Summary

DOGE released a ā€œwall of receiptsā€ 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 DOGEā€™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 siteā€™s methodology remains dubious, raising doubts about its accuracy.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    The saddest thing is that Iā€™m sure heā€™s going to cook the books so GDP and the deficit look amazing while actually being much worse then any of the Biden years.

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      Oh absolutely. Filing false financial information in order to inflate value is one of his specialties.

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      Standard conservative lie.
      Sell assets and put them in the budget to mask the deficit and ā€œpay forā€ tax cuts.

      Stephen Harper and Pierre Poilievre turned a $15 billion / year surplus into a $20 billion / year deficit that way, masking it as ā€œonlyā€ $10 billion a year for 8 years.