DOGE Isn't Saving Money, So What's It Really Doing?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : And with spending up 10% since President Trump took office relative to the same period last year; the "one big beautiful bill" addressing taxes and spending currently working its way through Congress almost certain to increase the deficit; and a tariff-induced, tax-revenue-reducing recession perhaps on the horizon, I guess it's not impossible that deficit will rise by $2 trillion.
46% : By early January, a couple of weeks before President Donald Trump returned to the White House and appointed Musk head of the newly created not-quite-department dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, he was calling $2 trillion "the best-case outcome" and saying "we've got a good shot" at getting $1 trillion in cuts.
41% : But with Musk's time as a "special government employee" due to end this month, and the Partnership for Public Service estimating that the cost in lost productivity, rehiring of fired workers and other side effects of his chaotic approach will top $135 billion this year, it does seem fair to conclude that the direct annual savings from DOGE's efforts will be less than $150 billion, which amounts to about 2% of federal spending.

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