Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency deleted over 30 different government contracts from its website’s “Wall of Receipts” this week after a New York Times investigation found them to still be active.

The Times found 44 contracts that DOGE had claimed to end, but were still active.

The 44 contracts accounted for some $220 million of federal spending Musk’s team claimed it had saved.

In late April, the Partnership for Public Service (PSP) found that from the $160 billion DOGE had claimed to save the federal government, some additional $130 billion would need to be spent for paid leave, re-hiring mistakenly fired workers, and lost productivity.

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      21 hours ago

      Jeez, now the US is gonna have even more white supremacists on welfare. Good luck with that, I guess.

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        Eh, they’ll just become part of the background noise in the US, but South Africa being rid of them might improve things over there.

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        That’s the point…they aren’t citizens, they are employees who will be trained in warfare.

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      trump is quite easy to convince, he probably reminds trump he has to pay back the almost 300mil he spent on him.