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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — As Elon Musk and the Trump medication summation efforts to reduce the national authorities workforce, critics are voicing concerns implicit the chaotic and seemingly random cuts being made crossed Washington. However, immoderate Republicans reason this is what voters privation from the administration.
But arsenic the Department of Government Efficiency announces billions successful authorities fund cuts, the question remains: is it really redeeming arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic it claims?
Some of the items listed connected DOGE's nationalist listing of the billions of dollars successful purported savings don't look to adhd up arsenic the bureau suggests.
DOGE receipts aren't adding up
DOGE claims it has recovered $55 cardinal successful savings, touting layoffs, canceled contracts, lease renegotiations and fraud detection successful the archetypal period of the 2nd Trump administration. However, a person introspection of the numbers raises doubts astir these claims.
The website's listing mentions USAID and the Department of Education arsenic the 2 largest agencies contributing to declaration savings. It adjacent features a "wall of receipts" showing the reported spending slashes.
Despite claiming billions of dollars successful savings, DOGE has not provided grounds for astir $38 cardinal of that — astir 75% of its full claim.
For example, DOGE claims to person saved $8 cardinal by canceling a tech enactment declaration for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Diversity and Civil Rights. However, that declaration worth was worthy conscionable $8 million, with the $8 cardinal fig apt owed to a clerical mistake from erstwhile the authorities archetypal filed the contract.
Despite evident accounting issues, Republicans proceed to dependable their enactment for Musk and DOGE.
"I deliberation American voters similar the strength and absorption that they've seen from 30-some days of this medication — going astir doing the things they told voters they were going to do. Doing the things they were elected to do," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said connected "FOX News Sunday."
"When you're staring down $36 trillion successful indebtedness and counting, evidently thing has to give, and I deliberation that's what we're seeing close now. A broad forensic audit of each section and bureau successful the national government," Rep. Mike Lawler, R-NY, said connected ABC's "This Week."
DOGE has stated it volition update its savings website doubly a week, truthful corrections could beryllium forthcoming.
Poll: Just 37% of Americans think DOGE is cutting waste
Several caller polls suggest Americans are increasing uneasy astir DOGE and its results.
A canvass from Emerson College and the Washington Post shows much Americans disapprove of Musk's handling of DOGE. That's successful enactment with a Pew Research Center canvass that puts Musk's favorability standing astatine 42%.
The Washington Post recovered that conscionable 37% deliberation DOGE is cutting wasteful spending.
A Morning Consult Pro canvass shows that fig is adjacent lower, reporting that 31% deliberation shrinking the authorities should beryllium a apical precedence for the administration.
Musk, Trump float DOGE stimulus checks idea
However, that sentiment could alteration if the administration's projected program for DOGE stimulus checks becomes a reality.
The program claims to enactment arsenic overmuch arsenic 20% of immoderate the bureau cuts from the national fund straight into Americans' pockets.
