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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8916211" data-attributes="member: 683408"><p>Speaking of fraud:</p><p></p><p>When <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk" target="_blank">Elon Musk</a> vowed late last year to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-appoints-elon-musk-government-efficiency-department" target="_blank">lead</a> a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/elon-musk-trump-doge" target="_blank">claimed</a> it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it set about saving $2tn worth of waste and exposing massive fraud.</p><p></p><p>Today, with Musk out of the White House, Doge having cut only a tiny fraction of the waste it promised, and dozens of lawsuits alleging violations of privacy and transparency laws, much of what the agency has done remains a mystery.</p><p></p><p>The effects of Doge’s initial blitz through the federal government – which included dismantling the US Agency for International Development (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usaid" target="_blank">USAID</a>), embedding staffers in almost every agency and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/elon-musk-doge-agency-illegal" target="_blank">illegally firing people en masse</a> – are still playing out. Contrary to Musk’s promises, Doge’s success is vague and tough to quantify. Measuring the full impact and determining <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/trump-musk-doge-reportedly-disbanded" target="_blank">whether the agency even exists</a> as a centralized entity anymore is difficult, complicated by an ongoing effort from the government to block disclosure of documents, which is itself a symptom of the chaos that the department created.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/elon-musk-doge-impact-us-government[/URL]</p><p></p><p>The crypto did about as well as the department named after it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]69760[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8916211, member: 683408"] Speaking of fraud: When [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/technology/elon-musk']Elon Musk[/URL] vowed late last year to [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-appoints-elon-musk-government-efficiency-department']lead[/URL] a “department of government efficiency” (Doge), he [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/elon-musk-trump-doge']claimed[/URL] it would operate with “maximum transparency” as it set about saving $2tn worth of waste and exposing massive fraud. Today, with Musk out of the White House, Doge having cut only a tiny fraction of the waste it promised, and dozens of lawsuits alleging violations of privacy and transparency laws, much of what the agency has done remains a mystery. The effects of Doge’s initial blitz through the federal government – which included dismantling the US Agency for International Development ([URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/usaid']USAID[/URL]), embedding staffers in almost every agency and [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/elon-musk-doge-agency-illegal']illegally firing people en masse[/URL] – are still playing out. Contrary to Musk’s promises, Doge’s success is vague and tough to quantify. Measuring the full impact and determining [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/trump-musk-doge-reportedly-disbanded']whether the agency even exists[/URL] as a centralized entity anymore is difficult, complicated by an ongoing effort from the government to block disclosure of documents, which is itself a symptom of the chaos that the department created. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/elon-musk-doge-impact-us-government[/URL] The crypto did about as well as the department named after it. [ATTACH type="full"]69760[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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