DOGE Finds Zero Fraud, Waste, or Abuse, Just New Ways to Harm Veterans

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created under the guise of eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in federal spending. But, like many of Musk's grand pitches - Hyperloops, Mars colonization, Tesla robots, robotaxis, self-driving cars - DOGE is just another empty promise from one of the world's most practiced conmen.

In its supposed "savings" report, DOGE claimed to have
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- a small portion of of which came from
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. The rest? There aren't any real savings. All DOGE did was cancel government contracts. That's like deciding to stop paying your bills and mortgage to cover your credit card debt, only to realize your so-called "savings" won't even cover a single interest payment.

A common theme in the DOGE data is the cancellation of subscription-based services that federal congressional and public affairs offices rely on, such as newspapers with paywalls, Beltway tipsheets, and telephone and email directory systems. This move will only make the government less efficient and force those in these roles to spend more time tracking down news and contact information essential to their work. These contracts were all approved by the agencies with money allocated by Congress, who seems to have conceded more of their authority to Musk every day.

Worse, many of the canceled contracts were awarded to disabled and veteran-owned small businesses. Musk and Trump seem to have a particular knack for shortchanging veterans - even those who don't rely on care from the Department of Veterans Affairs or work for the federal government.
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, provided training for federal agencies. It was awarded to a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Minority-Owned Business Enterprise specializing in organizational and management consulting.

The contract, according to federal records, was for "DEIA program and project management support services" - a sin in Washington amid Trump's all-out war on diversity programs. The company, founded in 2008 by Marine Corps veteran Chris Gonzalez, now faces uncertainty due to these cuts.

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by DOGE and belonged to MIRACORP, INC., an all-woman, disabled veteran-owned business based in Mesa, Arizona. The company provides project management assistance for federal agencies - in this case, for the Green Proving Ground program, which reportedly helped the government
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on energy costs each year.

By ending this contract on a program that helped cut costs, you are supposed to believe the fiction that the government is actually saving money. These so-called DOGE "savings" do add up - at the expense of veterans.

The largest group affected by DOGE's cuts at the VA has naturally been veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.

It should come as no that, amid DOGE's
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, Musk has
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of his SpaceX company to the FAA to "help make air travel safer."

With DOGE
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, we can expect even more veteran- and disabled veteran-owned businesses, along with government contractors that compete with Musk's companies, to be cut. The Department of Defense is also one of the largest employers of veterans in the nation. DOGE firings are expected to start Wednesday. If DOGE does "audits," like they did at
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, we can expect more chaos.

As part of its "savings," DOGE also canceled
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, including a $27,000 annual lease in a property in Las Cruces, New Mexico, that housed the Las Cruces Vet Center. Vet Centers are vital components of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, established after the Vietnam War to provide veterans with a space outside traditional government facilities, helping them avoid the stigma associated with federal institutions at the time. These centers provide life-saving counseling services for veterans and their families - I have personally witnessed their staff intervene to prevent veteran suicide attempts.

The DOGE site claims this Vet Center is being relocated to a federal building, with the nearest major facility being over three hours away in Albuquerque, New Mexico. But, there is no word on where this Vet Center has gone, if it ever reopens. The Vet Center will still pay rent - the funds will now go to the U.S. General Services Administration instead of a private landlord, redirecting money away from the local economy of Las Cruces. The result? A grand total of $0 in taxpayer savings.

With little understanding of how the federal government operates, DOGE's actions are only setting the stage for further harm, as they arbitrarily cancel additional facilities - and especially as they gain access to the largest federal funding source, the Pentagon.

In claiming it's produced billions in savings, DOGE has taken credit for canceling contracts that were already mostly paid - exaggerating savings by counting unobligated funds as if they were guaranteed future expenses.

In some cases, it has inflated savings numbers by orders of magnitude,
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This isn't fiscal responsibility; it's an accounting gimmick designed to make the numbers sound good while veterans pay the price..

DOGE has uncovered no real waste or abuse - only contracts it could cancel to create the illusion of savings. The real cost falls on the veterans who rely on these services, the contracts that support them, and the businesses that employ them.
 

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Hey why all the doom and gloom guise, during this era of belt tightening President Musk was able to secure over a Billion Dollars in Government Contracts in the last couple weeks!

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Oh look! Pansy jack is defending waste, fraud and abuse.

Off course he is, because his betters tell him what to think.

I don't feel sorry for one single taxpayer parasite who now has to go find a real job instead of grifting from the taxpayers.

Further, the odds are very high that, like with Federal employees, over 90% of these people at NGOs and "non-profits" are Registered Democrat scum, so fuck them.
 

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Richest Person In the World Stops Aid To Poorest People in The World​

Imagine being the richest person on the planet and still being so deeply insecure that you spend your days surrounding yourself with
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breaking into the government like it’s a frat house prank gone awry. That’s Elon Musk. A man so desperate for control that
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. He needs your tax dollars, your personal data, and your attention just to feel like he’s a man.

