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socal2 says

Who could be against this?

People on the receiving end of the grift.

Booger says

Would like to see a chart on this showing other races just to show how insane that number is.

https://thepostmillennial.com/doge-deactivates-over-500000-credit-cards-across-dozens-of-federal-agencies

DOGE deactivates over 500,000 credit cards across dozens of federal agencies

In a post on X, DOGE announced that the over 500,000 suspended cards span across 32 federal agencies. DOGE added that at the start of the audit, there were roughly 4.6 million active credit cards and accounts in use.

“The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated,” DOGE said in its post. "As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/2-6-25/

Elon Musk Reveals DOGE Discovered 100,000 Active Federal Employees Who Were Also Collecting Unemployment Insurance...

Elon Musk: We’ve actually found there’s a lot of people who are federal government employees. They’re active employees who nonetheless applied for and have received unemployment insurance. While they’re federal employees? Yes. Wow. And this appears to be at least 100,000 people.

Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents.

After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases that had a high probability of being fraudulent.

The anti-fraud tool set up last month after weeks of changes to the agency’s telephone policies has slowed retirement claim processing by 25% and led to a "degradation of public service,” according to an internal May document that examined potentially cutting the anti-fraud tool for phone claims.

Under the new policy, the agency found that only two benefit claims out of over 110,000 had a high probability of being fraudulent — and they aren’t guaranteed to be so. Less than 1% of claims were flagged as even potentially fraudulent at all.

“No significant fraud has been detected from the flagged cases,” the internal document said.

The attention to fraud, however, did cause delays, as SSA changed its phone procedures to add the checks on the backend.

The lags stem from the three-day hold placed on telephone claims in order to run the antifraud claims, a move that “delays payments and benefits to customers, despite an extremely low risk of fraud,” as the document noted.

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/05/doge-went-looking-phone-fraud-ssa-and-found-almost-none/405346/

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block an effort to open the inner workings of the secretive DOGE cost-cutting effort to public scrutiny.

The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Wednesday urging the high court to put a hold on a judge’s orders giving a watchdog group access to documents detailing firings, grant terminations and other actions proposed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which was overseen by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.

Why all the secrecy? Shouldn't they be proud to show their excellent work?

Even Grok is not impressed:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/26/doge-social-security-officially-removes-12-3-million-individuals-listed-age-120/

DOGE: Social Security Officially Removes 12.3 Million Individuals Listed Age 120+

Does that mean that those defrauding SS from ages 90 to 120 are still in the game?

https://www.randpaulreview.com/p/rand-backs-musk-big-beautiful-spending

RAND BACKS MUSK: 'Big, Beautiful' Spending Bill UNDERMINES DOGE

The bill would would explode the debt by $4 trillion virtually erasing all the work Elon and his team have done.

One of the most promising parts of Donald Trump’s second term was the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

Musk’s original goal was to find $2 trillion in cuts. DOGE did find billions.

All DOGE could really do, mostly, is find and recommend the cuts. It takes Congress to actually cut the spending. Virtually all Republicans originally supported Musk and DOGE, in rhetoric and theory.

But now the time has come. This isn’t campaign mode. Trump won. That part’s done.

This is getting sh** done mode.

We have a Republican president RIGHT NOW. We have a Republican Congress RIGHT NOW. This might be the only chance that Republicans could actually make the cuts DOGE recommended.

And yet the current spending bill - that passed a Republican led House - does none of that.

In fact, it adds $4 trillion to the national debt.

WTF? ...




... Thomas Massie caught holy hell from MAGA Republicans for opposing the House spending bill that passed. He was joined by Warren Davidson.

Why did Massie oppose it? For the same reasons Musk said in that interview: It does not include the DOGE cuts and adds trillions to America’s $36 trillion national debt.

But Republicans were supposed to support it because… well, that’s unclear. Something about cutting spending in ten years which is totally unrealistic and we’ve heard it before. The cuts never comes. ...

The re-election of Donald Trump has given Americans a unique chance to begin to clean up our debt and endless spending, an effort no Democrat or conventional Republican president was likely to lead.

Are we just going to throw this opportunity way?

Patrick says

Are we just going to throw this opportunity way?

What 'opportunity'? Congress is controlled by the Uniparty, not MAGA. There isn't nor ever was any 'opportunity'.

Trump can always veto.

This is why bills need to be much smaller, so that vetoes don't jeopardize important legislation. Instead, omnibus bills hold countless worthwhile programs hostage to grift and globohomo goals.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-on-doge-trump-administration-and-responsibility-for-cuts/

those vocal against DOGE are against it because it goes against their Big Government ideology

they want more and more government spending and control

they want to see DOGE fail

.

I'm vocal against DOGE because it goes along with my ideology but does so little it's not even funny.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-social-security-administration/

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration

AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

but i read they settled for few thousand dollars, something insignificant.

Fortwaye says

but i read they settled for few thousand dollars, something insignificant.

Add to that this is what they plead guilty to, in order to avoid charges on the more egregious stuff they actually did.

https://www.doge.gov/ seems to still be cutting:

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
🇺🇸July 4th Contracts Update!🇺🇸

In the last 2 days, agencies terminated 54 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.8B and savings of $804M, including a $842k USAID professional services contract for a “director of the Armenia innovation hub within the USAID/Armenia Economic...

The administration of US President Donald Trump has begun requesting that hundreds of government employees, who were dismissed during the operation of Elon Musk’s DOGE department, return to work.

US media reports that they received a copy of an internal memo issued by the US General Services Administration (GSA). The memo states that GSA employees who were dismissed during Musk’s tenure have until the end of the week to agree to return to work — or to decline.

For those who agree, the first working day will begin on October 6, after a seven-month paid leave during which the dismissed employees were effectively inactive. This has led to massive overspending by the GSA, which ultimately falls on taxpayers.

