Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s data shows.
  •  Jode   ( @Jode@midwest.social ) English
    27•1 month ago

    “… And will in fact cost more money in the long term when it’s discovered that whatever it was that was canceled, was in fact necessary, and now runs at a premium due to fucking around.”

  •  rocket_dragon   ( @rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
    11•1 month ago

    What I’ve been reinforcing to the conservatives in my life, with reasonable success, is that “tax payer savings” right now is like a mail-in-rebate we haven’t gotten yet. Say you paid $1000 for a new TV with a $200 MIR. You paid full price, no matter what the MIR sticker is, you haven’t saved the $200 until the $200 is back in your wallet. If you never get the MIR, you saved nothing.

    If we’re still playing full price for taxes, and we are, our taxpayer savings is ZERO no matter what DOGE says.

    Obviously missing the big picture but at least I’m getting them riled up against the current administration, and it’s been easier than I thought it would be.

  •  NigelFrobisher   ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 
    1•1 month ago

    This new regime is like a stack of children in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult so they can buy fireworks. Faced with an array of Chesterton’s Fences between them and infinity sweets, they tear down all the fences. Why do we have to pay all these people? Booooring. What are all these stupid regulations for? Tear them up! No way these things might just exist to protect the government and country from much bigger costs later.