President John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg has as soon as once more taken to social media to criticize the Trump administration—this time taking purpose at Elon Musk’s so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity.
“If DOGE has found all this FRAUD and MONEY — then WHY: 1) no one charged with fraud? 2) govt spending has increased? 3) no distribution of savings? MAYBE — it’s a propaganda / data initiative that has nothing to do [with] the stated mission,” he wrote on X on Sunday.
All good questions, and one may definitely argue that DOGE’s lack of receipts has been a evident purple flag for the reason that starting of Musk’s authorities seize.
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Journalist Judd Legum created a Musk Watch DOGE Tracker to catalogue the supposed “savings,” and shock! Solely $7.7 billion of DOGE’s claimed $115 billion in financial savings has been not less than partially verified.
Equally, regardless of quite a few reviews displaying little proof of fraud, Musk has asserted that anybody complaining about not receiving their Social Safety advantages is probably going a “fraudster.”
Schlossberg can be appropriate about authorities spending. The Congressional Price range Workplace’s February Month-to-month Price range Overview confirmed a rise in authorities spending since Musk and DOGE illegally took over.
On the identical time, DOGE has decimated vital authorities companies, harming the U.S. workforce and army households whereas promising to chop funding to analysis for childhood most cancers and infectious ailments.
Contemplating the dearth of proof that DOGE has made any vital financial savings, mixed with the abundance of proof that Musk has compromised People’ non-public knowledge and profitable contract knowledge—which he has been feeding into AI studying fashions—Schlossberg has some extent.
Now if solely lawmakers would begin listening to it.
