Why did DOGE fail?

[ttwtt78640]

Future budgets trim a trillion dollars from Medicaid over the next decade.

Rest assured that annual federal Medicaid spending will continue to increase. Keep in mind that reductions in ‘normal’ spending increases are considered to be spending cuts by the CBO.

BTW, $1T over a decade is only $100B/year - more than $100B in annual spending was added by the BBB for this year.

 

[trixare4kids]

It hasn't failed. You have it wrong.

No, it hasn't failed. You are correct.

That's why the left is bitching so much about budget cuts.

The realized outcomes for DOGE depend on congress and agencies acting on DOGE's recommendations. There are also legal challenges. Make no mistake about it, highlighting government waste and bloat and attempting to eliminate it is a win for the taxpayer. Making government more efficient should now be considered a public policy.

 

[antiquity]

The damage from DOGE is real, but ultimately the ostensible project of saving trillions and "fixing" the budget or making government operate for efficiently has been a dismal failure. It's been a good six months since the DOGE reign of terror kicked off in earnest and two months since Musk himself was booted, so perhaps it's time to reflect on what went so horribly wrong.

Why did DOGE fail so spectacularly?

I guess we can ask all the federal agencies and workers who no longer have a job saving the American tax payer millions if it failed.

 

[ElChupacabra]

It hasn't failed. You have it wrong.

That's why the left is bitching so much about budget cuts.

Well, it has since there's no evidence of "government efficiency" as a result of the cuts. Cutting for the sake of cutting is dumb if one doesn't measure the impacts of those cuts. What's been comical about DoGE is they haven't even been able to properly account for their own supposed findings of "inefficiencies" given their numerous retractions and revisions.

 

[Peter]

Mainly because it was done in a rush by the guy who's famous for firing a whole bunch of his employees who he then had to rehire when he realised they were crucial.

Musk was the last person I'd put on a job like this.
What you needed was someone who could surgically look at the government as see where cuts can be made and what you got was a hatchetman who just hacked away at everying he could see regardless of if it made sense.

Pure idiocy of the highest order.

 

[antiquity]

Well, it has since there's no evidence of "government efficiency" as a result of the cuts. Cutting for the sake of cutting is dumb if one doesn't measure the impacts of those cuts. What's been comical about DoGE is they haven't even been able to properly account for their own supposed findings of "inefficiencies" given their numerous retractions and revisions.

If you ran a business with two more employees then you needed....would you lay them off? Or just sit them down somewhere in back room and take their pay as a write off?

 

[ttwtt78640]

I guess we can ask all the federal agencies and workers who no longer have a job saving the American tax payer millions if it failed.

Saving “millions” is relatively minor considering continuous annual federal “budget” deficits (amounts beyond total federal revenue) of about $2T.

 

[lwf]

No, it hasn't failed. You are correct.

The realized outcomes for DOGE depend on congress and agencies acting on DOGE's recommendations. There are also legal challenges. Make no mistake about it, highlighting government waste and bloat and attempting to eliminate it is a win for the taxpayer. Making government more efficient should now be considered a public policy.

What is the metric by which you are measuring government efficiency, and how has it changed?

 

[Airyaman]

I guess we can ask all the federal agencies and workers who no longer have a job saving the American tax payer millions if it failed.

Millions.

Great.

How long will those millions make up for the $21B they wasted?

DOGE Is Accused of Wasting $21.7 Billion in Just 6 Months

Here are five takeaways from Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal's new 54-page report accusing DOGE of waste.

www.inc.com

 

[trixare4kids]

Mainly because it was done in a rush by the guy who's famous for firing a whole bunch of his employees who he then had to rehire when he realised they were crucial.

Musk was the last person I'd put on a job like this.
What you needed was someone who could surgically look at the government as see where cuts can be made and what you got was a hatchetman who just hacked away at everying he could see regardless of if it made sense.

Pure idiocy of the highest order.

US Presidents have the power to hire and fire at will.

 

[roberthughey]

DOGE has brought a laser focus on excesses of government that are more than just waste and fraud.

 

[aociswundumho]

Doge got rid of about a quarter million worthless government drones who were being paid by us to do things that make us worse off. That's a W, not an L.

 

[Lycanthrope]

It didn't fail. This is exactly what Trump wanted. It ended programs Maga doesnt like.

And funnelled the "savings" to himself and the monied elites.

 

[pedex]

Nobody wants to sacrifice their free ride and slush money.

 

[HumblePi]

The damage from DOGE is real, but ultimately the ostensible project of saving trillions and "fixing" the budget or making government operate for efficiently has been a dismal failure. It's been a good six months since the DOGE reign of terror kicked off in earnest and two months since Musk himself was booted, so perhaps it's time to reflect on what went so horribly wrong.

Why did DOGE fail so spectacularly?

Did DOGE fail? It depends on the outcomes. DOGE endangered the privacy of American citizens, created security vulnerabilities, the massive firings of essential government workers may result in our country being less prepared for emergencies, less prepared to uncover possible terrorist attacks on our infrastructure or communications systems which would disable public and government functions.

 

[The AntiDonald]

Future budgets trim a trillion dollars from Medicaid over the next decade.

