DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

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• Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s that crippling incompetence AOC called.

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• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m guessing it went like “Wait they’re needed for what!? Okay… rehire them, but don’t tell anybody.”

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These ones were just counting mistakes. They counted billion instead of million and counted a contract three times. The “oops, we need them after all” still needs to happen.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They have now also added a contact that Biden cancelled 6 months ago.

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  • alykanas@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Season 1 writes pretty much writes itself

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• 5oap10116@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t matter. They put the lie out there, sycophants and low info voters believe/see lie, media fact checks, sycophants and low info voters don’t believe/see fact check. Mission accomplished.

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• frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  These are some grade-A dolts running things over at the Department. It’s worth reading each instance where they lied, miscounted, misinterpreted, or all of the above. One of my faves:

  A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.

  He/him she/her they/them x/x? 🤔

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Someone please add the option to mark my gender as “the gender previously known as Twitter” since I cant mark it as X.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      twit/twat

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly though, why does adding a single option to a form cost half a million dollars?

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Potentially a bunch of follow up logic processes need to be modified as well. Gender is probably not one of the things that would have been dynamically processed in the past.

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know! Maybe we should open a department that monitors the efficiency of the governments expenditures 🤔

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• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Chainsaw austerity. Normal austerity can cost a country a decade or two of growth and they at least tried to not accidently cut anything too crucial.

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• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  C’mon guys they are called woopsies. You can start a totalitarian government without a few woopsies. Give them a break. They are grown men trying their best. Remember this is a guy that bought an entire social media platform just because everyone was dunking on him for being such a weird dork. Surely, he can fix 'merica right?

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• lorski@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because it is all a Doge & Pony Show. to distract us. All lies and subterfuge.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The firings and failures to pay money as required by law are unfortunately very real

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