DOGE costing the taxpayers $135 billion

[Greenbeard]

D'oh! Not only is DOGE not saving any money thanks to its inexplicably terrible execution, it's actually costing the taxpayers money on net. No wonder the federal government is spending more today than it was under Biden.

What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too

The errors and obfuscations underlying DOGE’s claims of savings are well documented. Less known are the costs Mr. Musk incurred by taking what Mr. Trump called a “hatchet” to government and the resulting firings, agency lockouts and building seizures that mostly wound up in court.

The Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization that studies the federal work force, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year. At the Internal Revenue Service, a DOGE-driven exodus of 22,000 employees would cost about $8.5 billion in revenue in 2026 alone, according to figures from the Budget Lab at Yale University. The total number of departures is expected to be as many as 32,000.

Neither of these estimates includes the cost to taxpayers of defending DOGE’s moves in court. Of about 200 lawsuits and appeals related to Mr. Trump’s agenda, at least 30 implicate the department.

It's been a real clown show so far.

The mass buyout did not favor highly rated performers nor distinguish crucial jobs from nonessential ones, practices that guided furloughs during past government shutdowns. Consequently, the administration wound up trying to reverse an exodus of people in vital roles.

In mid-February, the Office of Personnel Management targeted all 220,000 of the federal government’s probationary employees, who are new or newly promoted professionals serving a one- to two-year trial period with fewer worker protections. They included a cadre of younger, tech-savvy professionals hired at great expense to replace a wave of baby boomer retirees. Hiring and training them cost about $10,000 for a clerical worker to more than $1 million for an elite spy.

For each probationary worker DOGE idled, the government lost thousands of dollars it spent on recruitment, hiring incentives, security clearances and training, an investment normally recouped over years of service. In one case, a fired probationary employee with the Department of Health and Human Services received a pay raise after she was reinstated and put on paid leave.

 

[1srelluc]

IMHO it's the Deal of the Day....They were mostly leftists that would have done much more damage to the country had they remained in .gov employ till they retired.

 

[Greenbeard]

IMHO it's the Deal of the Day....They were mostly leftists that would have done much more damage to the country had they remained in .gov employ till they retired.

When your kid is exposed to lead at school and the CDC's lead poisoning team shows up to help, not sure it matters what their politics are. But, no worries, they're all fired.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

When your kid is exposed to lead at school and the CDC's lead poisoning team shows up to help, not sure it matters what their politics are. But, no worries, they're all fired.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

www.cbsnews.com

Well that is a "timely" response to lead in public schools? Just another failed response by the worthless government that needs to be shutdown, fire all non essential personnel, then reopen with a mandate that the states do the work and the government stays the fuck out of the way.

 

[1srelluc]

When your kid is exposed to lead at school and the CDC's lead poisoning team shows up to help, not sure it matters what their politics are. But, no worries, they're all fired.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

www.cbsnews.com

Most states have a more powerful "EPA department" than the feds to handle lead contamination.....States need to get off the .gov tit and do their own work.....They were likely looking for the feds to do their job for them.....And pay for it too.

Come to that I'm not even sure what the fuckin' CDC has to do with lead contamination issues in the first place.

 

[Greenbeard]

Most states have a more powerful "EPA department" than the feds to handle lead contamination.....

All leftists!

 

[wamose]

DOGE was needed to identify our VERY 'deep state' and uncover the thievery and waste that they are perpetrating on our taxpayers. Most of DOGE's critics are either extremely stupid or a part of the robbing class, both worthy of ignoring. The future of our free country depends on what Trump is doing with trade and what DOGE is doing with efficiency and the elimination of waste. If they lose, we lose.

 

[Greenbeard]

The future of our free country depends on what Trump is doing with trade and what DOGE is doing with efficiency and the elimination of waste. If they lose, we lose.

Then it looks like we lost.

 

[wamose]

Then it looks like we lost.

You, my man, are obviously one who would not understand such things.

 

[JohnDB]

It's hit piece claims like this that are so ridiculous....
It's no wonder Democrats are at a all time low with favorability.

The premise so Ludacris so inane that it's a wonder how they got elected to begin with.

 

[Moonglow]

IMHO it's the Deal of the Day....They were mostly leftists that would have done much more damage to the country had they remained in .gov employ till they retired.

You may at any time prove what you say, but if you don't, we will just take a pass on your opinion.

 

[ozro]

When your kid is exposed to lead at school and the CDC's lead poisoning team shows up to help, not sure it matters what their politics are. But, no worries, they're all fired.

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

www.cbsnews.com

Please educate us on what these "experts" are going to do AFTER kids are exposed to lead.

If your kids are exposed to lead, it means the experts failed at their job in the first place.

 

[Moonglow]

All leftists!

Feel free to actually prove yer statement.

 

[Greenbeard]

If your kids are exposed to lead, it means the experts failed at their job in the first place.

I suspect building schools in Wisconsin didn't fall under the CDC lead poisoning team's responsibilities.

 

[ozro]

I suspect building schools in Wisconsin didn't fall under the CDC lead poisoning team's responsibilities.

?

 

[Mac1958]

D'oh! Not only is DOGE not saving any money thanks to its inexplicably terrible execution, it's actually costing the taxpayers money on net. No wonder the federal government is spending more today than it was under Biden.

What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too


It's been a real clown show so far.

Musk prancing around a stage, waving a fucking chainsaw, is pretty much the symbol of this thing.

Yes, it’s always good to make government as efficient as possible. But no, not like this. Not like a caveman.

 

[MarathonMike]

D'oh! Not only is DOGE not saving any money thanks to its inexplicably terrible execution, it's actually costing the taxpayers money on net. No wonder the federal government is spending more today than it was under Biden.

What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too


It's been a real clown show so far.

Classic Voodoo economics from Big Govt Democrats. We are too believe that keeping redundant workers on the taxpayers payroll and then rewarding them with a LIFETIME PENSION is good for taxpayers. What do you want, the Federal Govt to continue expanding sucking up an ever larger piece of the revenue pie? DOGE is the ONLY CHANCE we have of righting the ship.

 

[Greenbeard]

DOGE is the ONLY CHANCE we have of righting the ship.

DOGE has already failed and Elmo is slinking away to try and save his sinking car company.

 

[MarathonMike]

DOGE has already failed and Elmo is slinking away to try and save his sinking car company.

DOGE is 3 months into a 2 year planned overhaul of our government. I realize you Democrats always want instant gratification, but that is not the real world.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

IMHO it's the Deal of the Day....They were mostly leftists that would have done much more damage to the country had they remained in .gov employ till they retired.

Another Trump regime failure.