Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE, meant to cut waste, is under fire for high taxpayer-funded salaries.

DOGE staffers like Jeremy Lewin ($167K), Kyle Schutt ($195K), and Nate Cavanaugh ($120K) earn six figures, contradicting Musk’s claim that compensation is “zero.”

Despite DOGE boasting billions in savings, reports show exaggerations and corrections. The agency’s budget has hit $40 million, but funding sources remain unclear.

While DOGE was promised to be “maximum transparent,” spending details remain undisclosed, raising concerns about its true effectiveness.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3010 days ago

    Saving money isn’t going to happen.

    The government will pay more to a company that will pay contractors less.

    All the bullshit about privatization streamlining anything is such a fucking joke.

    It’s just adding useless middle men who take a cut, but that’s how our economy is set up. Those middle men do zero work and make the most money. And they’re gonna do everything they can to keep it that way.

  • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    219 days ago

    It was pretty funny at that town hall when that woman said that fElon gets paid millions a day from We The People after the GOP bot tried that “fElon is working for free, you guyzzzz!” garbage.

    • snooggums
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      69 days ago

      Yeah, wish the news would say ‘claims is about waste’ instead of treating it as true.

  • TrackinDaKraken
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    59 days ago

    If the filthy rich know anything, it’s that quashing one’s personal morals takes money.