LostInCalifornia on Nostr: I ran down a fact check this morning -- way too early but I have a doctor's later. ...
I ran down a fact check this morning -- way too early but I have a doctor's later. More than 2xs the number of federal employees leave each year than took the Musk buyout.
True. 200K usually leave, 75K decided to get paid for it.
And then there's the whole fraud thing.
"This has been the story of Trump’s broader efforts to overhaul the government: big, hyperbolic claims without much to back them up. Even if you expand the money supposedly being rooted out to include fraud and alleged waste, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler, notes that DOGE has publicly identified “only about $2 billion in annual savings from specific line items” — a tiny drop in the bucket."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-and-musk-can-t-seem-to-locate-much-evidence-of-fraud/ar-AA1yY4wV
True. 200K usually leave, 75K decided to get paid for it.
And then there's the whole fraud thing.
"This has been the story of Trump’s broader efforts to overhaul the government: big, hyperbolic claims without much to back them up. Even if you expand the money supposedly being rooted out to include fraud and alleged waste, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler, notes that DOGE has publicly identified “only about $2 billion in annual savings from specific line items” — a tiny drop in the bucket."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-and-musk-can-t-seem-to-locate-much-evidence-of-fraud/ar-AA1yY4wV