Musk isn’t running the world, he’s having a midlife crisis. And nothing says deeply fragile billionaire quite like
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just to get richer,
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and then turning around and demanding that the government cut aid to starving children.

Not the $849.8 billion military budget
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, no, no, that’s fine. Instead, he’s crying about USAID, which makes up
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but has literally saved millions of lives -

let’s remind ourselves of the truth: Musk didn’t earn his billions, he lucked into them. His entire fortune is built on
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. And now, like a guy who won’t stop bragging about being self-made while his daddy quietly covers his rent, he’s decided that the real problem with government spending isn’t corporate welfare for billionaires like him, it’s that too many African children are surviving infancy. Brave!

Strong men protect the vulnerable. They build, they defend, they take responsibility. Weak men hoard power, steal from the public, and blame the poor for their own inadequacies. Musk wants to be seen as strong, but nothing about him is. There is no strength in a man who needs government contracts to survive but cries about government spending when it helps anyone else. There is no power in a man who rigs the system in his favor and still acts like a victim. There is no dominance in a man so deeply insecure that, even with more money than any human should have, uses his time to take it away from starving children.
 

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created under the guise of eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in federal spending. But, like many of Musk's grand pitches - Hyperloops, Mars colonization, Tesla robots, robotaxis, self-driving cars - DOGE is just another empty promise from one of the world's most practiced conmen.

In its supposed "savings" report, DOGE claimed to have
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- a small portion of of which came from
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. The rest? There aren't any real savings. All DOGE did was cancel government contracts. That's like deciding to stop paying your bills and mortgage to cover your credit card debt, only to realize your so-called "savings" won't even cover a single interest payment.

A common theme in the DOGE data is the cancellation of subscription-based services that federal congressional and public affairs offices rely on, such as newspapers with paywalls, Beltway tipsheets, and telephone and email directory systems. This move will only make the government less efficient and force those in these roles to spend more time tracking down news and contact information essential to their work. These contracts were all approved by the agencies with money allocated by Congress, who seems to have conceded more of their authority to Musk every day.

Worse, many of the canceled contracts were awarded to disabled and veteran-owned small businesses. Musk and Trump seem to have a particular knack for shortchanging veterans - even those who don't rely on care from the Department of Veterans Affairs or work for the federal government.
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, provided training for federal agencies. It was awarded to a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Minority-Owned Business Enterprise specializing in organizational and management consulting.

The contract, according to federal records, was for "DEIA program and project management support services" - a sin in Washington amid Trump's all-out war on diversity programs. The company, founded in 2008 by Marine Corps veteran Chris Gonzalez, now faces uncertainty due to these cuts.

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by DOGE and belonged to MIRACORP, INC., an all-woman, disabled veteran-owned business based in Mesa, Arizona. The company provides project management assistance for federal agencies - in this case, for the Green Proving Ground program, which reportedly helped the government
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on energy costs each year.

By ending this contract on a program that helped cut costs, you are supposed to believe the fiction that the government is actually saving money. These so-called DOGE "savings" do add up - at the expense of veterans.

The largest group affected by DOGE's cuts at the VA has naturally been veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.

It should come as no that, amid DOGE's
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, Musk has
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of his SpaceX company to the FAA to "help make air travel safer."

With DOGE
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, we can expect even more veteran- and disabled veteran-owned businesses, along with government contractors that compete with Musk's companies, to be cut. The Department of Defense is also one of the largest employers of veterans in the nation. DOGE firings are expected to start Wednesday. If DOGE does "audits," like they did at
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, we can expect more chaos.

As part of its "savings," DOGE also canceled
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, including a $27,000 annual lease in a property in Las Cruces, New Mexico, that housed the Las Cruces Vet Center. Vet Centers are vital components of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, established after the Vietnam War to provide veterans with a space outside traditional government facilities, helping them avoid the stigma associated with federal institutions at the time. These centers provide life-saving counseling services for veterans and their families - I have personally witnessed their staff intervene to prevent veteran suicide attempts.

The DOGE site claims this Vet Center is being relocated to a federal building, with the nearest major facility being over three hours away in Albuquerque, New Mexico. But, there is no word on where this Vet Center has gone, if it ever reopens. The Vet Center will still pay rent - the funds will now go to the U.S. General Services Administration instead of a private landlord, redirecting money away from the local economy of Las Cruces. The result? A grand total of $0 in taxpayer savings.

With little understanding of how the federal government operates, DOGE's actions are only setting the stage for further harm, as they arbitrarily cancel additional facilities - and especially as they gain access to the largest federal funding source, the Pentagon.

In claiming it's produced billions in savings, DOGE has taken credit for canceling contracts that were already mostly paid - exaggerating savings by counting unobligated funds as if they were guaranteed future expenses.

In some cases, it has inflated savings numbers by orders of magnitude,
Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!
This isn't fiscal responsibility; it's an accounting gimmick designed to make the numbers sound good while veterans pay the price..