Yes, they do. While at the same time adding Trillions more to the debt. Why did congress raise the debt ceiling by $4.5 Trillion if they ever had any intent on reducing our debt?

 

[roberthughey]

Yes, they do. While at the same time adding Trillions more to the debt. Why did congress raise the debt ceiling by $4.5 Trillion if they ever had any intent on reducing our debt?

We ran a budget deficit of nearly 1.8 trillion in 2024.
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Of course we are adding trillions to the deficit in the coming years.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Musk's overarching goal was to whack/dilute all federal agencies that had any regulatory say in how his many companies operate.

No DOGE employess had any expertise in government, nor in the federal agencies they were instructed to gut.

They were "pink-slip" assassins, and the Republican Congress looked the other way.

 

[Rogue Valley]

We ran a budget deficit of nearly 1.8 trillion in 2024.

Trump added $7.8 trillion to the federal debt/deficit during Trump 1, and has already added another $3 trillion to the federal deficit while barely 6 months into Trump 2.

Under Donald Trump's Watch, the National Debt Increased by $7.8 Trillion

Trump promised to "get rid" of the national debt during his 2016 presidential campaign.

www.newsweek.com

CBO Estimates $3 Trillion of Debt from House-Passed OBBBA | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

2025-06-04-The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated cost estimate for the House-passed

www.crfb.org

 

[StillBallin75]

To claim that it "failed" is to presume that its mission was ever honest in the first place, which anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew it wasn't.

 

[BabaVoss]

DOGE was an illegal and ill-considered PR stunt by Trump.
There was never any plan to improve efficiency.
No in the trump admin one ever did any work in that regard.
They fired a lot of people, caused a lot of legal wrangling - which makes lawyers happy - and disrupted and derailed a lot of critical government programs and offices that US citizens depend on.
Their lives will get worse, and the cost of all this stupidity will be felt for decades.

Trump has no idea what the hell he is doing.

Trump hasn’t fixed anything, he’s just made a lot of noise and caused a lot of damage. But he HAS lined his pockets st the expense of the US taxpayer. The guy is very good at that. Not much else.

 

[Revelation]

No, it hasn't failed. You are correct.

yes.

Dark Maga has NOT failed.

they first must eliminate government at all levels, bankrupting our government is the fastest way to accomplish that.

next you are served a Huge Helping of neo Dark Maga fascism. catch the details everywhere friends: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=dark+maga+technocracy&ia=web

The realized outcomes for DOGE depend on congress and agencies acting on DOGE's recommendations. There are also legal challenges. Make no mistake about it, highlighting government waste and bloat and attempting to eliminate it is a win for the taxpayer.

Making government more efficient should now be considered a public policy.

Trix, you need to understand the End Game. you are so 1980's.

6 days to go.

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[roberthughey]

Trump added $7.8 trillion to the federal debt/deficit during Trump 1, and has already added another $3 trillion to the federal deficit while barely 6 months into Trump 2.

Under Donald Trump's Watch, the National Debt Increased by $7.8 Trillion

Trump promised to "get rid" of the national debt during his 2016 presidential campaign.

www.newsweek.com

CBO Estimates $3 Trillion of Debt from House-Passed OBBBA | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

2025-06-04-The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an updated cost estimate for the House-passed

www.crfb.org

The last 4 budget years 2022-2025 total debt accumulated will be around 6.75 trillion.

There is no pandemic spending in these last 4 years.

Emergency pandemic spending in 2020 and 2021 was around 4.5 trillion dollars.

USAspending.gov

www.usaspending.gov

US Fiscal Deficit by Year (2001–2025): Key Insights and Trends

Explore the US fiscal deficit by year (2001–2025) with clear, year-by-year data on federal revenue, spending, and annual shortfalls.

economicsinsider.com

 

[Str8shooter]

The damage from DOGE is real, but ultimately the ostensible project of saving trillions and "fixing" the budget or making government operate for efficiently has been a dismal failure. It's been a good six months since the DOGE reign of terror kicked off in earnest and two months since Musk himself was booted, so perhaps it's time to reflect on what went so horribly wrong.

Why did DOGE fail so spectacularly?

Has DOGE failed? Trump has been in office 7 months.

 

[Mycroft]

The damage from DOGE is real, but ultimately the ostensible project of saving trillions and "fixing" the budget or making government operate for efficiently has been a dismal failure. It's been a good six months since the DOGE reign of terror kicked off in earnest and two months since Musk himself was booted, so perhaps it's time to reflect on what went so horribly wrong.

Why did DOGE fail so spectacularly?

What makes you think it failed?

Are you pretending not to know about all the waste, fraud and abuse they've identified so far? Are you pretending not to know that one of the biggest sources of waste, fraud and abuse got shut down? (USAID) Are you pretending not to know that opponents of DOGE have been filing lawsuit after lawsuit in courts with crooked judges who do nothing other than issue "temporary injunctions" to get in the way of the work being done to reduce waste, fraud and abuse? And, are you pretending not to know that DOGE has almost a year longer to do their work?

If you would not pretend not to know things, you would know that DOGE has not failed.