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Federal agencies scrambled to bring back over $220 million worth of contracts after Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency cancelled them, The New York Times reports.
However, of those 44 contracts that were cancelled and eventually reinstated, DOGE is still citing all but one of them as examples of the government spending the group supposedly saved on its website's error-plagued "Wall of Receipts." The White House told the NYT that this is "paperwork lag" that will be fixed.
Clerical errors or not, the "zombie contracts" are a damning sign of the chaos sowed by the billionaire's hasty and sweeping cost-cutting that would seem antithetical to its stated goals of efficiency.
"They should have used a scalpel," Rachel Dinkes of the Knowledge Alliance, an association of education companies that includes one that lost a contract, told the NYT. "But instead they went in with an axe and chopped it all down."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/government-furiously-trying-undo-elon-130018753.html
Musk is stuck in the K hole.

Johonny
(23,585 posts)And the costs to repair the damage done just starting to be paid. Oh, and here comes the GOPs bankrupt America tax plan.
Irish_Dem
(69,597 posts)Taxpayers paid to destroy the govt.
Then will have to pay to repair it.
And also Americans will pay because of the lack of safety net.
ananda
(31,721 posts)along with many in other places as well.
ReRe
(11,627 posts)Irish_Dem
(69,597 posts)Also financial pain.
KentuckyWoman
(6,966 posts)It has always been all about the grift with this bunch.
msongs
(71,227 posts)BOSSHOG
(42,338 posts)Republicans own every bad ounce of the tons of conservative shit generated in less than four months. And yes indeed magas, thats what you voted for. You are the reason trump says he loves stupid people.
BidenRocks
(1,454 posts)Figarosmom
(5,580 posts)If they had the proper number of employees to run the place.
pfitz59
(11,480 posts)and be forced to cover all costs putting the people and pieces back in place.
Marie Marie
(10,174 posts)(or El Salvador - I hear it is beautiful this time of year.)