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Baitball Blogger

(49,516 posts)
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 07:25 AM Thursday

Someone is auditing DOGE's receipts to prove he's over-inflating the numbers.

See, if he was a legitimate accountant, he would see immediate repercussions. But he's just a mouth with money in his pockets and no one will hold him accountable.


https://doge.muskwatch.com/

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Someone is auditing DOGE's receipts to prove he's over-inflating the numbers. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Thursday OP
Good thing... 2naSalit Thursday #1
Muskrat and his goons are playing smart malaise Thursday #2
I think it might be the other way around... Think. Again. Thursday #4
This. Aka, "too clever by half" ms liberty Thursday #6
LOL malaise Thursday #7
How much does doge cost? kerouac2 Thursday #3
Excellent question... Think. Again. Thursday #5
DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find dalton99a Thursday #8

Think. Again.

(21,843 posts)
4. I think it might be the other way around...
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 08:22 AM
Thursday

They're being clever, as in "tricky", but certainly nothing they're doing is smart, not even for their own nefarious goals.

Think. Again.

(21,843 posts)
5. Excellent question...
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 08:23 AM
Thursday

....the total cost of their activities should be figured into the balance sheet.

dalton99a

(87,263 posts)
8. DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
Thu Mar 13, 2025, 09:59 AM
Thursday
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/us/politics/doge-errors-funding-grants-claims.html

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find
Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.
By David A. Fahrenthold and Jeremy Singer-Vine
March 13, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has repeatedly posted error-filled data that inflated its success at saving taxpayer money. But after a series of news reports called out those mistakes, the group changed its tactics.

It began making its new mistakes harder to find, leaving its already secretive activities even less transparent than before.

Mr. Musk’s group posted a new set of claims to its website on March 2, saying it had saved taxpayers $10 billion by terminating 3,489 federal grants.

Previously when it posted new claims, DOGE, Mr. Musk’s government-restructuring effort, had included identifying details about the cuts it took credit for. That allowed the public to fact-check its work by comparing its figures with federal spending databases and talking to the groups whose funding had been cut.

This time, it did not include those details. A White House official said that was done for security purposes.

The result was that the group’s new claims appeared impossible to check.

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