Summary
DOGE released a “wall of receipts” claiming $55 billion in taxpayer savings, but discrepancies have emerged.
The total savings listed in its Monday release only add up to 1/3 of that figure, with some closures pre-dating DOGE’s existence from the Biden era.
Some terminated contracts show $0 in savings, and a major $8 billion item appears to be a typo.
DOGE also omits severance costs that could offset its claimed savings.
Despite promising transparency, the site’s methodology remains dubious, raising doubts about its accuracy.
Just a reminder that before he even took office, Trump tried to strongarm Congress into increasing the debt ceiling.
There has never been any intention to actually save any money. That was and is a blatant and obvious lie, as evidenced by the simple and undeniable fact that Trump has already signaled his clear intention to not only increase spending, but to increase it even more than Congress was willing to go along with.
So of course the “receipts” don’t add up - they’re part of the lie.
The saddest thing is that I’m sure he’s going to cook the books so GDP and the deficit look amazing while actually being much worse then any of the Biden years.
Oh absolutely. Filing false financial information in order to inflate value is one of his specialties.
Standard conservative lie.
Sell assets and put them in the budget to mask the deficit and “pay for” tax cuts.
Stephen Harper and Pierre Poilievre turned a $15 billion / year surplus into a $20 billion / year deficit that way, masking it as “only” $10 billion a year for 8 years.