1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

What is being done to extricate DOGE from our federal systems? Musk once promised taxpayers massive savings and even teased the idea of a “DOGE dividend” check in their mailboxes when his DOGE was unleashed on the federal government. Now, he admits DOGE is likely to save only $150 billion. But once those savings are analyzed and corrected for errors, they actually amount to just $36 billion. For fun, let’s entertain Musk’s imaginary $150 billion figure. That’s only 15% of the $1 trillion he initially pledged, less than 8% of the $2 trillion he later promised, and a mere fraction of the nearly $7 trillion the federal government spent in 2024. And now, federal spending is on track to rise even higher in 2025 just like Trump’s first term, when he racked up the largest deficit increase of any president over four years(even before covid19). It all makes more sense when you realize DOGE was never about saving Americans money. It was about gaining access to your data and building a weaponized political machine to use against the public. DOGE needs to go.