"Back when President Trump and Elon Musk were still best buds and hadn't had their little fallout yet, you'll recall Musk was put in charge of something called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The name was a play on one of Musk's favorite memecoin jokes, but the effort claimed that it would "reduce fraud" and eliminate waste in government. We have some new receipts on the effectiveness of the DOGE program."
"The Washington Post's Meryl Kornfield just unearthed something on the Social Security Administration's new DOGE-mandated three-day wait to process on retirement claims, intended to eliminate fraud. The three day hold for telephone retirement claims has reduced field offices' ability to process these claims timely by 25 percent. The result is fewer retirement claims processed overall, at a time when our agency is seeing record high new retirement claims, a Social Security deputy commissioner wrote in the above unearthed document."
"The group did not do what Mr Musk said it would: reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October, the Times writes. On DOGE's watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. How is that possible? Well gang, the main way that is possible is that DOGE simply published flat-out lies on their DOGE Wall of Receipts."
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) implemented measures intended to reduce fraud and eliminate government waste. A DOGE-mandated three-day hold on telephone retirement claims reduced field offices' processing capacity by about 25 percent and produced fewer processed retirement claims while new claims rose. The three-day hold yielded no appreciable fraud reductions. Reported DOGE savings included miscalculations and fabricated figures, and federal spending rose rather than fell under DOGE's timeline. DOGE failed to achieve the claimed $1 trillion reduction in federal spending and published misleading receipts of savings.
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