DOGE Is Bad at Math
By Chas Danner, Intelligencer
To its proponents, DOGE is supposed to be a crack team of high-IQ specialists assembled by über-successful billionaire Elon Musk to force tough-but-fair efficiency and cost cutting on the out-of-control federal bureaucracy. Musk and his associates are already working to gut the federal workforce as quickly and brutally as possible, including layoffs and lease cancellations, and he has said DOGE aims to somehow wipe out a whopping $2 trillion in federal spending. They even track their progress on an online wall of receipts, which lists the contracts they say they have successfully cut. One might assume that anyone working for something called the Department of Government Efficiency is some super-competent overachiever who is definitely good at working with numbers. Yet evidence continues to emerge that Team DOGE may actually suck at math and identifying savings.
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