According to DOGE:
> $105 billion in savings represent a combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.
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CLAIMED savings. There is no evidence presented that it’s anywhere close to that. Their “wall of receipts” only shows about $20b last I checked and many of those have been discredited.
I lowkey love this visualisation because at first glance I thought that the red part of the top bar was their claimed savings, while the green part would be the new budget. That’s kind of how they sell the idea.
In reality, even their claimed savings are so tiny, you can barely see the bar in the thumbnail, and the real savings are truly meaningless.
Meaningless financially of course, not meaningless in terms of negative real world impact.
After 4 years they’re bound to reach half… Unless you count how the government will barely function and no one will get paid. And that’s before you look at the economy
Canada offer grants on a MRAP deal. Grants… offered them to choose the weapons upgrades to their MRAPs. Still money spent within Canada
The economic impact of mass firings is just going to wipe any savings off the map.
It’s kind of scary that Edolf with a chainsaw can only cut so little. I hate their method and style but I agree we need to balance the budget.
In a few months the government will have to refinance debt, the interest rates have gone up, and we will now pay over $1 trillion a year on interest payments.
In the past interest was much lower and the debt wasn’t a concern. We will now pay $1 trillion in interest on a $6.9 trillion budget. That’s 14% of the money you give to the government going to whoever loans them the money. This is not sustainable.
It’s barely been a month so not bad
So, approx 6% of the deficit.
The ‘Wall of Receipts,’ is turning out to be a big flaming turd. It’s like a CyberTruck with a battery fire..or a Starship that explodes in a million pieces above the Caribbean.
Lazy rage bait. Check in on this in a year. Neither for or against now but the government is slow and complex and evaluating after 1.5 months is bs
If 1 or 2 percent of federal spending can be changed from waste to value-added, that would be a huge win for DOGE and for Americans
Now do one with jobs lost and economic impacts
So where is the saving from stopping the transgender mice? /s
DOGE was never about saving money, it’s about wielding the government budget like a whip to punish anybody who doesn’t fall in line.
People should be using this graph and shitting themselves about the size of the deficit.
The budget is not sustainable.
Gonna pay off the deficit in no time. As in there’s no amount of time you could use to pay off anything
In fairness it’s only been 30 or so days. If you took that bar and multiplied it by 12 (ie 1 full year of them digging for savings), it would be decent size.
All of it is a farce. More than 60% of the budget is Social Security, Medicare, Military, and interest on the debt.Â
Cutting even 1% would be Herculean considering how much is basically untouchable.Â
Now do the costs of all that work not getting done.
OK, so if I extrapolate from this with as much rigor as you put into this comparison, then if they cut 105 billion in six weeks, by the end of the year they should be at around 900 billion, and reduce the deficit by half?
I think DOGE is a stupid publicity stunt (which will likely die because of a combination of legal challenges, bureaucratic inertia and an inevitable personality clash between two egomaniacs), but this is just clickbait garbage.
Figures don’t lie, but liers can figure
The stupid thing about these cuts is these are the minor spending amounts to make the rest of the budget and economy work. You can fire VA employees but you still need to process claims. You can fire cancer researchers but people still die of cancer.
No real person actually believes any of the bullshit DOGE says
I’d love to see this stacked up against the value that’s been wiped out since this tariff nonsense sent the economy into a nose dive.
*Claimed
(*made up)
Elon probably still thinks 150 year olds are getting SS checks.
Yeah we shouldn’t try to save money. Its too far gone!
Their 100 Billion is all lies and illegal activity (firing people illegally, defunding USAID).
They have to re-hire those people and give USAID the money appropriated by congress.
They save 20 million and then claim they saved 20 billion. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
So DOGE just cancelled Netflix, basically, in comparison. Cool.
Better than nothing though. not sure why people are against cutting fraud and waste. Most Americans want to cut it.
Everyone say it with me, loud so those in the back can hear: “This has nothing to do with saving money and it never has.”
If you still think it does, I’m sorry, but you’re the kind of rube Donald Trump has relied on his whole life in order to continue living his lie.
I wonder what the cost of DOGE is
Clever not to put the doge savings and deficit together and get rid of the green bar. I’d imagine it’s to make a point.
I’m happy with this performance. They must keep going. If I could vote for it 5 times, I would.
Cutting payroll isn’t proof of “savings” if there are clear and obvious costs from the payroll cut. Prove that you have cut fat not muscle.
Real cuts start with defense spending. Also, all cuts should be reflected in debt reduction not tax cuts.
So based on claims in 2 months they are 1/18th of the way to flipping the deficit……sounds pretty decent honestly.
Any dent in the deficit has to start somewhere, and it has to start by cutting spending. Government revenue is about 15-20% up for the last five years. The federal government has grown faster than the economy over the last 10 years. Federal spending is about 23-24% of GDP (it rose to 30% during COVID). The historical average is about 20-21%.
