Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.Ydo6.AT9-D-kxHRTU&smid=bs-shareMusk’s absurd scheme to save the government a trillion dollars by slashing “waste, fraud and abuse” has been a failure. DOGE claims it’s saved $175 billion, but experts believe the real number is significantly lower. Meanwhile, according to the Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal work force, DOGE’s attacks on government personnel — its firings, re-hirings, use of paid administrative leave and all the associated lack of productivity — could cost the government upward of $135 billion this fiscal year, even before the price of defending DOGE’s actions in court. Musk’s rampage through the bureaucracy may not have created any savings at all, and if it did, they were negligible.