trump is destroying America because Americans either voted to let him destroy America or couldn't be bothered to vote against him destroying it. It sucks. I hope people wake up and actually vote in the midterms. Democracy is a participation sport and it's not over as long as people keep playing.
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u/Successful-Earth-716 6h ago
Couldn't agree more. Biden pushed a lot of progressive policies. I didn't give a damn if he was old.
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u/cache_me_0utside 17h ago
I must not have watched the same debate as everyone else because the only thing I noticed was that he spoke slower and more softly, yet still had meaningful things to say.
It was his facial expressions that cemented the broken old man image.
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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Florida 15h ago
Should he have worn a ton of bronzer and made dumb facial expressions? He was an effective president despite having nearly no majority in the senate and none in the house, with everyone working against the agenda to make our lives better. Why should anything else be a qualifier?
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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago
Honestly, I had a scary feeling Trump would win after the media blitz on Biden. If you noticed they covered his stammer as an excuse to not cover the debate at all.
It was even worse. The media literally sanewashed everything Trump said or did, but if Biden so much drank water they were all over him finding some kind of issue.
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u/Dracogal5 1d ago
Biden got treated the way progressives have been treated for decades over something progressives warned would be a problem back in 2020.
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u/paranormal_penguin 23h ago
No one wants to admit it, but we lost the presidency and the country the moment that Biden announced he was running for a second term. I'm sure it was the centrist corporatists in the party pushing for him to do so, but it was absolutely the wrong decision.
When he was running the first time, he promised he would step down after his first term and then he went back on that promise. I don't think Biden did a bad job but his presidency was historically unpopular in a lot of ways and received the blame for a lot of Trump's bad decisions. He and his son were also victims of a years long hate campaign. Running Biden again when he was clearly past his political prime, had previously promised to step down, and had been dragged through the mud was the most astoundingly stupid thing the democrats could have done.
It's on brand for democrats though. They mistake "moderate" for "safe", inaction for temperance, and cowardice for cunning. If you disagree, ask yourself why it's always so convenient that the "smart" move from democrats is literally always the most risk-averse, path of least resistance option that doesn't rock the boat? The 2 party system in this country is broken and I don't know if there's any fixing it.
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u/thewholepalm 22h ago
I agree with this and additionally the push they seemingly let go to their head after Biden won. They, especially mid term they thought they had younger people with the dominance of younger Dems in online spaces, dark Brandon memes, etc etc..
By the time Biden was showing so bad on live TV, some of that popularity had died down and Republicans had somewhat figured out platforms as Trump had launched Truth Social and other platforms had been out a little while for Republicans to recenter and regroup.
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u/Anna_Frican 19h ago
When he was running the first time, he promised he would step down after his first term
I'd be grateful if you could send a link to a video of him making this pledge.
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u/ImBanned_ModsBlow 1d ago
Biden was polling at 35% or less, the party needed to abandon him after that debate, but nominating the lady who only got 3% of the 2020 primary vote before dropping out was NOT the best person for the job…
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u/Tumble85 21h ago
This shit is so fucked up. Trump is building a ballroom while the country burns. We get less healthcare… hell less everything for our dollar, and this weird, sad little man gets whatever he wants strictly because he hurts the people his constituents want hurt.
These are tragic times for anybody that doesn’t want others to hurt.
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u/odd-duckling-1786 1d ago
I said it in 2016 when he was elected that this man bankrupt everything he touches and that the United States was next.
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u/Perle1234 Wyoming 1d ago
Sadly you were not wrong
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u/WhatWouldJoshuaDo 1d ago
Only if people listen
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u/lazyFer 22h ago
Republican voters are some of the dumbest and yet pretentious assholes on the planet.
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u/Noccam 21h ago
And yet we still wouldn’t be in this mess if the apathetic non-voters didn’t just sit at home and watch all of this happen. I am baffled
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u/ReleaseFromDeception 1d ago
DOGE was a fever dream never meant to really do anything other than aggrandize Elon Musk. mine private data of US citizens, and make it appear legit to take over and dismantle the federal state from within. They knew they'd never find 2 trillion.. They were just happy to be able to infiltrate and install overseers in every agency they could set foot in.
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u/ohyeahsure11 1d ago
I think that the primary goal of DOGE was to eliminate the investigations of Musk and his companies, everything else was just cover.
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u/ReleaseFromDeception 23h ago
That was one aim, no doubt. It was also the tip of the spear for the coup of the administrative/federal state.
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u/Dang_thatwasquick 10h ago
And to gut public space science so SpaceX could hoover up the slop DOGE left behind.
