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Summary

Elon Musk’s DOGE, meant to cut waste, is under fire for high taxpayer-funded salaries.

DOGE staffers like Jeremy Lewin ($167K), Kyle Schutt ($195K), and Nate Cavanaugh ($120K) earn six figures, contradicting Musk’s claim that compensation is “zero.”

Despite DOGE boasting billions in savings, reports show exaggerations and corrections. The agency’s budget has hit $40 million, but funding sources remain unclear.

While DOGE was promised to be “maximum transparent,” spending details remain undisclosed, raising concerns about its true effectiveness.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. I would have to be paid waaaayyy better to commit treason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Same, but the difference is that we're not stupid kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

yeah. if the average age of your soldiers is like 35 the military would have a rather hard time.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

If these cunts had any real tech skills they’d be making bank in industry. Fucking morons.

[–] hddsx 25 points 12 hours ago

They have enough skill to be dangerous, not enough skill to work on actual products.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago

They have access to priceless, otherwise unobtainable, data with no ethics. They'll unfortunately get paid one way or another.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

No skills needed to break shit and misread COBOL.

Thats the point.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Thats over 300k in just salaries for 3 twenty something's with no knowledge at all.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Don't undersell it as "over 300k" when it's a whopping 482k!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Counting recruitment, healthcare, etc you’re over half a million for some high schoolers to fuck over the VA.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago

It was pretty funny at that town hall when that woman said that fElon gets paid millions a day from We The People after the GOP bot tried that "fElon is working for free, you guyzzzz!" garbage.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 13 hours ago

Saving money isn't going to happen.

The government will pay more to a company that will pay contractors less.

All the bullshit about privatization streamlining anything is such a fucking joke.

It's just adding useless middle men who take a cut, but that's how our economy is set up. Those middle men do zero work and make the most money. And they're gonna do everything they can to keep it that way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not about waste though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, wish the news would say 'claims is about waste' instead of treating it as true.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

If the filthy rich know anything, it's that quashing one's personal morals takes money.