DOGE’s Zombie Contracts: They Were Killed but Have Come Back to Life (1 Viewer)

[jpn]

At least 44 of the government contracts canceled on the orders of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative have been resurrected by federal agencies, wiping out more than $220 million of his group’s purported savings, according to a New York Times analysis of federal spending data.​

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But Mr. Musk’s group continues to list 43 of those contracts as “terminations” on its website, which it calls the “Wall of Receipts.” The group even added some of them days or weeks after they had been resurrected. The result was another in a series of data errors on the website that made the group seem more successful in reducing government costs than it had been.​

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Their reversals raise broader questions about how many of the Musk group’s deep but hasty budget cuts will be rolled back over time, eroding its long-term effect on bureaucracy and governing in Washington.​

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I figure most of them. Musk found out that there is far less WF&A in government than he believed.

Also, it's interesting that Musk's "computer geniuses" apparently couldn't organize the items on their "Wall of Receipts" in any kind of order. So when I first viewed it, of course I clicked on the column headings to organize them.

They aren't coded to do that.

I tried to search for an item, but there's no search feature.

I clicked on the main categories on their "Leader Board," thinking that would filter for that department. Nothing.

It's almost like they don't want you to be able to use their product in any useful way.

It's almost like it's only for show.

 

[BitterPill]

At least 44 of the government contracts canceled on the orders of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative have been resurrected by federal agencies, wiping out more than $220 million of his group’s purported savings, according to a New York Times analysis of federal spending data.​

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But Mr. Musk’s group continues to list 43 of those contracts as “terminations” on its website, which it calls the “Wall of Receipts.” The group even added some of them days or weeks after they had been resurrected. The result was another in a series of data errors on the website that made the group seem more successful in reducing government costs than it had been.​

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Their reversals raise broader questions about how many of the Musk group’s deep but hasty budget cuts will be rolled back over time, eroding its long-term effect on bureaucracy and governing in Washington.​

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I figure most of them. Musk found out that there is far less WF&A in government than he believed.

Also, it's interesting that Musk's "computer geniuses" apparently couldn't organize the items on their "Wall of Receipts" in any kind of order. So when I first viewed it, of course I clicked on the column headings to organize them.

They aren't coded to do that.

I tried to search for an item, but there's no search feature.

I clicked on the main categories on their "Leader Board," thinking that would filter for that department. Nothing.

It's almost like they don't want you to be able to use their product in any useful way.

It's almost like it's only for show.

Sadly, DOGE is rapidly losing its value as a distractive entity as the ridicule it receives mounts, and it has already purloined any data worth stealing from our government, so it should slowly sail off into obscurity.

MAGA.

 

[Ishm]

Sadly, DOGE is rapidly losing its value as a distractive entity as the ridicule it receives mounts, and it has already purloined any data worth stealing from our government, so it should slowly sail off into obscurity.

MAGA.

That is a highly un-maga thing to say. Hang your head in shame and say 20 "Heil Donalds" as punishment for your failings.

 

[Roadvirus]

That is a highly un-maga thing to say. Hang your head in shame and say 20 "Heil Donalds" as punishment for your failings.

Don't forget "And relinquish your MAGA hat!"

 

[Pyrite]

Sadly, DOGE is rapidly losing its value as a distractive entity as the ridicule it receives mounts, and it has already purloined any data worth stealing from our government, so it should slowly sail off into obscurity.

MAGA.

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I suspect this is one of the main reasons musk joined forces with trump and vance.