Federal auditors: DOGE is a data heist
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-...oge-elon-musk/
He's insured up the wazoo.
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He's the richest man in the world.
whoopsie, more "savings" just got stricken from the website
DOGE is a very unreliable tracker
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...ed-leases.html
Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-...tion=undefined
Daily Wire
".....What surprised me most about my FMCS investigation was what happened afterward: nothing. An inspector general made a referral to the FBI, but there were no prosecutions. Instead, President Barack Obama nominated a chief subject of the investigation to the top job.
A decade later, Trump has done what even the agency’s own employees said should happen: shut it down....."
Why didn't Trump shut it down during his first term
He was afraid you'd blow up the WH, or, saw his head off.
lol being afraid of Madonna and D-Lister Kathy Griffin
how puny and and cringing
Meanwhile, El0n/POTUS is running a protection racket on federal judges
Real consequences, Trumpies like violent threats to public officials and stir to official calumny.
The mainstreaming of political violence is just one of the Trumpy benchmarks
"....The Big Short’ investor who predicted the 2008 crash warns the market is ‘underestimating’ the economic impact of DOGE’s mass spending cuts.....
Moses argued investors are already beginning to see disruptions in consumer confidence—which last month saw its steepest drop in four years—and will continue to hear similar trends in upcoming earnings calls. These slowdowns have yet to be priced into the market, he said.
“It's not as simple as just, ‘We think there's fraud, let's cut waste, let's cut expenses,’” Moses told Fortune. “And it's not just about the federal workers, and it's not just about the expenses out of those programs. It's about the contracts with the private sector.”.......
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-s...181733029.html
No no that's too simple ^
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2719911.htmlIRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts at agency
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Taxpayer behavior has changed since President Donald Trump took office and implemented sweeping federal cuts through Elon Musk’s DOGE. As a result, the IRS has “noticed an uptick of online chatter from individuals declaring their intention to not pay taxes this year,” the Washington Post reports, citing three people with knowledge of tax projections.
It added that individuals were “wagering that auditors will not examine their accounts” amid DOGE’s plans to downsize the IRS by nearly 20 percent by May 15.
New hires in taxpayer services and enforcement divisions have been targeted and the agency has dropped investigations of high-value corporations and taxpayers, according to the newspaper. The agency employs roughly 90,000 workers total across the U.S., according to the IRS data.
Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the April 15 deadline in comparison to 2024 filings, which would amount to more than $500 billion in lost revenue, according to the Post. The newspaper said it spoke with officials who shared nonpublic IRS data.
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you can't balance the budget if you wreck the revenue side
Last edited by Winehole23; 03-23-2025 at 05:09 AM.
Fake news.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/tops...os/ar-AA1Bu1BETrump’s regulatory freeze throws US fishing industry into chaos
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America’s $320 billion fishing industry relies on a branch of the federal government, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to manage coastal fisheries. Under a 1976 law, NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service develops management plans for 45 fisheries, setting quotas and determining the start and close of fishing seasons, in consultation with federal government scientists and local fishermen.
Trump’s January 20 declaration of a 60-day freeze on regulations disrupted this process for several of those fisheries, delaying key meetings and causing confusion over the issuance of new rules, according to Reuters interviews.
The freeze allowed overfishing in waters off North Carolina of Atlantic bluefin tuna which could mean reduced quotas for New York and New England fishermen when the fish migrate further north this summer, according to a Massachusetts lawmaker as well as industry groups and the federal government employees.
"There's just a lot of confusion right now, both internal and external," said Ben Martens, executive director of the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association, an industry group. "I'm getting calls from fishermen asking what's going to happen."
Some 163 probationary employees - or about 5% of the NOAA workforce dealing with fisheries - were fired last month including administrative support staff, fish biologists and fisheries management specialists, a senior NOAA employee who was among those fired told Reuters. Those roles are involved in the regulatory process, from monitoring the health of stocks to consulting on regulations for annual catch.
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they're wrecking random valuable
feature, not a bug
grift and graft rush in
the whole point is to privatize the USG as much as possible and to raise the cost of the public good for everybody, so private leeches on Trumplandia's political patronage machine can optimize profit
70 year old woman manhandles a MAGA doofus waving a stun gun at "paid protesters"
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