Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk's Damage

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Federal agencies scrambled to bring back over $220 million worth of contracts after Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency cancelled them, The New York Times reports.

However, of those 44 contracts that were cancelled and eventually reinstated, DOGE is still citing all but one of them as examples of the government spending the group supposedly saved on its website's error-plagued "Wall of Receipts." The White House told the NYT that this is "paperwork lag" that will be fixed.

Clerical errors or not, the "zombie contracts" are a damning sign of the chaos sowed by the billionaire's hasty and sweeping cost-cutting that would seem antithetical to its stated goals of efficiency.

"They should have used a scalpel," Rachel Dinkes of the Knowledge Alliance, an association of education companies that includes one that lost a contract, told the NYT. "But instead they went in with an axe and chopped it all down."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/government-furiously-trying-undo-elon-130018753.html

Musk is stuck in the K hole.

[Johonny]

1. Doge hasnt saved any money

And the costs to repair the damage done just starting to be paid. Oh, and here comes the GOPs bankrupt America tax plan.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes I keep asking how much money will the DOGE "savings" end up costing?

Taxpayers paid to destroy the govt.
Then will have to pay to repair it.
And also Americans will pay because of the lack of safety net.

[ananda]

8. And that would be all Americans, no exceptions...

along with many in other places as well.

[ReRe]

10. And how many taxpayers will pay with their lives? eom

[Irish_Dem]

12. Yes. There will be deaths, illness, injury.

Also financial pain.

[KentuckyWoman]

11. Follow the money.

It has always been all about the grift with this bunch.

[msongs]

2. preferable to substitute the word republicans for doge and musk. identify the actual offending party nt

[BOSSHOG]

3. Hear Hear My Friend

Republicans own every bad ounce of the tons of conservative shit generated in less than four months. And yes indeed magas, that’s what you voted for. You are the reason trump says he loves stupid people.

[BidenRocks]

5. A Chainsaw nt

[Figarosmom]

6. There would be no " paperwork lag"

If they had the proper number of employees to run the place.

[pfitz59]

7. Musk should be held accountable

and be forced to cover all costs putting the people and pieces back in place.

[Marie Marie]

9. And then when he is all paid up, cancel all of his government contracts and deport his ass back to Africa

(or El Salvador - I hear it is beautiful this time of year.)

[pat_k]

13. Let's be clear. They are hellbent on destroying ...

... every executive agency and every apparatus by which the will of We the People is measured or implemented. To say they "should have" done this or that is a tactic acceptance of the big lie. They are doing precisely what they intend to do: make law irrelevant by destroying the means to execute. And they will keep violating the constitution and the law to dismantle science, education, public health, and every other institution these radical reactionaries view as enemies of the tyrannical aspirations of the insane coalition of megalomaniac billionaires, Christian Nationalists, White Supremicist, xenophobes, and the masses they spent billions -- probably trillions -- to brainwash into supporting them.