Elon Musk's DOGE Gutted Federal Agencies, Cancelled Major Programs -- But Federal Spending Still Went UP: Report

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Source: MEDIAite

Dec 23rd, 2025, 7:13 pm


Back in February, Elon Musk infamously waved around a chainsaw onstage at CPAC as his Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, kicked off its activities, but a new report by The New York Times has revealed that while the agency did fire lots of federal workers, slash budgets, and cancel grants and programs, the end result not only didn’t save the $1 trillion Musk promised — federal spending actually went up.

According to the report by Times reporters Emily Badger, David A. Fahrenthold, Alicia Parlapiano, and Margot Sanger-Katz, DOGE claimed it “made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government — slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of grants and pushing out civil servants,” but nonetheless failed to keep Musk’s promise that it would “reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October.”

To the contrary, “[o]n DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all,” the Times reported, citing data collected by the Treasury Department. “It went up.”

There were multiple causes for this, according to the Times analysis, chiefly that “[m]any of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned out to be wrong.” The Times reporters reviewed DOGE’s list of dozens of contracts and grants it said had been cancelled.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/elon-musks-doge-gutted-federal-agencies-cancelled-major-programs-but-federal-spending-still-went-up-report/

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Link to NYT article - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html?smid=tw-share

[exboyfil]

1. Vaporware

Musk and Trump - Two carnival hucksters

[groundloop]

2. Just a guess - no bid sweetheart contracts to tRump's friends

[gab13by13]

4. Not just friends, to his kids.

[gab13by13]

3. Krasnov is pilfering our treasury,

Remember when he said he wanted a sovereign wealth fund, well he has one. I'm guessing that's where his tariff money goes.

[Efilroft Sul]

9. He thinks he is the sovereign, and we're all funding his wealth.

[travelingthrulife]

15. We have to seize his assets and his kids assets, especially his sleazy son-in-law.

Do we have the courage to treat these criminals as criminals.

[Lovie777]

5. Billionaires came out on top................

pushing everyone downward..........

and to think people actually voted for this.

[raccoon]

6. Hmm. Wonder how that happened?

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Armored BMWs don't grow on trees.

The Golden Fleet of Putin Class battle wagons ain’t cheap…

[FalloutShelter]

8. It's a HEIST.

[surfered]

10. And after all the lawsuits will end up costing more than any savings, plus we lost knowledge and expertise in the

Federal workforce.

[paleotn]

11. Seems tech bros and their toadies can't count.

But that didn't matter. The whole thing was just shit fodder for the Trump rubes. A tool to express their cruelty that accomplished little else.

[GiqueCee]

12. Another pathological liar...

... doing Putin's bidding. Quelle surprise!

[2naSalit]

13. ...

[travelingthrulife]

14. Yes. We knew this while it was happening. Where were you, NYT?

[travelingthrulife]

16. They spent far more than they cut. They had to hire back staff, spend tons of our money of court filings.

Stupid people.

[Javaman]

17. up or in their pockets? nt

[RussBLib]

18. Musk is an inveterate liar like Trump

The Musk-bros around these parts (deep South Texas) are just insufferable. So many posts on Facebook praising that spoiled liar and fawning over every statement. Meanwhile, he is destroying a once-beautiful pristine habitat. It's really sad.

The Mars Cult is growing.