From: Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: WSJ finds Musketeers haven't found much! Re: Can Someone PLEASE Tell Me Why ANYONE Would Protest Against Stopping Government Waste?
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 23:35:40 -0700
Organization: 0002.0
Alan wrote:
> On 2025-02-11 13:05, AlleyCat wrote:
>>
>> RIGHT NOW: Democrats are marching in DC to protest DOGE's crackdown on
>> government waste.
> 'DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where.
>
> A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were
> overstated and âwokeâ cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total'
>
> <https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-doge-federal-savings-claims-783b9507>
heh heh and who is running the WSJ?
> Here are a couple of fun excerpts:
>
> 'The Trump administrationâs Department of Government Efficiency touts
> cuts of $55 billion in federal spending, often citing canceled DEI and
> climate contracts. However, a Wall Street Journal analysis of government
> contract data showed a much different picture: âWokeâ cuts were a tiny
> fraction of the total, and many claims of savings were overstated.
>
> While DOGE hasnât offered details about all of the stated savings, it
> has posted a list of more than 1,100 canceled contracts to its website.
> As of Friday, it said the savings from these contracts amounted to about
> $7 billion.
>
> The Journal analysis projects the actual savings could be closer to $2.6
> billion over the next year if spending levels remained constantâand
> about 2% of the funds would have gone to contracts related to DEI.'
>
>
>
> 'DOGE terminated more than 60 Health and Human Services contracts
> including a clinical evaluation of an Alzheimerâs and traumatic brain
> injury drug and a study of smokers with chronic lung disease. DOGE
> described these as âadministrative expenses.â '
>
>
>
> 'Many of the Education Departmentâs canceled contracts funded research
> on college costs, student career paths and early childhood development.
> DOGE said one $1.4 million contract funded âmailing and clerical
> operations.â The contract was used to mail surveys to respondents
> participating in studies and was nearly complete when canceled, creating
> no savings for terminating it.'
>
>
>
> 'On Monday, DOGE posted its âwall of receiptsâ touting transparency,
> showing 1,127 contracts. But as the Journal and others raised questions
> about the figures, the tally of savings on DOGEâs website dwindled from
> $16 billion to about $7 billion.
>
> Two contracts also disappeared from the site Thursday because DOGE
> counted the same $665 million USAID contract three times, the Journal
> found.'
>
>
>
> 'Even as DOGE edited the numbers, the total savings listed on its site
> remained overstated, experts told the Journal. Agency contract amounts
> are often akin to credit card limits, said Deniece Peterson, senior
> director of federal market analysis at Deltek.
>
> âIf I have a credit card with a $30,000 limit and I have a $2,000
> balance and I cancel the credit card, Iâm not saving $28,000,â she said.
> âWhat Iâm seeing in many of these transactions is not savings.â'
>
>
>
> 'More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually
> already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. '