Why DOGE’s ‘Receipts’ Show Elon Musk’s Math Doesn’t Add Up
www.thedailybeast.com
The receipts, initially promised before Valentine’s Day, were finally made public Monday evening.

Summary

DOGE released a “wall of receipts” claiming $55 billion in taxpayer savings, but discrepancies have emerged.

The total savings listed in its Monday release only add up to 1/3 of that figure, with some closures pre-dating DOGE’s existence from the Biden era.

Some terminated contracts show $0 in savings, and a major $8 billion item appears to be a typo.

DOGE also omits severance costs that could offset its claimed savings.

Despite promising transparency, the site’s methodology remains dubious, raising doubts about its accuracy.

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
    21·
    4 days ago

    Standard conservative lie.
    Sell assets and put them in the budget to mask the deficit and “pay for” tax cuts.

    Stephen Harper and Pierre Poilievre turned a $15 billion / year surplus into a $20 billion / year deficit that way, masking it as “only” $10 billion a year for 8 years.