DOGE Cuts 300000 Jobs and Cancels Thousands of Contracts Yet Federal Spending Rises 6 Percent

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, promised to slash trillions from the federal budget, but recent revelations show it's struggling to deliver beyond the memes. According to The Independent, DOGE operatives like Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh, young private equity and startup veterans with no government experience, embedded in agencies like the National Endowment for the Humanities. They axed over 1,400 grants worth tens of millions, using ChatGPT prompts to flag anything tied to DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—based on Trump's executive order. Fox admitted in depositions that a Black civil rights documentary or Holocaust project on Jewish women's labor smelled like DEI because they focused on "specific groups," even fumbling definitions when pressed. Fortune reports DOGE made 29,000 cuts last year, firing 300,000 workers and canceling 13,440 contracts, yet federal spending rose nearly 6% to $7.558 trillion, per Brookings data. Cavanaugh shrugged off regrets in testimony, insisting deficit reduction from $2 trillion "to close to zero" justified it, but admitted they failed. Economists at Cato and Yale warn replacements via contractors and lost IRS audit revenue could cost billions more, ballooning the $38 trillion debt. Is DOGE thinking working? Critics like the Modern Language Association call it haphazard, undermining research and arts. Supporters see it as a bold start against waste. Meanwhile, the crypto Dogecoin—DOGE's meme twin—surged 6% today to $0.10, with whales scooping 470 million tokens and active addresses up 176%, per NewsBTC analyst Ali Martinez. Perhaps the real efficiency is in the blockchain. Listeners, thanks for tuning in—subscribe for more. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.