Musk Drops DOGE Savings Goal from $1 Trillion to $150 Billion

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Elon Musk said he anticipates the Department of Government Efficiency's efforts to slash "waste and fraud" from the federal government will cut $150 billion in spending over the next fiscal year, appearing to dramatically lower much-loftier projections he previously touted.

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#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-12 02:00 AM | Reply

It was originally $2 Trillion. So about 7.5% of target.

Sounds like DOGE should fire themselves.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-12 02:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

90% = salaries of the fired

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-04-12 08:47 AM | Reply

DOGE is the fraud

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-12 09:31 AM | Reply

What a fraud.

He's always been one.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-12 11:43 AM | Reply

DOGE was a massive waste of tax payer dollars.

It's insane how republicans can't see it.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-12 11:45 AM | Reply

They raised the pentagon budget more than what they are saving?!? WAR = DUMB. If that is true, then what is spending endless amounts of cash (that can't be audited)?

#7 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-04-12 12:09 PM | Reply

Yet another failure that was obvious before they even started.

Well, obvious if you aren't a room temp IQ maga dips%^*.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-12 12:15 PM | Reply

Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-12 12:22 PM | Reply

---- DOGE, ---- Musk, and ---- Trump.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-12 01:02 PM | Reply

Thoughts and Prayers.
Nothing Can Be Done.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-12 01:34 PM | Reply

@#2 ... It was originally $2 Trillion. So about 7.5% of target. ...

What will the DOGE net savings be?

Considering the IRS is now crippled and cannot persue wealthy tax cheats, that $150 billion may not even be seen.

Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS (March 22, 2025)
www.washingtonpost.com

... Senior tax officials are bracing for a sharp drop in revenue collected this spring, as an increasing number of individuals and businesses spurn filing their taxes or attempt to skip paying balances owed to the Internal Revenue Service, according to three people with knowledge of tax projections.

Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline compared with 2024, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share nonpublic data. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue; the IRS collected $5.1 trillion last year. ...

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-12 02:29 PM | Reply

Anyone claiming this was about debt or deficits isn't looking at the equation. The goal is to borrow ANOTHER FIVE TRILLION.

This is just slashing to destroy the administrative state.

The folks who refused to read and learn from history are going to force us to relive it.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-12 02:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"the IRS is now crippled"

The two best ROIs for the government are foreign aid, and the IRS high-income division.

Sorry...were.

#14 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-12 02:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Another Leon produced unscheduled rapid disassembly. Yahoo!

#15 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-12 02:46 PM | Reply