How Elon Musk's DOGE cost cuts don't make sense: Report [View all]

Source: The Independent

Mary Papenfuss in San Francisco • Thursday 06 March 2025 03:58 GMT

If Elon Musk fired every single federal worker his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would only save a quarter of the money he promised to save and would amount to a piddling 4 percent of annual federal spending, according to a new report.

That doesn’t even count the massive $36 trillion U.S. debt.

Musk, meanwhile, is maneuvering for an additional $2.4 billion federal contract for his SpaceX company. And some members of his crew of DOGE workers are reportedly collecting six-figure salaries funded by American taxpayers as they slash an estimated tens of thousands of federal jobs for others.

A New York Times podcast has mocked Musk’s antics as the “useless spending cut theater of DOGE.”

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