[A]fter three full months of taking a chainsaw to the federal government, DOGE has reduced monthly federal expenditures by…sorry, I mean increased them by $27 billion compared to last year. Last month, our estimate of the number of years it would take to eradicate the deficit based on current DOGE progress was infinity years. This update leaves that estimate unchanged – at this rate, the deficit will never go away and will actually keep growing.
Just for kicks, let’s compare this to the monthly performance from the previous year, before DOGE was even a twinkle in Elon Musk’s eye, when the fight against fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government was being waged by boring, stuffy people like the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Inspectors General of the various federal departments rather than an allegedly ketamine-fueled technology visionary.
So in April of last year, federal spending increased year-over-year by 6%. In April of this year, after three full months of DOGE’s heroic efforts at slashing wasteful spending, it increased year-over-year by 5%. Is that what you were promised? Is that what you’re being told?
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