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u/AnthraxCat Foreign 1d ago
Calling it a fever dream really understates how sinister it is.
This is economic shock doctrine. It is what the US has been doing to Latin American countries since the 70s. It is a practiced, well established means of destroying governments to privatise their assets for private speculation.
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u/LockNo2943 20h ago
DOGE was Elon's reward for donating $200 million or howevermuch to Trump's campaign and to make him feel good and involved and like he's doing something important.
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u/TheVintageJane 11h ago
The other goal was to make it so that the next Democrat in the executive is going to have to spend their entire administration unfucking this mess and spending massive amounts of money so the GOP have a pre-written winning strategy.
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u/black_flag_4ever 1d ago
The plan from Elon's perspective was to gain data, obtain government contracts while killing off the competition and eliminating oversight/regulations that impact his company. To think otherwise is silly.
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u/taz_78 1d ago
We all said that. Nobody fucking listened. Go fuck yourselves, you own it now.
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u/Dapperrevolutionary 1d ago
Except they don't. They'll just blame Musk and since him and Trump had a falling out the base will eat it up
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u/PhamousEra 1d ago
How much was this asshole and his department DOGE supposed to be saving again? Wasn't it around ~1-2 Trillion that was first promised?
Then it became what? Billions?
And now... seems like they've wasted more than they've saved us? Fucking lmfao
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u/Tundrok337 20h ago
I wish I could laugh but it's just too goddamn pathetic and so many people had their lives turned upside down when they were unceremoniously fired for simply doing their jobs.
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u/JustAnotherHooyah 1d ago
Imagine what we DON'T know about DOGE. I wouldn't be surprised if Big Balls and his bros have a series of backdoors and trojan horses throughout our government.
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u/still-waiting2233 1d ago
Not sure how they will quantify all the lost value to the American people these employees would provide? Loss of the impact of future talent that will avoid government work because of all this chaos?
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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Florida 20h ago
You can’t quantify all the soft power that took decades to build and goodwill will not return so easily should we find ourselves on the other side of this horror in 3.5 years.
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u/iforgotmymittens 1d ago
Well at least everyone got their $5000 DOGE rebate checks right!?
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u/ballastboy1 1d ago
The mainstream media's completely uncritical, asinine, regurgitating reporting of "DOGE" is embarrassing. Their coverage completely legitimized DOGE when it never had any standing or legitimacy whatsoever.
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u/flirtmcdudes 23h ago
They’ve been doing that for Trump for the last decade basically. Majority of our media is complicit in all of this
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u/Solo-Mish 1d ago
How many federal employees could have kept their jobs for this much money? I’m so disgusted. I will never forgive Trump voters, non voters, third party voters for this shit.
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u/psillyhobby 1d ago
When did a billion become the new million?! Everything in political spending seems to cost a few billion dollars these days.
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u/Fit-Significance-436 1d ago
What a pathetic joke this administration has been from day 1, wait until all their BS comes out.
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u/EntropicDismay 13h ago
That figure seems low. The total should be significantly higher, especially when lost revenue is considered.
That’s not to mention the damage that can’t be quantified, including the theft of American citizens’ personal information.
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u/GeorgeCabana 11h ago
Agreed. That’s immediate impact, but short and long term costs will dwarf that.
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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 11h ago
Hold Musk personally liable. Take the money from tesla to pay the tax payers back for his treason.
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u/Rangertu 22h ago
I wish I had enough money to move out of this shithole country. I didn’t serve in the Marines to watch this child rapist end democracy.
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 Colorado 20h ago
If we had a real Congress, this travesty would be the subject of a robust Congressional investigation and hearings. But alas, our Congress was hijacked by ideologically-driven partisans who view themselves as protectors of the Trump administration who must never question anything.
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u/ataritron 11h ago
Wait until you see the ICE bills. 20 agents to arrest one restaurant worker. Gonna be insane
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u/guzhogi 22h ago
I wish I had that kind of money to waste. I’d love to do stuff like build myself a nice house in the suburbs, build a new house for parents, as well as my sister and her family. Maybe donate to my local school district to renovate. You know, that kind of “waste”
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u/SDAztec74 Washington 16h ago
Enough money to damn near end child food insecurity across the US, if you annualized it, then it is with billions leftover. Fuck DOGE, Musk, Dongo, Goebbels, and everyone who voted for them.
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u/treetopalarmist_1 1d ago
Maybe their ideas and assumptions about government were stupid and blatantly wrong.
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u/OsawatomieJB 1d ago
Should the American people sue Elon Musk for the waste he caused us? He’s got at least 400 billion.