The GSA not only had to cover dozens of housing lease contracts for the dismissed employees — the agency, whose main responsibility is managing federal properties and workplaces, also struggled to operate properly because a significant portion of its 12,000 staff had been let go.

"Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed. They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions," commented Chad Becker, a former GSA employee.

Moreover, it’s not just the GSA bringing back employees. The US Department of Labor has also begun reinstating previously dismissed workers, and the National Park Service had earlier reinstated several former employees.

Eric Holder says

The administration of US President Donald Trump has begun requesting that hundreds of government employees, who were dismissed during the operation of Elon Musk’s DOGE department, return to work.

Another round of bullshit w/o even mentioning a source, just like this one..

What is it about 92% of Federal employees in the District are registered Democrats...including Fed governors.

We have DoJ personnel ignoring crimes committed by Democrats even refusing to prosecute simple cases.

Good time for a purge I say.

https://x.com/DOGE/status/1976827107306070313

Over the last 5 days, agencies terminated and descoped 108 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $5.8B and savings of $397M, including a $3.1M State Dept. education contract for “Tanzania National Coordination Office Development”, a $46.5k US Agency for Global Media lease for “office space for the Voice of America East Asia and Pacific Service”, a $5.8M HHS training contract for “organizational development, executive coaching, and leadership training”, and a $44M State Dept. contract for “professional services in Doha, Qatar”.

Patrick says

DOGE: Social Security Officially Removes 12.3 Million Individuals Listed Age 120+

The next obvious step is to find out if, who, and for how long any checks to these really old people have been cashed.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-matrix-abides

Donald Trump will take a few brief victory laps and, by Tuesday, all that nasty business might be behind him, at least for a while. . . maybe. Mr. Trump has a whole lot of fish to fry back here. He is fixing to disassemble the entire armature of Democratic Party sedition by wrecking the armature of NGOs that feed it — and you should not be surprised to learn that billions of the dollars sloshing through that colossal money-laundry originate in US government tax receipts.

For instance, the diligent “X” account known as “DataRepublican (small r)” reports that the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) with gross receipts of $363,001,576 received $362,047,237 from taxpayers, mainly through the State Department (including pre-Trump 2.0 USAID). The org, initially founded by Reagan Republicans, is now controlled by Democrats and their Neocon cronies bent on “nation-building” and color revolutions. Wherever there is turmoil in the world — Ukraine, Sudan, Pakistan, Myanmar — the NED has a piece of the action.

Stanford University, with an endowment of $23,780, 883,880, received $1,518,836,616 in taxpayer funds (those are billions), used to sponsor its Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), which spun off the Election Integrity Project (EIP) and the Virality Project. The former was dedicated, under “Joe Biden,” to assist Christopher Wray’s FBI and the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, in censoring social media on matters such as the Hunter Biden Laptop .

The Election Integrity Project ran a parallel op under “Joe Biden” tracing 2020 election “disinformation” — i.e., anybody who reported ballot fraud — and the EIP worked to censor such content across platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube with help from Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Global Engagement Center (GEC). The Virality Project likewise dedicated itself to Covid-19 speech suppression. A lot of this money was funneled through subsidiary NGOs such as the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Omidyar network (the eBay fortune). ...

This matrix is the same source of funding for Antifa and other Lefty-Woke outfits seeking to sow chaos through our country. The next big event on the agenda is another national “No Kings” protest, scheduled for Saturday, October 18, in over 2,000 US towns and cities. It’s organized by the umbrella NGO, Indivisible, with cash from George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundation, the Berger Action Fund (the philanthropic vehicle of Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss), the Tides Foundation, and the Act Blue donation platform (currently under DOJ investigation for campaign contribution fraud). These outfits supply placards, transportation, and protesters’ stipends for what amounts to an “astroturf” (fake grassroots) spectacle.

MolotovCocktail says

Local runs on local taxes, police, fire, etc... they can't bloat since they don't have money to do that.

But federal runs on deficits. So I don't agree with that at all. Federal needs to be trimmed a lot instead. Thousands of agencies and departments no one can explain why they even exist of what they do, but they do exist, that needs to go.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15319619/DOGE-shuts-Elon-Musk-Trump-White-House.html

DOGE quietly shuts down way ahead of schedule just days after Elon Musk reunited with Trump at White House

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which once stormed federal agencies with sweeping cuts and headline-grabbing stunts, has now effectively ceased to exist. ...

The fading away of DOGE is in sharp contrast to the government-wide effort over months to draw attention to it, with Trump, his advisers and cabinet secretaries posting about it on social media.

Musk, who led DOGE initially, regularly touted its work on his X platform and at one point brandished a chainsaw to advertise his efforts to cut government jobs. ...

Trump administration officials have not openly said that DOGE no longer exists, even after Musk's public feud with Trump in May. Musk has since left Washington.

Trump and his team have nevertheless signaled its demise in public since this summer, even though the president signed an executive order earlier in his term decreeing that DOGE would last through July 2026.

What happened? Was DOGE too effective, causing a lot of political problems?

Patrick says

What happened? Was DOGE too effective, causing a lot of political problems?

I wouldn't count on anything being correct from daily mail. It's a news and fake news circle jerk fest with Royalist propaganda dressing.

I thought I just read something where Elon posted that DOGE is ongoing, albeit lower profile. Can't remember where, no link.

Apparently someone under Trump moved it into various other agencies, where agency heads are doing the cleaning now.

https://x.com/DOGE/status/1993103250153738718

As an addendum, it is forecast to be 5.1% of GDP in 2026.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump's pledge to slash the government's size but which critics say delivered few measurable savings.

"That doesn't exist," Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE's status.

So we'll never learn
the name of that "166 yo SS recipient", lol.