Elon Musk’s cost-cutting Monopoly appears to have a smaller impact than the world’s wealthiest people claim, and the review found that nearly 40% of federal contracts will save U.S. taxpayers , not a penny.
The Associated Press put a list of 1,125 federal government contracts under a microscope, Musk’s “government efficiency” (Doge) blows it away in the first month of the new Trump administration. The news agency found that 417 of these may not save for the federal budget.
Doge shows off chopped contracts on its “Wall of Receipts.” However, in many cases, the money has been spent, or is legally committed, to the point that it is too late and it is too late to recover the money.
“It’s like confiscating ammunition after there is no left over,” Charles Tiefer, an expert in government contract law, told the Associated Press.
The review is just the latest investigation that Musk’s alleged attempt to expose fraud and reduce waste has not benefited from it through the stampede of the federal department. One of the cancelled contracts is worth $8 billion on the “Wall of Receipts”, when the New York Times estimates it at $8 million.
Musk’s latest trick, requiring more than 2 million federal employees to list their five-week achievement list or facing sacking list, has caused chaos across the U.S. government. Several department heads selected by Trump publicly boycotted the move.
Kash Patel, who chose to serve as FBI director, directed all employees of the bureau to “stop any response to Musk’s statute.” But late Monday, the Governor Supreme insisted, telling federal employees that it would “cause termination” if they failed to respond to his request a second time.
Now, the federal judges are starting to ask awkward questions about whether Doge and whether Musk’s role in it is legal. During a lawsuit, federal judges expressed concern about the constitutionality of Doge’s “structure and operations” about whether Musk’s team should be allowed to use sensitive Treasury data.
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly noted that under the terms of the appointment of the U.S. Constitution, federal agencies are usually run by officials appointed by the president, but are confirmed by the Senate, which Musk does not have.
Judges about Musk’s role and the authoritative government lawyers that underpin it. Government attorney Bradley Humphreys replied that he had no information about the status of a billionaire, except that he was “close adviser to the president.”
