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NewYork Times Fact-Check causes DOGE to quietly remove their Egregious Error-riddled "Savings" Items [1]
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Date: 2025-02-25
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It seems that Fact-Checking the DOGE unabashed Liars CAN make a difference ...
DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week
NYTimes, David A. Fahrenthold, Aatish Bhatia, Margot Sanger-Katz, Emily Badger, Ethan Singer and Josh Katz — Feb. 25, 2025
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Now the organization [DOGE], which is also known as the U.S. DOGE Service, has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.
[...] These were the original five largest savings on its list: An $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The actual contract in question was worth $8 million. The mistake seemed to stem from an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database. But contracting experts said that the service should have known better: ICE’s entire budget is about $8 billion, making it implausible that one contract could be so large. The U.S. DOGE Service adjusted the figure on the site after The Times wrote about it, and said in a post on Mr. Musk’s X platform that it had “always used the correct $8M in its calculations.”
Three $655 million cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. This was actually a single cut that was erroneously counted three times, as first reported by CBS News. That mistake also seemed to reflect a misunderstanding of the way government contracts work; they sometimes have “ceiling values” far in excess of what will be spent. Experts said this cancellation was unlikely to produce anything close to $655 million in savings even once. Now, the site lists a much smaller savings for these three cancellations: $18 million in total.
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. Some of the new canceled contracts added this week appear to make some of the same types of errors.
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It’s still an ongoing American Tragedy though — that even after the publication of these Fact Checks, and the silent retractions by the DOGE Liars — that the mouth-piece amplifiers of the Original Lies (Fox News and others), have failed to correct their own propaganda repetition of those DOGE intentional deceptions. Nor have they bothered to explain to their gullible audiences — the utter INCOMPETENCE of the DOGE Team; nor WHY they have ever been granted/coerced the near limitless powers, that they have no constitutional right to wield.
Power that they now freely abuse — to the detriment of unseen thousands of our fellow citizens.
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PS. I just saw this story discussed on Deadline White House, with one of the reporters of the above story (David Fahrenthold), and thought I would pass it along. FWIW
Note: Surprisingly the Title Link (above) passes through without a paywall tollgate, which could be due to it being provided by a Google News search(?) That, or even the NY Times now realizes what dire dangers DOGE represents to American values and our constitutional system of Government — and they want to do their part to keep even non-paying people informed, about this on-going Trump-train-wreck.
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