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Elon Musk's DOGE office budget more than doubles from $6.5 to $14.4 million
(www.businessinsider.com)
Sounds like doge should cut its own funding
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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If your budget ballooned 113.333% in three weeks. That tells me that you're not very efficient, Muskie Boy.
That implies that there is corruption of some kind, especially when there is no oversight on how your spending the money, Muskie Boy.
I mean I could save the US trillions by just shutting everything down, not sure if that results in "savings" though. Suspect there is a reason that money was allocated by congress.
Progress and running a society costs money. There is always places to improve how it's spent, but doing restorative work on a building with C4 usually isn't the best route.
They're running our country like a civil war surgeon, they're just going to hack off limbs, and if God wills it, we'll survive.
Well how else will they afford their anime girl gold-plated office toilets and all their diamond-encrusted Nazi paraphernalia?
It’s not about efficiency. It’s about ripping you off.
can't save money without spending money. amirite? seriously how in debt will we be after this administration combined with wrecking our infrastructure from roads to agencies.
Can't have debt after this administration if there's no more administrations!
Uhh why isn't he just paying for it out of his own pocket!?
All those "hackers" don't know a recursive function?
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