A U.S. judge has ordered Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to turn over a variety of records and answer questions describing their efforts to slash federal spending.
NEW: A federal judge, for the first time, has ordered discovery on Elon Musk's role in DOGE and his authority over the massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/03 ...
-- Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) March 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Oh, this could get interesting.
For example, an article I read earlier today ...
DOGE Makes Its Flubs Harder to Find. So Much for "Transparency"
www.vanityfair.com
... Elon Musk said last month that his Department of Government Efficiency was publishing cuts to federal spending online in an effort to be "maximally transparent." So much for all that.
Just one month later, the New York Times reports, DOGE has overhauled the way it reports supposed savings to make those cuts a lot harder to track"and makes mistakes a lot harder to find.
And there are apparently many. In the weeks since the DOGE "wall of receipts" launched, it has been riddled with errors. The group has claimed credit for purging contracts that ended decades ago and confused an $8 million ICE contract for an $8 billion contract, among other flubs. DOGE previously responded to the Times' reporting by simply deleting the claims, including five of the biggest purported savings.
Now, DOGE is no longer reporting exactly which programs are getting the axe.
Instead, the Times reported, earlier this month, the group claimed another $10 billion in savings from the elimination of 3,489 federal grants, without specifying which grants it was referring to. When the Times discovered federal identification numbers embedded in the website's source code and used that to identify some grants, DOGE reportedly deleted those too. ...
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