Summary

DOGE has claimed billions in savings by canceling contracts, but many were blanket purchase agreements (BPAs), which set negotiated rates for potential future purchases rather than actual spending.

Canceling BPAs does not save money and may hinder efficiency, as agencies must redo procurement work.

DOGE’s claims face growing scrutiny, with reports showing 40% of cuts yield no savings.

Meanwhile, lawsuits question the agency’s legality, and confusion remains over its leadership, with Trump insisting Elon Musk is in charge.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    164 months ago

    Man, Elon is another level of dork. You really have to try to be so aggressively lame with all that money and power. Embarrassing.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      No need to look for foreign scapegoats when it’s obvious that the very much local elites are fully into what’s being done.

      Unwittingly (or so I hope) you’re repeating the traditional Fascist propaganda element of “Blame the Outside Enemy”, similarly to how the MAGAs blame immigrants.

    • @[email protected]
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      204 months ago

      Saboteur yes, but for him and his billionaire buddies. Destroy public service, tell people that public service is shit and needs to be privatized, profit.

  • @[email protected]
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    124 months ago

    Aren’t DOGE supposed to cut everyone a $5,000 check after getting rid of Woke from the federal government? Highly doubtful they ‘saved’ enough money to actually do that

    • bitwolf
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      14 months ago

      I heard that, but don’t you dare call them stimulus checks or they might realize what they’re doing.

    • 🖖USS-Ethernet
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      14 months ago

      Can’t wait to donate mine to things that are fighting everything they are doing.

  • Stern
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    844 months ago

    Shocking literally no one, cancelling a credit card with a 10,000 dollar limit that has only had 2,000 spent on it isn’t actually 8,000 in savings.

    • sepi
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      274 months ago

      Well, it might shock you to learn that “genius” Musk does not know this

    • @[email protected]
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      94 months ago

      Next your going to tell me that writing a check for an insane amount of money and withdrawing as much money as possible before the bank realizes is just check fraud.

      You just can’t comprehend their financial genius!

      /s

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    4 months ago

    It’s clear they’re not interested in efficiency. They’re just out to cause damage and undermine the USA’s public institutions. It’s a mixture of hatred, greed, idiotic libertarian ideology, and a preference for Russia over the USA.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    They set out to prove the incompetence of government by getting into the government and then being incompetent. Its all going swimmingly if injustice is your little horny thing.