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DOGE deletes its 'wall of receipts' after massive errors pointed out (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The last of the top five disappeared early Tuesday morning from DOGE's website, and the Times reported that some of the new canceled contracts added this week appear to contain the same types of errors that plagued the original top five, which included a reported $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $655 million cut at the U.S. Agency for International Development and $232 million at the Social Security Administration.

▪️ICE's entire budget is about $8 billion, and the contract in question was worth $8 million, but DOGE seemed to rely on an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database as its metric for savings.

▪️DOGE employees also erroneously counted a single cut three times in an apparent misunderstanding of how government contracts sometimes have "ceiling values" that are much higher than what is actually spent.

▪️Musk's organization also seems to have mistakenly believed that SSA had canceled a massive information technology contract, but it had only ended a $560,000 portion of that project.

Also, he looks like Mona Lisa smelling shit in that pic.

[–] DrFistington 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you hired an outside IT contractor to do the same shit, and they had these kinds of errors, you would sue the shit out of them for incompetence, negligence, fraud, etc... and win

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

True.

But we're missing the point here. They just need to bullshit long enough pretending to "remove fraud". Their goal is to make sure the previously mostly nonpolitical burecracy is entirely under the control of the executive. Reducing services to taxpayers in the name of " reducing government spending/fraud/waste/whatever " is just a nice bonus for them.

They're lying and they have been for a while. They're not an unruly, incompetent contractor. They're traitors and saboteurs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

But somehow they're not being treated as traitors and saboteurs!

Most of us are just sitting and watching in horror. A handful are clutching their pearls and going on about how violence is never even okay.

[–] credo 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If only we had an organization in the government to root out this level of incompetence.

[–] glitch1985 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Who's going to DOGE the DOGE?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Who DOGEs the DOGE boys?