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DOGE has claimed billions in savings by canceling contracts, but many were blanket purchase agreements (BPAs), which set negotiated rates for potential future purchases rather than actual spending.

Canceling BPAs does not save money and may hinder efficiency, as agencies must redo procurement work.

DOGE’s claims face growing scrutiny, with reports showing 40% of cuts yield no savings.

Meanwhile, lawsuits question the agency’s legality, and confusion remains over its leadership, with Trump insisting Elon Musk is in charge.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Man, Elon is another level of dork. You really have to try to be so aggressively lame with all that money and power. Embarrassing.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Shocking literally no one, cancelling a credit card with a 10,000 dollar limit that has only had 2,000 spent on it isn't actually 8,000 in savings.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Next your going to tell me that writing a check for an insane amount of money and withdrawing as much money as possible before the bank realizes is just check fraud.

You just can't comprehend their financial genius!

/s

[–] sepi@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, it might shock you to learn that "genius" Musk does not know this

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

He's doing 5D chess whilst us common mortals can only see 3 dimensions.

Wait, we still have to pay the 2,000? Ugh

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

it is if you went to maga public schools.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I bet Elon is a saboteur working for a foreign entity.

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Saboteur yes, but for him and his billionaire buddies. Destroy public service, tell people that public service is shit and needs to be privatized, profit.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

No war but class war, money doesn't know borders.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

No need to look for foreign scapegoats when it's obvious that the very much local elites are fully into what's being done.

Unwittingly (or so I hope) you're repeating the traditional Fascist propaganda element of "Blame the Outside Enemy", similarly to how the MAGAs blame immigrants.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's clear they're not interested in efficiency. They're just out to cause damage and undermine the USA's public institutions. It's a mixture of hatred, greed, idiotic libertarian ideology, and a preference for Russia over the USA.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago

They set out to prove the incompetence of government by getting into the government and then being incompetent. Its all going swimmingly if injustice is your little horny thing.

[–] PapaSkwat@lemy.lol 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How much longer are we going to let this continue?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Question of the hour.

Germans thought they were free. https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why the sunglasses in every picture you fucking addict?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To ketamine - yes, he's an admitted former addict that is almost certainly backsliding.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

more likely never was a 'former' one.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

He quit. He's the best at quitting drugs, he's quit them hundreds of times.

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago

Every day, things get dumber

[–] vanta@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aren't DOGE supposed to cut everyone a $5,000 check after getting rid of Woke from the federal government? Highly doubtful they 'saved' enough money to actually do that

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

I heard that, but don't you dare call them stimulus checks or they might realize what they're doing.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 20 hours ago

Can't wait to donate mine to things that are fighting everything they are doing.