Frank wrote on May 19
th, 2025 at 5:19pm:
Estimated Savings so far
$170B
Combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.
Amount Saved Per Taxpayer
$1,055.90
Per taxpayer amount is calculated using an estimate of 161 million individual federal taxpayers.
https://doge.gov/savings Apart from the fact that the figures provided by doge are highly inflated, and scrutiny has found the actual amount is far less then is being claimed by doge, you also have to look at the other side of the ledger
Quote:We’ve watched as DOGE chief Elon Musk’s promised pot of savings from his “efficiency” operation has shrunk from $2 trillion to $1 trillion to what he now claims is $150 billion, or 7.5% the amount initially promised. Now new estimates suggest that the way Musk has gone about his cost-cutting crusade might cost nearly as much as — if not more — than what he claims to have saved taxpayers.
As The New York Times reports, DOGE hasn’t been cheap for the federal government:
The Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that studies the federal work force, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity, and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year. At the Internal Revenue Service, a DOGE-driven exodus of 22,000 employees would cost about $8.5 billion in revenue in 2026 alone, according to figures from the Budget Lab at Yale University.
Put those two figures together and you’re approaching $145 billion in costs. And that’s not counting, as the Times notes, the legal fees the federal government is incurring to defend against dozens of lawsuits contesting DOGE’s authority.
A White House spokesman defended the cuts in a statement to the Times, saying, “It’s important to realize that doing nothing has a cost, too, and these so-called experts and groups are conveniently absent when looking at the costs of doing nothing.” It should be noted that DOGE’s costs up front might be more expensive than in subsequent years.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-doge-savings-trump-rcna203...at this rate, doge is going to cost the American taxpayers billions
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