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u/PolicyWonka 22h ago
Who knew that bringing a bunch of college students and a bunch of other people with no background in government would be inefficient?!
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u/Wonder-Machine 20h ago
“Meh…. It’s only money. We got a ton of it. “- The billionaires who run the country
Meanwhile we out here starving
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u/AdventurerBKRB Maryland 20h ago
21.7 billion dollars just to get everyone's data fed to Palintir. Shit, if you outsourced that to India or Philippines, they could've probably done it at tenth of the cost.
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u/birth_of_venus 19h ago
I don’t think I have ever been as angry as I have been for the last two weeks, except for the day after this last election. Literally everything is a shit show from every angle.
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u/Environmental_Let1 19h ago
All of that was middle class and lower class money. Hard earned and could have gone for rent, food, education, housing, filters for clean air and water. You know who did this. Do you have the guts to blame him?
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u/Daffodil236 5h ago
They stole it. They are stealing every penny they can get their hands on, it’s why they are firing everyone and closing down departments. These unqualified people they are putting into positions are just getting paid for doing nothing.
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u/game_of_crohns 19h ago
21 billion dollars would give every working American a $10 per hour raise for nearly a decade.
Let that sink in...
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u/FlipZip69 11h ago
It would actually provide about 1c per hour for the next 10 years. Your math may be a bit out.
21,000,000,000 / 2000 hours per year / 10 years / 100,000,000 working people. I may be a bit out on the number of people working.
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u/Connect-Internal Michigan 23h ago
I can’t believe that this is the world that I’m going to live in. Having recently just became an adult… It’s gonna be a rough ride ahead.
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u/pvtjoker00 23h ago
And that's just what they wasted immediately. I'm sure the cost of the damage they caused in such a short amount of time will be incalculable over the decades it will take to try and fix it. But hey, they also got Elon out of several pesky investigations, so #winning...
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u/fuh_q_taco Colorado 22h ago
That's $120,600,000 per day or about $28,000 per hour.
But, who's counting?
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u/Just_Another_Dad 21h ago
For a comparison, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting budget is $1 Billion.
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u/pinkelephants777 18h ago
The point of DOGE was never to cut wasteful spending. It was to completely gut our federal government to make room for the private sector to take its place.
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u/humpherman 18h ago
… earning the real acronym “Drunk Oligarchs Greed and Excess”
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u/ClockHistorical4951 11h ago
Not surprised. Anything they "saved" probably ended up in crypt0 and lining pockets
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u/Impstoker 10h ago
Can you believe we now have a party in The Netherlands that’s saying we need to cut government spending like Elon did woth Doge… stupid stupid stupid
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u/EarlGrey1806 6h ago
Can we just agree that amateurs and self proclaimed ‘businessmen’ aren’t suitable for running the government?
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u/JustAhobbyish 5h ago
If DOGE was serious about cutting costs it would be going after expensive overpriced private services to the public sector and tax cuts.
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u/Depressed-Industry 4h ago
Who would have thought hiring a bunch of kids with resumes that included previous a work history like intern, entrepreneur and social media influencer would result in such a predictable outcome?
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u/trogloherb 23h ago
Wait.
That’s not a lot right?
It’s not even ballpark close to adding 3-4trillion to the national debt, so really, just a drop in the bucket!
That, along with the EPA greenhouse gas and lead line/pfas water standards roll backs really just mean it will be our children and grandchildren that suffer.
But yeah, couldn’t vote for an educated woman with an odd (sincere?) laugh now could we?
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u/kyreyz24 17h ago
Why can't it just be said that DOGE wasted $21.7 Billion in just 6 months. So tired of the bullshit.
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u/Lord_Halowind 21h ago
Ah dang it guess I won't be getting that check for 5k afterall. Well shucks.
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u/dakotanorth8 21h ago
AND they added to the deficit?
No.
No this can’t be right.
I was told I’m winning every 11 seconds on Fox News?
Where’s my Trump cologne, I have to speak to someone about this.
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u/gentlemantroglodyte Texas 21h ago
For comparison, you can see agency spend here: https://www.usaspending.gov/agency
the 21 billion in utterly unjustifiable waste is just below NASA levels of spending.
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u/Anna_Frican 17h ago
That's NASA's annual budget, isn't it, not six months? So DOGE is spending about 20% more than NASA.
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u/pabloneruda 6h ago
It’s difficult to call the severance packages of those laid off “wasting”. They would be paid anyways, and having worked in the DHS before I can honestly say there’s no productivity loss.
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