Report: DOGE Wasted $21.7 Billion of American Taxpayer Money

Saturday, August 02, 2025

US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a Minority staff report unveiling that Elon Musk's brainchild, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has generated at least $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government between 20 Jan 2025 and 18 July 2025. The report, "The $21.7 Billion Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by DOGE," follows a months-long investigation into Elon Musk and DOGE and is the most comprehensive effort to date to quantify taxpayer dollars squandered by DOGE despite its ostensible goal of eliminating government waste. Source: Full Report

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"This report is a searing indictment of DOGE's false claims. At the very same time that the Trump Administration is cutting health care, nutrition assistance, and emergency services in the name of efficiency' and savings,' they have enabled DOGE's reckless waste of at least $21.7 billion dollars," said Blumenthal. "As my PSI investigation has shown, DOGE was clearly never about efficiency or saving the American taxpayer money. I urge Inspectors General to take up our investigation's findings and initiate a comprehensive review of DOGE's careless actions."

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No. F*&^ing. S(*&.

I'm sure the exact dollar amount isn't 100% accurate. Probably inflated for dramatic effect.

But DOGE was never about efficiency, fraud, waste or abuse.

It was about getting the idiots to learn that mantra while accessing massive amounts of citizen data that had been siloed by law and by people who actually gave a s*&^ in their jobs, not matter what worthless cucks like lfthndcuck, fistedp^&&$ and ballwringer believe.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-02 12:22 AM | Reply

Besides this investigation of DOGE, through the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) can hold hearings and investigate Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. As a minority member though, Senator Blumenthal can only invite witnesses to testify without subpoena power, such as the AUSA and FBI agents who investigated Ghislaine Maxwell (see names in first link).

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is the Committee's chief investigative subcommittee and has the responsibility of studying and investigating the efficiency and economy of operations relating to all branches of the government. The Subcommittee is also tasked with studying and investigating the compliance or noncompliance with rules, regulations and laws, investigating all aspects of crime and lawlessness within the US which have an impact upon or affect the national health, welfare and safety, including syndicated crime, investment fraud schemes, commodity and security fraud, computer fraud, and the use of offshore banking and corporate facilities to carry out criminal objectives.

Links:

www.justice.gov

www.hsgac.senate.gov

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-02 12:23 AM | Reply

Elon? Elon who?

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-02 12:27 AM | Reply

How long is it going to take for MAGAs to realize that "winning" comes with an unacceptable price?

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-03 01:16 AM | Reply

MMAGAs will go out of business when Trump flat-lines.

It's the Independents who are being courted now.

Watch and see Trump start doing a lot of "good deeds" to win them back into the GOP fold. Trusting, of course, that short attention spans pay off, at lease long enough for Trump to continue his revenge on America for him losing the '20 election.

THAT'S a festering anal-boil he'll never get over.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-03 06:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

So no waste actually. The people are getting fired and some dumb judge has tried to halt the actions resulting in this. Why don't they do a report on how much stupid judges are costing the country with orders like

"You have to bring back that criminal gang member you already deported"

#6 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-08-03 07:36 AM | Reply

But they wrote some awesome code, Scooter, Biff and Stinky got high level government jobs where they can live in their offices, Leon got a bunch of -------' contracts for fat stacks, and the DOGE guys even met some women who had to be nice to them because they are all employees now...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-03 08:28 AM | Reply

"You have to bring back that criminal gang member you already deported""

Right wing lies never die; they just become the news at Fox so all the idiots like The Bullshi**er can hear his favorite lies repeated every mornung because otherwise he can't remember them long enough to repeat them verbatim..

#8 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-03 08:36 AM | Reply

""You have to bring back that criminal gang member you already deported""

Have you ever heard the words "due process?"

Look it up. It's in the Constitution. Dummy!

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-08-03 09:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Why don't they do a report on how much stupid judges are costing the country with orders like
"You have to bring back that criminal gang member you already deported"
#6 | Posted by THEBULL

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

Including the six Republican appointees and three Trump appointees on the Supreme Court who told Trump:

"You have to bring back that criminal gang member you already deported"

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-03 01:46 PM | Reply

"You have to bring back that criminal gang member you already deported"

Aren't you one of those idiots who wave the Constitution around? You should read it sometime.

#11 | Posted by zarnon at 2025-08-03 08:31 PM | Reply

@#9 ... Have you ever heard the words "due process?" ...

Bingo.

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-03 08:44 PM | Reply

"$155 million in time costs to require nearly a million employees to send weekly accomplishment emails to the Office of Personnel Management amounting to millions of hours of wasted time."

This one is classic. Sure, all that time lost because the workers had to spend so much time trying to figure out what they did the last week.

The costs that were put up are for the most part severance packages for workers that are not needed. Cheaper to pay them the severance than keep them on.

#13 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-08-04 12:00 PM | Reply

#13 It's so on message for Republicans to not understand the concept of Opportunity Cost.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-04 12:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

and saved 170B in the process

+150B net savings

#15 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-08-04 07:02 PM | Reply

"and saved 170B in the process. +150B net savings"

And then cut taxes $5 Trillion.

What's the new total, if you use Actual Math?

#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-04 07:06 PM | Reply

#15 | Posted by Maverick

It was still waste, though. Could have been $170 billion, but they wasted twenty of it.

Literally violating their intent!

Anyways, these savings claims have faced significant scrutiny and skepticism. Independent analyses and experts have pointed out that many savings numbers lack supporting evidence and that actual government spending did not decrease overall. In fact, total federal spending rose by about $156 billion compared to the previous year, despite DOGE's cuts.

Assessments highlight that the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts, such as paid leave for furloughed employees, rehiring after court rulings, lost productivity, and legal expenses"could amount to about $135 billion, potentially offsetting a large share of the claimed savings

#17 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-04 07:07 PM | Reply