This is a list of some of Musk's cuts in the agency budget: These cuts to children’s programs include: $860.1 million for Maternal and Child Health $665.7 million in the Economic Support Fund which includes basic education and clean water & sanitation which protects children from infectious disease $664.4 million in Development Assistance $496.6 million for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) $361.7 million for fighting Malaria $220.3 million for Global Health Security $119.7 million for Nutrition $115.7 million for International Disaster Assistance $90.5 million for fighting Tuberculosis $36.0 million for fighting Neglected Tropical Diseases $31.5 million for Vulnerable Children Fact Sheet: USAID cuts total $4 billion for children, tens of thousands of lives | First Focus on Children By the way I clicked on a link to the page with the actual USAID budget and it was blank. Musk's DOGE boys in action. From another article on the subject of USAID waste responding to the Musk/Trump list abuses a number of which have been posted on this board. It is worth clarifying that none of the cases listed amount to ‘abuse’ –or at least the release presents no evidence that the rules weren’t followed, and the spending wasn’t authorized. But give the White House team the benefit of the doubt, and add up all of the spending they list: it comes to about $120 million over a period of about two decades. That’s $6 million a year in arguable expenditures. Or about 0.01 percent of USAID’s budget. This seems rather weak grounds for shutting down an agency. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket family have a failure rate of 0.6 percent—sixty times as high—and nobody’s calling for that program to be abandoned. The amount that the Department of Defense has spent on weapons systems that haven’t delivered as planned is in the tens of billions—or hundreds of times the “waste and abuse” in aid suggested by the White House. It is a comparatively reasonable reaction that Secretary of Defense is suspending new contracts, but no Pentagon stop-work order has been issued on existing contracts, nor is newly appointed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shutting down the Pentagon and sending troops home. https://www.cgdev.org/blog/white-house-demonstrates-usaids-efficiency
Agreed. This is marketing for DOGE and the head of DOGE’s X site. I also agree with most of the removing of DEI funding and (1000% agree with the removing of any funding for Trans issues). But yes, there are more important things that aren’t mentioned on here the don’t get removed and things that get added (like Space X grants). When I see a plan to actually make the government more efficient through healthcare or defense spending improvement initiatives, I’ll care. The government has spent more money in the time it made to post about those tiny changes and link it to a new URL.
Not quite accurate: No, I do not although that story is a distortion of the facts. While some of the USAID funds ended up being used for the cultivation of poppies that was never their intended purpose. In fact the funds were part of a program intended to discourage Afghan farmers for cultivating opium poppies. The claim that USAID funded opium poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan is being spread manipulatively. In reality, the claim is based on a 2018 report, which states that the agency funded irrigation systems, farming equipment, and fertilizers intended for agricultural programs aimed at discouraging farmers and drug traders from cultivating and trafficking opium. However, the program did not achieve the desired results, and drug traffickers later used the funded resources for opium cultivation. Information About USAID Funding Opium Production in Afghanistan Is Spread Manipulatively
... I mean, let's face it, this isn't the type of mistake a DEI Indian employee would make. LOL... what a clown. Elon Musk's DOGE.gov website can apparently be edited by anyone | Mashable
What an utter joke of an administration. Helicopters crashing, Carriers crashing, website crashing… next up is the economy crashing. About time for a right-winger to start a thread on protest songs or perhaps a Hunter Biden thread?
Adding the qualifier that these links are from 2023, Musk and DOGE will improve the operation of the Federal government the same way that he improved Twitter after he acquired the social media platform. The Twitter website always inevitably crashes regularly whenever used for some time Twitter crashes during Ron DeSantis US presidential run announcement
Don’t worry, they’re all telling us that this is what they voted for and they “couldn’t be happier” with how this administration has started off when we know deep down they just can’t admit that they were duped and lied to by the orange con man yet again.
So DOGE, which gained unfettered access to all of our personal data, can't even run a secure website? Awesome.
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it. DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to purportedly root out waste in the federal government, launched its website on Wednesday night with a feature allowing users to “trace your tax dollars through the bureaucracy.” People can navigate through all federal agencies and offices for details about their head counts, budgets and average ages of employees.
Doge was forced to put that page back up... so naturally they put it up in a way that it would get bullDOGEd by malevolent hackers. It's what they knew would happen. Dems too dense to figure that out? Or, just they do not care. But If they REALLY wanted to secure it, I'm quite sure it would be secured.
You probably know this already but there is a certain hacker group that has already talked about how all of these cuts of the government have left many systems vulnerable. This is only beginning
Please. Please. Continue to call Elon an idiot and thou dost continue to protest too much. This is exactly how trump got elected in the first place. You are so blinded you don’t realize you are doing PR work for him. Please continue. I’d even say ramp it up a notch.