DOGE has uncovered no real waste or abuse - only contracts it could cancel to create the illusion of savings. The real cost falls on the veterans who rely on these services, the contracts that support them, and the businesses that employ them.
 

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among the 1,100-plus contracts purportedly canceled, POLITICO found:
  • Contracts that had not yet been awarded
  • Instances where a single pot of money is listed multiple times — tripling or quadrupling the amount of savings claimed
  • Purchase agreements that have no record of being canceled, but were instead stripped of language related to diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Contract savings identified by DOGE that do not match with records they refer to in the Federal Procurement Data System
  • Contracts where the underlying document is for an entirely different contract
 

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among the 1,100-plus contracts purportedly canceled, POLITICO found:
  • Contracts that had not yet been awarded
  • Instances where a single pot of money is listed multiple times — tripling or quadrupling the amount of savings claimed
  • Purchase agreements that have no record of being canceled, but were instead stripped of language related to diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Contract savings identified by DOGE that do not match with records they refer to in the Federal Procurement Data System
  • Contracts where the underlying document is for an entirely different contract
Just an FYI, Politico causes anguish in Ragey
 

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Nope….they’re obviously articles that have been published by reputable news organizations and fact checked

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I also post a lot of articles as proof of what’s happening here in the US…..you’ll find the news articles posted by Jack and others with the ability to recognize truth in media are intended to be informative……… I'm 100% certain he never intended anyone think he was the author or he would have removed the embedded links or NOT posted the title of the article where the information came from…. :eyeRoLL:
these news organizations have access to information not available to the general public and they’re sole purpose is to educate the public
 
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Nope….they’re obviously articles that have been published by reputable news organizations and fact checked

97hwdmu1.jpeg

I also post a lot of articles as proof of what’s happening here in the US…..you’ll find the news articles posted by Jack and others with the ability to recognize truth in media are intended to be informative……… I'm 100% certain he never intended anyone think he was the author or he would have removed the embedded links or NOT posted the title of the article where the information came from…. :eyeRoLL:
these news organizations have access to information not available to the general public and they’re sole purpose is to educate the public
Any time you see a headline with an article attached it's simply the text of the article. If I'm writing it, you can tell, but in politics I post the text of an article to start a discussion about it.

I've always done it that way and never claimed it was me writing it. What often happens when posting with "sources" is that morons attack the source as bias and really dont want to discuss the info within. Once burned, twice shy.

I thought that was obvious. This isn't a class or an assignment, its a discussion board.
 

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among the 1,100-plus contracts purportedly canceled, POLITICO found:
  • Contracts that had not yet been awarded
  • Instances where a single pot of money is listed multiple times — tripling or quadrupling the amount of savings claimed
  • Purchase agreements that have no record of being canceled, but were instead stripped of language related to diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Contract savings identified by DOGE that do not match with records they refer to in the Federal Procurement Data System
  • Contracts where the underlying document is for an entirely different contract

It's all smoke and mirrors.
 
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Yes, I heard him threaten.

I like that she said "See you in court."

Hell, fucking yeah. This is going to be the most litigious Presidency that's ever existed.
One of the largest newspaper in ME wrote a sweet editorial about it today:

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Any time you see a headline with an article attached it's simply the text of the article. If I'm writing it, you can tell, but in politics I post the text of an article to start a discussion about it.

I've always done it that way and never claimed it was me writing it. What often happens when posting with "sources" is that morons attack the source as bias and really dont want to discuss the info within. Once burned, twice shy.

I thought that was obvious. This isn't a class or an assignment, its a discussion board.

I try to always post the source, but that's more training from schooling and my professional years of work.

I don't think you were claiming the work as your own.
 

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It's all lies as well.

He said a couple things yesterday to the governor of Maine that he should be impeached for.
For What? Saying he'll see her in court and has pretty muchly deep-sixed any future political ambitions she might have had just to virtue signal on trannies?
 

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It's all lies as well.

He said a couple things yesterday to the governor of Maine that he should be impeached for.
There’s no way he could be impeached right now imo, until at least the midterms. We referred him for impeachment twice before and the spineless GOP in the senate gave him a get out of jail free card both times.
 
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I try to always post the source, but that's more training from schooling and my professional years of work.

I don't think you were claiming the work as your own.
Thank you. In college you had to post citations (in the correct form) or you failed your paper.
 
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For What? Saying he'll see her in court and has pretty muchly deep-sixed any future political ambitions she might have had just to virtue signal on trannies?
That's an odd distillation. What would you have done if either of your kids came out?
 

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Any time you see a headline with an article attached it's simply the text of the article. If I'm writing it, you can tell, but in politics I post the text of an article to start a discussion about it.

I've always done it that way and never claimed it was me writing it. What often happens when posting with "sources" is that morons attack the source as bias and really dont want to discuss the info within. Once burned, twice shy.

I thought that was obvious. This isn't a class or an assignment, it’s a discussion board.
it was obvious……to me at least :Happy5: