DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say | Musk allies spin DOGE as having a “higher purpose” beyond federal budget cuts

“We don’t want reason. We just want you to tell us what we want to hear…”

~Musk/Trump Cucks.

They accessed and cross referenced all the datat across federal agencies. They have a copy of that data and the source code for the agencies systems. That was always the purpose. they have easily cross referenced extortion material on many powerful Americans and indeed many international people and governments of consequence.

That’s why it ended so abruptly, they had the info they needed so they stopped cold. It was never about savings or efficiency.

Some of the many issues:

>Determining how “successful” Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) truly was depends on who you ask, but it’s increasingly hard to claim that DOGE made any sizable dent in federal spending, which was its primary goal.
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>Just two weeks ago, Musk himself notably downplayed DOGE as only being “a little bit successful” on a podcast, marking one of the first times that Musk admitted DOGE didn’t live up to its promise. Then, more recently, on Monday, Musk revived evidence-free claims he made while campaigning for Donald Trump, insisting that government fraud remained vast and unchecked, seemingly despite DOGE’s efforts. On X, he estimated that “my lower bound guess for how much fraud there is nationally is [about 20 percent] of the Federal budget, which would mean $1.5 trillion per year. Probably much higher.”
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>When Musk first proposed DOGE, he was on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, vowing to help end government waste and fraud. At an October 2024 rally, Musk claimed DOGE could save the federal government “at least $2 trillion,” The Guardian reported. But immediately after Trump’s inauguration, he slashed his goal in half, vowing to cut $1 trillion in government waste from the federal budget. Later, as DOGE efforts faced immediate backlash, the goal was reduced again, this time to a much more modest $150 billion, the Cato Institute reported.
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>In reality, The Guardian reported, “much of what the agency has done remains a mystery.” Although Musk promised DOGE would be transparent, the government has impeded lawsuits seeking discovery documents to create paper trails on DOGE cuts. And DOGE’s cost-cutting tracker on its website can’t be trusted, The Guardian reported, as it contains “egregious errors” and DOGE’s accounting methods are unreliable.
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>Even setting aside that the tracker and “wall of receipts” are likely “overblown,” The Guardian noted, DOGE claims to have cut about $214 billion in government spending and saved about $61 billion in cancelled contracts—far from reaching Musk’s extreme waste estimates. Meanwhile, Democrats investigating DOGE reported in July that the agency “may have caused around $21.7 billion in waste.” As to DOGE slashing about nine percent of the federal workforce, the Cato Institute estimated that it may have triggered more costly federal contracts, perhaps increasing costs and possibly degrading services down the road.
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>The bottom line is that government spending increased under DOGE, and there was no noticeable impact on the month-to-month budget after DOGE cuts began, the Cato Institute reported. “The federal government spent $7.6 trillion in the first 11 months of calendar year 2025, approximately $248 billion higher by November of 2025 compared to the same month in 2024,” its report said.
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>While Musk continues to fixate on fraud in the federal budget, his allies in government and Silicon Valley have begun spinning anyone criticizing DOGE’s failure to hit the promised target as missing the “higher purpose” of DOGE, The Guardian reported.
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>Five allies granted anonymity to discuss DOGE’s goals told The Guardian that the point of DOGE was to “fundamentally” reform government by eradicating “taboos” around hiring and firing, “expanding the use of untested technologies, and lowering resistance to boundary-pushing start-ups seeking federal contracts.” Now, the federal government can operate more like a company, Musk’s allies said.
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>The libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, did celebrate DOGE for producing “the largest peacetime workforce cut on record,” even while acknowledging that DOGE had little impact on federal spending.
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>“It is important to note that DOGE’s target was to reduce the budget in absolute real terms without reference to a baseline projection. DOGE did not cut spending by either standard,” the Cato Institute reported.
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>Although the Cato Institute joined allies praising DOGE’s dramatic shrinking of the federal workforce, the director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution, Elaine Kamarck, told Ars in November that DOGE “cut muscle, not fat” because “they didn’t really know what they were doing.”

It’s not surprising that the rhetoric around DOGE was overblown. Overpromising, underdelivering, and then changing the goalposts is pretty much the MO of Elon and his collaborators and supporters these days. That being said, there’s no denying that they have caused havoc to departments across the government through their ill-informed cuts, and consequently have hindered the government’s ability to deliver programs and services while at the same time seriously eroding the privacy of every American.

“We didn’t find the main thing we advertised finding. But, hey, least Musk ended all investigations against himself and his companies. So…you know, go DOGE!!” /s

Yes, because its intended purpose was *always* to derail the investigations into Musk’s unethical work and end the offices of the inspectors general. 

I’d say it was 100% effective. 

So, when you’re caught with your pants down, you just redefine the narrative???

How stupid do they think we are

The most “successful” people in the world are successful because they are rich enough to claim victory even during obvious massive failures and outright fraud.

Yeah… as in stealing social security data, laundering money and disassembling government’s IT security measures.

Fuck Musk, his allies and his supporters.

That higher purpose, of course, was to defraud the government, end investigations into his companies and steal the data of millions of Americans.

Higher purpose of stealing government data. Mission accomplished.

“Kung Fu Elon” the pedophile.

One of the biggest “well no shit, Sherlock” moments of the whole year. His entire higher purpose was to send in a squad of broccoli-headed dinks to steal American data, damage infrastructure, and eliminate oversight and regulation (especially against him personally) so it’ll be easier to sell and manipulate data in the future.

And he got away with it. For now at least. 

Among other things, I’m sure all the federal investigation materials related to Elon and his companies disappeared without a trace. The SEC, FTC, FAA, NLRB, OSHA, FCC, FDA, DOD, EPA, USAID, and the DOJ were all on his ass before the regime took office.

I know no one wants to entertain the notion of election interference/fraud in the 2024 race. But, you have to admit, Trump and Elon *needed* to win. Both were facing prison and/or financial ruin if the Dems remained in office. I can’t imagine they would risk leaving it to chance.

It did have a higher purpose, which is reduction in government oversight and degradation of mission to better allow oligarchs to oligarch. Miller and Vought carry on that mission.

So it’s basically a religion based on faith alone, no evidence at all. So in the same category as trickle down (horse and sparrow) economics.

Yep,

1 they were placing back doors on all OUR personal data held by the govt – an immensely valuable trove of data for nation states and businesses.

2. He destroyed programs that benefited poors which were cost neutral due to fines they imposed on rule breakers (CFPB, EPA, etc)

3. He destroyed evidence the govt had on his dirty business dealings like the fact Teslas are 2x more likely to be fatal than all other auto manufacturers.

Lastly, he’s a nazi. You don’t really need any other reasons beyond his dual nazi salutes.

Imagine believing that they found $2T in fraud and didn’t prosecute a single person for it.

Republican voters are such fools.

Dismantling USAID was the crime of the century.

Like killing high speed internet projects in rural communities to push more business to Starlink?

Right.

That higher purpose? Data theft, which they were 100% successful. That and quashing investigations/investigators looking into Musk’s systematic malpractices at his numerous companies

**edit**: forgot to include the part about installing backdoors on every critical system they raided

Data exfiltration via tinyballs and his friend.

Its just so hypocritical coming from him. No one would know who the fuck Musk is if it weren’t for Government subsidies.

Data theft and embezzlement?