There are folks that think we can tax our way out. That isn’t a long-term solution. The growth of the government is expanding faster than the economy. You could raise taxes, but it would leave you in the same position in a few years unless growth is curbed. Governments have a habit of expanding because they discover new things that they need to do. For example regulating new or expanding industries. Think, A.I. or Fracking, the Internet etc. If we do not cut existing government programs, the government will keep expanding.
The deficit problems are compounded by interest rates. Current interest rates are higher than the majority of our current debt. As we have to refinance our debt at higher interest rate the payments will become higher, and the deficit will be even worse.
So, decisions need to be made about which programs have the most “bang for the buck”. There are many government programs that have some utility that will be cut, and sometimes that will result in some loss to revenue. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be considered.
Many of the existing cuts are also anticipating the impact of A.I. on the federal bureaucracy. We will need fewer I.R.S. agents because A.I. will be better at flagging suspicious tax documents for further review. Primitive version of these systems have been in place for awhile, but things are getting far better. The whole concept of adding 90,000 federal employees to an organization that will probably need none of them in ten years wasn’t a good idea. It might be revenue positive for a few years, but it wasn’t forward thinking about the country’s needs over the next 15-25 years.
While we can debate about the methods in which DOGE is making cuts, I don’t believe their is credible debate that major cuts are necessary.
I apologize for the long response, but I feel like the discourse on Reddit deeply misunderstands the necessity, of the situation, or believes since the problem cannot be solved in one big swing, it isn’t worth addressing.
This isn’t a partisan issue, it is an American issue.
We are not getting those $5k checks guys /s
It’s like a one-show-pony. All Elon knows is mass firings.
Instead, they could and should investigate Government Contractors like Halliburton, Tesla, SpaceX who probably overcharge the Government.
Oh wait…
What am I missing here?
shouldn’t the savings be compared to the DOGE’s lifespan?
4918/12 410
Which means the ratio is 410 to 105?
I’d live a budget included on this. What is (was?) healthcare, military, etc. so we can see how laughably sad terminating Medicare was compared to the rest.
The richest man in the world is going around firing people en masse to save pennies when his own wealth could cover it without him even feeling it
![[OC] US DOGE claimed savings compared to US Federal Government 2024 Budget](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1ip5xop0fene1-1920x1024.png)
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Data from [https://doge.gov/savings](https://doge.gov/savings) and [https://doge.gov/spend](https://doge.gov/spend) – March 05/2025
According to DOGE:
> $105 billion in savings represent a combination of asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions.
Made with Canva
CLAIMED savings. There is no evidence presented that it’s anywhere close to that. Their “wall of receipts” only shows about $20b last I checked and many of those have been discredited.
I lowkey love this visualisation because at first glance I thought that the red part of the top bar was their claimed savings, while the green part would be the new budget. That’s kind of how they sell the idea.
In reality, even their claimed savings are so tiny, you can barely see the bar in the thumbnail, and the real savings are truly meaningless.
Meaningless financially of course, not meaningless in terms of negative real world impact.
After 4 years they’re bound to reach half… Unless you count how the government will barely function and no one will get paid. And that’s before you look at the economy
Canada offer grants on a MRAP deal. Grants… offered them to choose the weapons upgrades to their MRAPs. Still money spent within Canada
The economic impact of mass firings is just going to wipe any savings off the map.
It’s kind of scary that Edolf with a chainsaw can only cut so little. I hate their method and style but I agree we need to balance the budget.
In a few months the government will have to refinance debt, the interest rates have gone up, and we will now pay over $1 trillion a year on interest payments.
In the past interest was much lower and the debt wasn’t a concern. We will now pay $1 trillion in interest on a $6.9 trillion budget. That’s 14% of the money you give to the government going to whoever loans them the money. This is not sustainable.
It’s barely been a month so not bad
So, approx 6% of the deficit.
The ‘Wall of Receipts,’ is turning out to be a big flaming turd. It’s like a CyberTruck with a battery fire..or a Starship that explodes in a million pieces above the Caribbean.
Lazy rage bait. Check in on this in a year. Neither for or against now but the government is slow and complex and evaluating after 1.5 months is bs
If 1 or 2 percent of federal spending can be changed from waste to value-added, that would be a huge win for DOGE and for Americans
Now do one with jobs lost and economic impacts
So where is the saving from stopping the transgender mice? /s
DOGE was never about saving money, it’s about wielding the government budget like a whip to punish anybody who doesn’t fall in line.
People should be using this graph and shitting themselves about the size of the deficit.
The budget is not sustainable.
Gonna pay off the deficit in no time. As in there’s no amount of time you could use to pay off anything
In fairness it’s only been 30 or so days. If you took that bar and multiplied it by 12 (ie 1 full year of them digging for savings), it would be decent size.
