[Elon Musk’s] DOGE team has since gone agency by agency, infiltrating sensitive IT networks
— including the Treasury Department’s centralized payments system — in the name of rooting out “waste, fraud and abuse.”
[T[he DOGE team’s credibility has repeatedly been undermined by mistakes, duplications and false assumptions uploaded — then quietly deleted — on its online “wall of receipts.”
“DOGE’s verified savings have been less than 1/10 of 1% of federal spending,” says Jessica Riedl, a senior fellow and budget expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute.
“There have been embarrassing accounting errors, lots of public statements that turned out to be false or misleading, or actions slapped back by the courts.”
Republicans have celebrated as DOGE has slashed wasteful contracts, canceled leases and fired unproductive employees. But its cuts to the IRS threaten to reverse any progress made on reducing the deficit.
“The spending savings are so small that they will be undoubtedly overwhelmed by the significant tax revenue losses which result from gutting IRS tax enforcement,” Riedl tells Axios.
“It makes a mockery of claims that DOGE is really just about cutting deficits.”
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