DOGE is a dog [updated]

"We're less than 100 days into billionaire Elon Musk's grand experiment of trying to shave trillions of dollars from the United States government's budget, [a]nd judging by the absolute chaos that has unfurled, his Department of Government Efficiency experiment has been nothing short of a disaster.

"Besides finding little in terms of actual 'waste and fraud' and massively cutting his ambitions down from $2 trillion to a mere $150 billion earlier this month, Musk's actions have had little to show except endless drama and suffering. ...

"Even whether DOGE [pron. Doggy] is saving the government any money at all remains dubious. Last month, the Treasury Department and IRS officials predicted a decrease of more than ten percent in tax receipts, which would amount to more than $500 billion in lost revenue, as the Washington Post reported at the time.

"'DOGE is not a serious exercise,' Manhattan Institute fellow Jessica Riedl told Reuters, estimating that DOGE had only saved $5 billion to date and predicting that Musk's efforts could ultimately cost the government more than it saves."

~ Victor Tangerman from his article  'Elon Musk's DOGE Has Been a Dismal Failure: "DOGE is not a serious exercise."'