Cost of DOGE cuts appear to wipe out most of agency’s reported ‘savings’

Musk’s DOGE Goons’ Total Failure to Cut Spending Revealed

Elon Musk took a chainsaw to federal bureaucracy in the name of slashing down government spending—but he seems to have achieved the complete opposite of his goal instead. With the clock ticking on his DOGE tenure, Musk and his goons have only saved the government an estimated $160 billion, which accounts for a mere 8 percent of his projected $2 trillion in savings. On top of that, the Penn Wharton Budget Model found that government spending has …

An internet publication suggests that it was Obama who created the “DOGE”, an efficiency office announced by Trump and through which the North American administration intends to cut expenses and employees.

100 Days, a Trillion Dollars: DOGE's Costs Keep Adding Up - emptywheel

Congratulations! You’ve survived 100 of the 1461 total days Trump is scheduled to serve as President. In honor of the occasion, I wanted to pull together three accounts of DOGE, which suggest DOGE and related cuts have cost Americans over a trillion dollars. First, there’s this WaPo story from March, which describes the cuts to IRS may cost 10% of revenue — or $500 billion a year. Senior tax officials are bracing for a sharp drop in revenue coll…

Elon Musk’s DOGE Promised Budget Cuts but Spending Is Up $171 Billion Over Prior Years

Savings could also be dwarfed by lost revenue in the years ahead.

DOGE’s efforts to trim federal budget cost nearly as much as it has claimed to save

A study found that DOGE's efforts to trim the federal budget appear to cost nearly as much as the agency claims to have saved.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Dive Endangers His Reputation as a Business Genius

Several reports show Musk’s mass federal firings may have cost taxpayers more than DOGE has saved from spending cuts.