$8 Billion was Actually $8 Million in DOGE Mistake

Thursday, February 20, 2025

They claimed 55 billion - the largest single source was 8 billion, which actually turned out to be 8 million.

Posted by yav at 06:31 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

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-- Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM

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Interesting link to peruse:
doge.gov

#1 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-19 10:07 AM | Reply

Ok, 80 bucks. Which bought several hamberders for the ------ in chief.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-19 10:15 AM | Reply

Bad Doge!

#3 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-19 10:57 AM | Reply

Doge is a distraction from what Republicans in Congress are about to do to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Doge has only been looking at less than 1 percent of the Budget... because most of the Budget is the Sacred Territory of Banks we owe interest to and the Military MIC which we refuse to make ever pass an Audit.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-19 12:04 PM | Reply

Yep - the only way to reach their 2 trillion target is cutting SS, Medicare, and Medicaid. This is such a waste of time. They're laying off people we need, they figure that out, but then can't rehire them because they don't/can't reach them.

This is like the old Keystone Cops.

#5 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-19 12:44 PM | Reply

"Saves"

I'm not sure that's the word I'd use for most of these cuts.

#6 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-02-19 01:07 PM | Reply

They're laying off people we need, they figure that out, but then can't rehire them because they don't/can't reach them.

"NEED"? idk plenty of companies are cutting people they seem to be getting by.

In 2023, the U.S. job market experienced a trend where nearly25% of all job gains were attributed to government positions, underscoring a significant reliance on public sector employment to sustain economic growth.
finance.yahoo.com

I don't believe for one second all NEEDED.

I'm not sure that's the word I'd use for most of these cuts.
#6 | Posted by Sycophant

I don't think they are even cuts, they are just executive branch changing policy.

But what doesn't make sense is that all the people complaining about losing their jobs. Either there were cuts or weren't.

I applaud the effort, as most of these things were know before.

I don't like the way Musk is doing this, DOGE Eo was that they were to make a report, they seem to be amateur and it will cost Musk in the end..

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-19 01:18 PM | Reply

Yes, need.
Even they realized that.
Which if you'd read all the way through and not to the point where you feel you have enough to be billgerant, you'd realize.

They're laying off people we need, they figure(d) that out, but then can't rehire them because they don't/can't reach them

#8 | Posted by YAV at 2025-02-19 01:32 PM | Reply

---- off Jeff, you ------- ----

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-19 09:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Elon Musk, the leader of DOGE, claims the organization's sweeping cuts have already saved the government $55 billion. The Onion examines the key facts and figures behind the Department Of Government Efficiency.

20,000: Free lunch sandwiches confiscated from schoolchildren's mouths mid-bite

17: Cancer research breakthroughs successfully averted

45: Minutes per meeting spent looking at videos on Elon Musk's phone

83: FAA employees left between you and a Boeing 747 crashing into your house

10%: Group discount on department fake ID order

13,000: Federal employees laid off via meme

500: Nut taps distributed

253: Number of scorned public servants currently writing manifestos

8: Times Elon Musk has tried to explain why the agency name is funny to Trump

theonion.com

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-20 11:43 PM | Reply

And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION

No doubt.

Hey no one is right 100% of the time. Elmo says if he is wrong you can feel free to just correct him! Elmo loves being corrected. Almost as much as Elmo loves ketamine. But not quite.

As for these supposed savings.

You cannot claim any savings until the end of the year when we tally up and include the calculations of how much it actually costs to repair the damage done to our economy and our country and how many deaths will be caused by Mr Toad's Wild Rampage through our government.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-21 12:47 PM | Reply