Summary
Elon Musk falsely claimed an $8 billion saving on a canceled contract that was actually worth only $8 million, significantly inflating its reported $55 billion in total savings.
The error, first identified by The New York Times, was based on an incorrect figure in federal procurement records.
Additionally, DOGE’s accounting has been questioned due to inconsistencies in its reported savings, including counting already-paid portions of contracts and taking credit for office closures when Joe Biden was still president.
DOGE has not publicly addressed the mistake.
Billions, millions, is there a difference?
there’s actually a joke about this:
—what’s the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars?
—about a billion dollars.
we must put an end to having billionaires.
Oh,I know this - the first letter! What’s my price?
I mean Elon himself has said don’t trust what he says.
So I don’t understand how they can even know what the “savings” would be? Wouldn’t all of these contract terminations be “for convenience” meaning the government will have to pay a settlement to the contractor for cancelling?
Let’s say it’s 50% completed, so we know we have 50% funds unpaid. You cancel the contract, but the contractor wants another X% for materials they already purchased. How do we know what the savings would be already?
Because it’s all lies. They are reporting, very generously, the total amount allocated to the things cut. There has been no deep investigation as to their connections or dependencies or completion percentage. They didn’t read every contract to figure out what canceling it would mean because THEY won’t be paying for it. We will.
It’s not shocking. None of this is shocking. They have a playbook. They published it YEARS before the election. They said they would use the playbook. They are using the playbook. It’s not a surprise. You’re not allowed to be surprised by this. Fucking stop it. Holy fucking christ.
But, but… Trump said he had nothing to do with it? He’s hurting the wrong people!
I sincerely hope both of them dies from a natural deaths, but it should happen within the next few hours.
Its not a mistake its an intentional lie.
This administration is more likely to punish the NYT for finding the “mistake” than it is to punish anyone in DOGE for being involved in it.
“Mistake”
These dogebag fElonYouth don’t give a fuck about accuracy or anything like that. It’s all about moving fast and breaking things, even if that’s a stupid slogan for stupid companies that don’t really have critical infrastructure when it comes to humanity, and government is not a business and should never, ever be run like a business.
DOGE == mistake
My beloved dog from a simpler internet, reduced to this utter nonsense
Since they think there’s a billion illegal aliens in the country, this tracks… /s
TLDR : Duh
