The Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) offered an replace to one of many greatest scams uncovered by Elon Musk’s group on Wednesday night.
DOGE says it has saved roughly $105 billion in a “mixture of asset gross sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper cost deletion, grant cancellations, curiosity financial savings,” and different workforce reductions.
The Democrats are offended that DOGE is saving American taxpayers cash, in order that they devised a scheme to cease Elon Musk and his group.
There are at the moment practically a dozen lawsuits difficult DOGE over its authority, information entry, and privateness legal guidelines.
There’s additionally a secret resistance settlement between 14 states to conduct coordinated lawfare towards DOGE and Elon Musk.
DOGE just lately introduced that it had already deactivated 200,000 authorities bank cards in 16 companies.
Nonetheless, there are a complete of 4.6 million energetic bank cards/accounts!
On Wednesday evening DOGE mentioned this system to audit unused/unneeded bank cards has been expanded to 32 companies!
“After 10 weeks, greater than 500K playing cards have been de-activated,” DOGE mentioned.
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This system to audit unused/unneeded bank cards has been expanded to 32 companies. After 10 weeks, greater than 500K playing cards have been de-activated.
As a reminder, initially of the audit, there have been ~4.6M energetic playing cards/accounts, so nonetheless extra work to do. pic.twitter.com/apdJuMFaNR
— Division of Authorities Effectivity (@DOGE) Could 7, 2025
In March, Elon Musk mentioned DOGE “discovered twice as many bank cards as there are people. And these are playing cards with $10,000 per 30 days limits! That’s some huge cash!”
“What’s the waste-to-fraud ratio? In my view, it’s 80% waste, 20% fraud,” Elon Musk mentioned.
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“Most of what DOGE is discovering, you don’t must be Sherlock Holmes. It’s very apparent, primary stuff,” @elonmusk mentioned
“We discovered TWICE as many bank cards as there are people. And these are playing cards with $10K per… pic.twitter.com/2bnMZbPGi7
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 17, 2025