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Joshua Smith
@smithmachine.bsky.social

The Government Accountability Office, the actual professionals trying to root our government waste, is out with a 52-page report cataloging methodological errors and data limitations with DOGE's "Wall of Receipts." (I bet this was fun for them to write.)

gao.govU.S. GAO - DOGE Wall of Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from Contract, Grant, and Lease TerminationsThe President established the Department of Government Efficiency to transform federal spending. DOGE instructed agencies to review federal contracts...

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Katie Cannon
@katiecannon.bsky.social

Musk understands that our government creates our currency using a computer keyboard to mark up private bank accounts It wasn’t about fraud or anything else It was to consolidate the computers that make payments Which he did

Realbutterplease
@growseedsman.bsky.social

“For grants, DOGE did not provide sufficient information to verify the method used to calculate 96 percent of DOGE-reported savings.” The math: $2 trillion/ $110 billion* = 5.5%. * Fake maximum claimed by DOGE. Verifiable savings: $4.58 billion GAO: 3 times states DOGE didn’t respond for comment.