- Elon Musk seemed to greatly reduce the goal of saving in DogThe dropping of $ 150 billion for this year, which is less than its previous claims, trillion dollars. However, the questions about the savings that the team demands with critics remain referring to inflated numbers, the decline in claims, and a growing list of controversial cuts.
Elon Musk said Dodge It is greatly limited to its savings. At the cabinet meeting on Thursday, Musa told Trump that the group expects to reduce $ 150 billion in the federal budget during the fiscal year, which will continue from the beginning of October 2025 to the end of September 2026.
“I am excited to announce that we expect savings in the year 26 of reducing waste and fraud for $ 150 billion,” Musk Tell Trump at the meeting. The richest man in the world said these cuts “will actually lead to better services for the American people.”
Musk, who has emerged in the general face of the Dog team, had previously expected savings up to $ 1 trillion. Earlier, during the appearance of the Campaign’s path, MUSK released $ 2 trillion.
according to Dougiah, What contracts, grants, and rental contracts have been canceled and publicly displayed, and the team has already provided an estimated $ 150 billion. It is not clear whether Musk means saying that $ 150 billion was the ultimate goal or what the team has already found.
The White House did not respond immediately wealth Request to comment, however, an official said New York Times The number was 1 trillion dollars still the “target”.
Trump praised the team’s efforts during the cabinet meeting, and told Musk: “Your people are great. In fact, we hope that they will remain in the long run.”
The role of musk in the White House is scheduled to end in May. It has been classified as a private government employee and is close to the end of the 130th period in the federal government. The White House said that musk intends to leave when its time is running out.
Duwaj was full of mistakes
I have been plagued by Doge on Doga with errors and miscalculation, which makes it difficult to know if it is possible to trust $ 150 billion.
According to the DOGE website, savings are a mixture of “asset sales, cancellation/rental, re -negotiation, fraud, improper payment, abolition of grants, provision of benefits, software changes, organizational savings, and workforce discounts.”
However, the team deleted many contracts from the receipt wall after the reports were undermined some of their claims. In one case, Dog was forced to review her largest contract from 8 billion dollars to 8 million dollars after the contract sellerHe explained that 8 billion dollarsThe run -up to the purchasing record is likely to be written.
One of the largest savings highlighted on Doug’s “receipt wall” is No. 1.9 billion dollars, and is due to the cancellation of the Treasury contract with centenary techniques. However, the company previously told New York Times The deal was already canceled during the Biden Administration – to a large extent before the presence of Doug. After the media coverage, the savings demand was briefly lowered, according to ABC, but it has been re -appeared. (Celsius did not respond luckRequest to comment.)
In addition, DOGE employees removed more than 1,000 of the cancellation of the contract from their records last month, where they wiped about $ 4 billion of previously reported savings.
Musk claimed that Doge’s efforts are “transparent to the maximum”, but the team published only about a third of the discounts they made, making a more difficult analysis.
Some discounts in Dog and closure of agencies were controversial, such as the closing of the US Agency for International Development and the proposed changes to social security. Experts have warned that Dog’s plans for social security management are basically a “BackDoor” method to reduce payments.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