All of it is a farce. More than 60% of the budget is Social Security, Medicare, Military, and interest on the debt.Â
Cutting even 1% would be Herculean considering how much is basically untouchable.Â
Now do the costs of all that work not getting done.
OK, so if I extrapolate from this with as much rigor as you put into this comparison, then if they cut 105 billion in six weeks, by the end of the year they should be at around 900 billion, and reduce the deficit by half?
I think DOGE is a stupid publicity stunt (which will likely die because of a combination of legal challenges, bureaucratic inertia and an inevitable personality clash between two egomaniacs), but this is just clickbait garbage.
Figures don’t lie, but liers can figure
The stupid thing about these cuts is these are the minor spending amounts to make the rest of the budget and economy work. You can fire VA employees but you still need to process claims. You can fire cancer researchers but people still die of cancer.
No real person actually believes any of the bullshit DOGE says
I’d love to see this stacked up against the value that’s been wiped out since this tariff nonsense sent the economy into a nose dive.
*Claimed
(*made up)
Elon probably still thinks 150 year olds are getting SS checks.
Yeah we shouldn’t try to save money. Its too far gone!
Their 100 Billion is all lies and illegal activity (firing people illegally, defunding USAID).
They have to re-hire those people and give USAID the money appropriated by congress.
They save 20 million and then claim they saved 20 billion. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
So DOGE just cancelled Netflix, basically, in comparison. Cool.
Better than nothing though. not sure why people are against cutting fraud and waste. Most Americans want to cut it.
Everyone say it with me, loud so those in the back can hear: “This has nothing to do with saving money and it never has.”
If you still think it does, I’m sorry, but you’re the kind of rube Donald Trump has relied on his whole life in order to continue living his lie.
I wonder what the cost of DOGE is
Clever not to put the doge savings and deficit together and get rid of the green bar. I’d imagine it’s to make a point.
I’m happy with this performance. They must keep going. If I could vote for it 5 times, I would.
Cutting payroll isn’t proof of “savings” if there are clear and obvious costs from the payroll cut. Prove that you have cut fat not muscle.
Real cuts start with defense spending. Also, all cuts should be reflected in debt reduction not tax cuts.
So based on claims in 2 months they are 1/18th of the way to flipping the deficit……sounds pretty decent honestly.
Any dent in the deficit has to start somewhere, and it has to start by cutting spending. Government revenue is about 15-20% up for the last five years. The federal government has grown faster than the economy over the last 10 years. Federal spending is about 23-24% of GDP (it rose to 30% during COVID). The historical average is about 20-21%.
Source: [https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/government-revenue/](https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/government-revenue/)
There are folks that think we can tax our way out. That isn’t a long-term solution. The growth of the government is expanding faster than the economy. You could raise taxes, but it would leave you in the same position in a few years unless growth is curbed. Governments have a habit of expanding because they discover new things that they need to do. For example regulating new or expanding industries. Think, A.I. or Fracking, the Internet etc. If we do not cut existing government programs, the government will keep expanding.
The deficit problems are compounded by interest rates. Current interest rates are higher than the majority of our current debt. As we have to refinance our debt at higher interest rate the payments will become higher, and the deficit will be even worse.
So, decisions need to be made about which programs have the most “bang for the buck”. There are many government programs that have some utility that will be cut, and sometimes that will result in some loss to revenue. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be considered.
Many of the existing cuts are also anticipating the impact of A.I. on the federal bureaucracy. We will need fewer I.R.S. agents because A.I. will be better at flagging suspicious tax documents for further review. Primitive version of these systems have been in place for awhile, but things are getting far better. The whole concept of adding 90,000 federal employees to an organization that will probably need none of them in ten years wasn’t a good idea. It might be revenue positive for a few years, but it wasn’t forward thinking about the country’s needs over the next 15-25 years.
While we can debate about the methods in which DOGE is making cuts, I don’t believe their is credible debate that major cuts are necessary.
I apologize for the long response, but I feel like the discourse on Reddit deeply misunderstands the necessity, of the situation, or believes since the problem cannot be solved in one big swing, it isn’t worth addressing.
This isn’t a partisan issue, it is an American issue.
We are not getting those $5k checks guys /s
It’s like a one-show-pony. All Elon knows is mass firings.
Instead, they could and should investigate Government Contractors like Halliburton, Tesla, SpaceX who probably overcharge the Government.
Oh wait…
What am I missing here?
shouldn’t the savings be compared to the DOGE’s lifespan?
4918/12 410
Which means the ratio is 410 to 105?
I’d live a budget included on this. What is (was?) healthcare, military, etc. so we can see how laughably sad terminating Medicare was compared to the rest.
The richest man in the world is going around firing people en masse to save pennies when his own wealth could cover it without him even feeling it
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