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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(122,879 posts)
Wed May 14, 2025, 08:23 PM 13 hrs ago

Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk's Damage

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.

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Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk's Damage (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 13 hrs ago OP
Doge hasnt saved any money Johonny 13 hrs ago #1
Yes I keep asking how much money will the DOGE "savings" end up costing? Irish_Dem 13 hrs ago #4
And that would be all Americans, no exceptions... ananda 10 hrs ago #8
And how many taxpayers will pay with their lives? eom ReRe 10 hrs ago #10
Yes. There will be deaths, illness, injury. Irish_Dem 4 hrs ago #12
Follow the money. KentuckyWoman 10 hrs ago #11
preferable to substitute the word republicans for doge and musk. identify the actual offending party nt msongs 13 hrs ago #2
Hear Hear My Friend BOSSHOG 13 hrs ago #3
A Chainsaw nt BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #5
There would be no " paperwork lag" Figarosmom 11 hrs ago #6
Musk should be held accountable pfitz59 11 hrs ago #7
And then when he is all paid up, cancel all of his government contracts and deport his ass back to Africa Marie Marie 10 hrs ago #9

Johonny

(23,585 posts)
1. Doge hasnt saved any money
Wed May 14, 2025, 08:25 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
4. Yes I keep asking how much money will the DOGE "savings" end up costing?
Wed May 14, 2025, 08:31 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
8. And that would be all Americans, no exceptions...
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:11 PM
10 hrs ago

along with many in other places as well.

msongs

(71,227 posts)
2. preferable to substitute the word republicans for doge and musk. identify the actual offending party nt
Wed May 14, 2025, 08:27 PM
13 hrs ago

BOSSHOG

(42,338 posts)
3. Hear Hear My Friend
Wed May 14, 2025, 08:31 PM
13 hrs ago

Republicans own every bad ounce of the tons of conservative shit generated in less than four months. And yes indeed magas, that’s what you voted for. You are the reason trump says he loves stupid people.

pfitz59

(11,480 posts)
7. Musk should be held accountable
Wed May 14, 2025, 10:56 PM
11 hrs ago

and be forced to cover all costs putting the people and pieces back in place.

Marie Marie

(10,174 posts)
9. And then when he is all paid up, cancel all of his government contracts and deport his ass back to Africa
Wed May 14, 2025, 11:17 PM
10 hrs ago

(or El Salvador - I hear it is beautiful this time of year.)

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