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Elon Musk and DOGE promised $2 trillion in savings. In reality, government spending is up. The Trump administration has reportedly spent more than 6 percent as the Biden administration during the ...
Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ...
DOGE stimulus check talks caught Americans' attention, but progress on the dividend seems to have stalled. Here's what to know and who would get one.
Earlier discussions of the stimulus checks said that the payments would be triggered when Trump’s Department of Government ...
If DOGE (or its successor) wants to truly save billions, it should come from cutting with a scalpel, not a machete. And there ...
Elon Musk seemed to lower DOGE's estimated savings by saying he anticipates $150 billion in cut "waste and fraud" in the next fiscal ... Musk talked about cutting $2 trillion from the government.
Despite Musk’s comments about the savings, The White House reportedly said DOGE’s target savings is still $1 trillion. Whether or not Musk is involved in the future cuts is also in doubt.
The checks, which Fishback estimated could be as much as $5,000, were based on Musk’s original $2 trillion estimate, however. Should DOGE eliminate just $150 billion in spending and, using the ...
Elon Musk first claimed the department would make savings of $2 trillion, but what do the figures really show?
For example, DOGE claims $31.8 billion in savings from cancelling or adjusting over 10,000 contracts. But the FT could only confirm reductions in around 6,700 of those cases.
To date, DOGE claims that it has saved the government about $180 billion by slashing the federal workforce, ending contracts, selling assets and cutting grant programs.
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp., has criticized Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk's recent push for $2 trillion in U.S. government budget cuts, focusing on the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for ...