DOGE touts savings after VA eliminates $380K a month for 'minor website modifications' (TNND) — The Department of Government Efficiency said a roughly $380,000 monthly contract for "minor website modifications" at the Department of Veterans Affairs has been eliminated and replaced with about 10 hours of labor a week from a VA staffer. DOGE says it has saved taxpayers $140 billion so far by canceling costly government contracts, selling assets, fighting fraud, stopping grants, making changes to programs, layoffs and more. But VA, which has the fifth-highest spending among federal agencies, ranks near the bottom of an "agency efficiency leaderboard," according to DOGE. VA announced in early March that it was terminating nearly 600 contracts that were duplicative or weren’t mission-critical, saving about $1.8 billion.
Leave it to Faux News to just spit out whatever DOhhhhhhhhhhGe says without any digging in to it at all.
That DOhhhGe provided. Do you not understand digging into it? Going beyond what someone said. Real journalism, not regurgitation.
Quick Answer: There was no fraud. Calling government programs that MAGA does not like "fraud" does not make them fraud. It's amusing to see the MAGA crowd whining like little biatches after they lose their jobs, their farms, their benefits, and declare personal bankruptcy due to Trump's policies -- after they loudly cheered him on. MAGA activists are asking why no 'arrests' have been made over fraud sniffed out by DOGE https://www.rawstory.com/why-no-arrests-doge-maga/
Yet DOGE was incapable of finding this waste or stopping any of these spending contracts --- some of which are still open. It took an outside group, Open the Books (OTB), to outline these purchases and question if they are appropriate. Once again demonstrating DOGE is worthless in finding waste.
Let's mention three things: Unemployment claims are handled by the states, not the federal government. The "initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020" information Musk is referencing states very directly in the text that the data is incomplete in regards to details on birth dates, etc. The nonsense Musk is pushing about this unemployment claims data has already been debunked. Just like his claims that millions of people who are 150 years old are collecting Social Security have been debunked. DOGE reveals bizarre findings of unemployment insurance claims survey: 'This is so crazy' 'I had to read it several times before it sank in," Elon Musk noted https://www.foxnews.com/politics/do...loyment-insurance-claims-survey-this-so-crazy
Look who is getting audited. The GAO will certainly find that DOGE is a complete waste of money and time. Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘auditors’ finally getting audited by federal Government Accountability Office https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...overnment-accountability-office-b2730692.html
DOGE Is About to Get DOGE’d An audit of DOGE’s handling of data at federal agencies is reportedly underway. https://gizmodo.com/the-government-accountability-office-is-doge-ing-doge-2000587264