Jaw-Dropping DOGE Savings

[ChemEngrMBA]

These efforts look to me like the product of two years of investigations, not two months.
And Democrats are upset at Trump and Musk saving America from more corruption and waste?????

7,279 contract terminations itemized on 728 pages saving $25 billion

9,283 grant terminations itemized on 929 pages saving $33 billion

676 leases terminated itemized on 68 pages saving $400 million

https://doge.gov/savings

[ChemEngrMBA]

"You know, the people believe we could screw up a one car parade - and they're probably right." - - Bill Clinton to Roger Johnson in 1993
 
"The good news is that the federal government is not mismanaged, as I had expected it to be.  The bad news is that it's not managed at all." - Roger Johnson, Former Head of the General Services Administration, and Clinton Appointee

[Stevensr123]

What’s draw dropping is despite all those savings, probably less than 2% of the annual budget has been saved. It’s all hype unless they start getting rid of some of the larger items

[Wingnut]

What’s draw dropping is despite all those savings, probably less than 2% of the annual budget has been saved. It’s all hype unless they start getting rid of some of the larger items

The last 4 years of the Biden Admin has been a like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.  So anything they cut is a good start, unless it is toilet paper.

[Mod2]

Topic moved to DOGE category

[catfish1957]

Funniest thing, I read today....

https://twitter.com/Huberton/status/1907088933281837221

[Bigun]

Despite all that is currently being done, I still think we are too far gone to be redeemed. Trump a DOGE might delay the inevitable for awhile but as an overall matter, "The Republic is Lost!"

[ChemEngrMBA]

Despite all that is currently being done, I still think we are too far gone to be redeemed. Trump a DOGE might delay the inevitable for awhile but as an overall matter, "The Republic is Lost!"

I believe you re correct.  Regression toward the mean is a fact of nature and the mean is aptly named;  it is mean, keying, spray painting, and burning Teslas out of bitterness and hatred is the latest. "When they go low, we go high." - Barack Obama, who reminded Americans that "Climate change is the biggest threat facing America."  Then he purchased an oceanfront mansion on Martha's Vineyard.

[Bigun]

“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. “

Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775

“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.”

John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776

[mountaineer]

Pete Buttjigger hardest hit. The most important question is always whether a particular highway is queer enough to be used by passenger traffic.


Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
Great job by @SecDuffy and @USDOT for terminating 7 wasteful grants with award value of $54M and savings of $51M, including:

- $6M for “collaborative planning to address safety concerns of women and gender non-conforming people”
- $12M for “accelerating equitable decarbonization”
- $6M for “hyperlocal pollution exposure inequalities” in New York City

The @USDOT is working hard to cut waste and will have more to report over the coming weeks!
4:36 PM · May 2, 2025