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DEI must die: All federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be fired!

Government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

The President signed an executive order last Tuesday for agencies to work with DOGE to make “preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force.”

More firings are on the way: The Pentagon announced Friday its plans to fire 5,400 employees, and other agencies have also indicated they’re continuing to look for cuts.

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure. The woke must go.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 says

Doge does not work like the federal government you are used to. Musk runs SpaceX. He has companies hiring thousands of rocket engineers dealing with operations more exacting and demanding than handling air traffic at airports.

Then why is DOGE so inaccurate and sloppy??? Why doesn't Musk wait until he has all the facts instead of publishing tons of errors?? DOGE's error rate makes it a completely unreliable source. Here's just a handful of examples.

Musk's DOGE touted slashing an $8 billion contract. It actually cut $8 million.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/19/doge-said-it-cut-8-billion-contract-8-million/79176949007/

The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.

David Reid, an environmental scientist in Michigan, was surprised to learn his contract studying invasive species in the St. Lawrence Seaway was included on the list. “That contract wasn’t canceled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. The contract expired on Dec. 31 and he decided to retire and not renew it, he said. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.”

A report by CBS News this week found another type of error involving this kind of contract: The group had triple-counted the $655 million maximum value of one contract for U.S.A.I.D. with numerous sub-contracts.

In another case, DOGE claimed $232 million in savings on a contract providing information technology support to the Social Security Administration. But The Intercept reported that only a sliver of the contract was canceled — a program to let users mark their gender as “X” — bringing the actual savings closer to $560,000.

The “wall of receipts” also lists hundreds of cases in which — even by the website’s own accounting — the changes saved taxpayers nothing. In one contract, the Securities and Exchange Commission had agreed to spend $10 million for a five-year subscription to the legal-research site Westlaw. But the savings are listed as $0. The S.E.C.’s contract expired in March 2024.

The group also claims unrealistic estimates from several special kinds of umbrella contracts. When the government expects many different offices may want ongoing orders of the same general product or service — say, I.T. — it creates an overall contracting mechanism with a set ceiling under which several pre-vetted vendors can compete for individual orders. Each of those individual orders represents money the government has committed to spend. But the ceiling on the whole umbrella doesn’t.

“It’s not real money,” said Kelly Saldana, who spent nearly two decades working at U.S.A.I.D., including as the director of its office of health systems. If one of these larger contracts has a ceiling of $100 million and there’s only one $10 million order under it, the remaining $90 million isn’t savings or money that could be spent elsewhere.

UPDATE

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

Also

Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.

The Department of Government Efficiency, run by Trump adviser Elon Musk, published an updated list Monday of nearly 2,300 contracts that agencies terminated in recent weeks across the federal government. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues

They why is DOGE so inaccurate and sloppy??? Why doesn't Musk wait until he has all the facts instead of publishing tons of errors?? DOGE's error rate makes it a completely unreliable source. Here's just a handful of examples.

If Doge is making errors as alleged, then it will be held to account for those mistakes. Calm down, Elwood. Let Doge do its job instead of jumping in the moment your pockets are searched. Let the cops check things out. Protesting now is incriminating the guilty.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 Why not hold DOGE to account NOW?? Why wait??

Let the cops check things out.

DUUUDE!!! DOGE IS "the cops." They're claiming to police the rest of government and they're CLEARLY doing a sloppy erroneous job!!

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues

DUUUDE!!! DOGE IS "the cops." They're claiming to police the rest of government and they're CLEARLY doing a sloppy erroneous job!!

You are telling me that Musk is screwing up, Elwood. That guy has made $300 billion to become the richest man in the world. What's wrong with you?

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

- $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes

- $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon

- $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq

- Sending Ukranians to Paris Fashion Week

- $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become climate leaders

- $15 million for 'contraceptives and condoms’ in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan

$45 million scholarship program for students in Burma.

$25,000 award entitled “Empowering LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece”

– $10M for “Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision”

– $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills”

– $2.3M for “strengthening independent voices in Cambodia”

– $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre

– $40M for “gender equality and women empowerment hub”

– $14M for “improving public procurement” in Serbia

– $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for
“inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India

– $29M to “strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh”

– $20M for “fiscal federalism” in Nepal

– $19M for “biodiversity conversation” in Nepal

– $1.5M for “voter confidence” in Liberia

– $14M for “social cohesion” in Mali

– $2.5M for “inclusive democracies in Southern Africa”

– $47M for “improving learning outcomes in Asia”

– $2M to develop “sustainable recycling models” to “increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized
communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt”

ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 Look at the facts.

DOGE's error rate makes it a completely unreliable source. Here's just a handful of examples.

Musk's DOGE touted slashing an $8 billion contract. It actually cut $8 million.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”

$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland

$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam

$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia

$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru

$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala

$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt

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ElwoodBlues · M

@Reason10 I'M laughing because you can't produce a counter-argument🤣😂 You KNOW DOGE's work is riddled with errors, and your only response is logical fallacies!!

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues So you are saying the gubberment is perfect and without fault, eh? Try selling that bridge somewhere else, it's not flying here

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 So you are saying DOGE's work is perfect and without fault, eh? Try selling that bridge somewhere else, it's not flying here. Oh, wait, bridges don't fly, ijit🤣😂

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues Don't you have some transgender comic books to distribute?

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 So you are saying DOGE's work is perfect and without fault, eh? Try selling that bridge somewhere else, it's not flying here. Oh, wait, bridges don't fly, ijit🤣😂

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues Aren't you supposed to be at the transgender opera?

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 So you are saying DOGE's work is perfect and without fault, eh? Try selling that bridge somewhere else, it's not flying here. Oh, wait, bridges don't fly, ijit🤣😂

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues Are you saying ALL OF GOVERNMENT is perfect and without fault? That's what the politburo of the goose stepping left is trying to shove down our throats.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Reason10 asks

Are you saying ALL OF GOVERNMENT is perfect and without fault?

Not by any means. I'm just saying Musks reports are riddled with errors. We both know you can't launch rockets riddled with errors. We both know Musk can hold his people to a very high standard of quality.

So the facts posted above beg the question: Why is Musk doing such shoddy work "auditing" the government?? We both know he can do much better, so why isn't he???

Musk’s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/musk-doge-savings-website

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

https://southfloridareporter.com/doge-quietly-deletes-the-5-biggest-spending-cuts-it-celebrated-last-week/

No savings expected from nearly 40% of DOGE-canceled contracts

https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/no-savings-expected-from-nearly-40-of-doge-canceled-contracts/

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues Not by any means. I'm just saying Musks reports are riddled with errors. We both know you can't launch rockets riddled with errors. We both know Musk can hold his people to a very high standard of
First of all, you Nazis have done NOTHING but LIE about Musk's work. Your sources might as well be THESE farting cows.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Reason10 You have no evidence? Good to know.

I'm saying Musks reports are riddled with errors. We both know you can't launch rockets riddled with errors. We both know Musk can hold his people to a very high standard of quality.

So the facts posted above beg the question: Why is Musk doing such shoddy work "auditing" the government?? We both know he can do much better, so why isn't he???

Musk’s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/musk-doge-savings-website

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

https://southfloridareporter.com/doge-quietly-deletes-the-5-biggest-spending-cuts-it-celebrated-last-week/

No savings expected from nearly 40% of DOGE-canceled contracts

https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/no-savings-expected-from-nearly-40-of-doge-canceled-contracts/

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues