Co-President Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity has added a bunch of ineffective information to its web site after being referred to as out for not being clear concerning the cuts the unelected billionaire is unilaterally making an attempt to make to the federal authorities.
“Actually, our actions—we put up our actions to the DOGE deal with on X and to the DOGE web site. So all of our actions are maximally clear. Actually, I don’t suppose there’s been—I don’t know of a case the place a company has been extra clear than the DOGE group,” Musk mentioned.
That assertion was a flat-out lie. On the time Musk made that remark, the DOGE web site had zero details about the cuts it had made. It was only a black background with the ridiculous DOGE emblem that mentioned “The people voted for major reform.”
Musk has additionally refused to make his monetary disclosures public, so Individuals don’t know what sort of private stake the richest man on the planet has within the choices he’s making within the authorities.
What’s extra, he’s even threatened to prosecute individuals who revealed who’s working for Musk at DOGE, falsely claiming it was a criminal offense to report on who authorities staff are. A lot for Musk’s dedication to free speech.
Worst of all, most of the cuts Musk and DOGE wrote about on X—the disinformation website referred to as Twitter earlier than Musk purchased it and drove it into the bottom—had been primarily based on lies.
For instance, Musk falsely claimed that the US Company for Worldwide Growth despatched $50 million value of condoms to Gaza.
“Tip of iceberg,” Musk wrote in a put up on X of the alleged finances outlay, including, “My guess is that a lot of that money ended up in the pockets [of] Hamas, not actually condoms.”
However no condoms had been despatched to Gaza. As an alternative, they had been despatched to the Gaza province in Mozambique, the place USAID was making an attempt to battle the unfold of HIV.
“Some of the things I say will be incorrect and should be corrected,” Musk mentioned. “Nobody is going to bat 1,000. We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”
“This is basically the whole DOGE scam: misread a spreadsheet, make no effort to understand the actual purpose of the program, and proceed to torch it on twitter. Rinse, wash, repeat,” Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees Worldwide, mentioned in a put up on X.
After Musk was ridiculed on X about his transparency declare, DOGE’s web site was miraculously up to date to incorporate extra information.
Nonetheless, the “savings” tab on the web site now results in a one-sentence notice that claims, “Receipts coming soon, no later than Valentine’s day” together with an emoji coronary heart. So an important info—what the advisory fee is slicing—is nowhere to be discovered
The remainder of the data on the web site incorporates completely no related or helpful info.
The “Workforce” tab says what number of federal staff there are and the way a lot their whole wages value per yr.
However that does not give any details about what sort of jobs they’re doing, or how important these jobs are to the perform of the federal government. Bloomberg Legislation reported that throughout the board cuts would hobble sure important authorities features which can be already dealing with employees shortages, comparable to meals and drug security inspectors, scientists to evaluate chemical ranges within the air and water, and officers to approve patents.
DOGE additionally created a “Regulations” tab on the location, which incorporates an “Unconstitutionality Index” to indicate the “number of agency rules created by unelected bureaucrats for each law passed by Congress.”
It’s ironic that DOGE makes use of the time period “unelected bureaucrats,” as that’s precisely what Musk and his group of racist and unqualified DOGE bros are as they attempt to take an ax to federal spending.
In that very same tab, the DOGE bros then listing the variety of phrases in the entire rules per company—as if that has any bearing into whether or not a regulation is nice or unhealthy.
For instance, it says the American Battle Monuments Fee has greater than 12,000 phrases in 50 sections of regulation. The American Battle Monuments Fee, created in 1923, is the “guardian of America’s overseas commemorative cemeteries and memorials”—such because the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery the place WWI troopers are buried and the Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial, each in France, the place troopers killed in WWII are buried. Apparently DOGE thinks the rules relating to how these monuments and memorials are maintained are unhealthy as a result of they comprise too many phrases.
The web site additionally now hyperlinks to the chief order Donald Trump signed that created the ridiculous DOGE fee. That govt order has 658 phrases.
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