mesa@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoNearly $1 billion of DOGE ‘savings’ vanish overnightwww.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1521arrow-down15
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minus-squareRimu@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·7 days ago Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE, lowered expectations of the group’s savings from $1 trillion to $150 billion by the end of the fiscal year. So, a failure even on their own terms.
minus-squareRekhyt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-26 days agoThe original goal was 2 trillion. It’s less than 1% of the original goal now. Edit: Less than 10% which is still pathetic, but this is why I shouldn’t do math in my head.
minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoMath doesn’t check out, but point stands.
So, a failure even on their own terms.
The original goal was 2 trillion. It’s less than 1% of the original goal now.
Edit: Less than 10% which is still pathetic, but this is why I shouldn’t do math in my head.
Math doesn’t check out, but point stands.