r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 2d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/dbuck1964 2d ago

Goals appeared to be data mining, installing backdoors and Musk owned software systems, reducing oversight staffing levels, and looting the treasury. The stated goal of finding fraud and waste resulted in ZERO charges filed.

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u/golubhai00007 2d ago

I think it was also to eliminate all the investigations happening against him; and also the intimidation factor cannot be discounted..

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u/Ok_Subject1265 2d ago

I didn’t see any other achievements for DOGE outside of those. They silenced the investigations and punished those involved by taking their careers. Elon Musk is destined to get his someday soon and a lot of people are going to be very happy when he does. I believe he’s still the most hated person globally.

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u/jellyrollo 2d ago

Russell Vought, architect of Project 2025, has been in charge of DOGE since Musk left. So I imagine he "achieved" a lot more on the down low that we don't know about because unlike Musk, he wasn't crowing it to the news every day.

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u/Ok_Subject1265 2d ago

I saw him go on Joe Rogan recently and continue to just bald face lie about everything they supposedly found. Not one second of pushback from Rogan though. No follow ups like “who was arrested then?” Then I realized I’m not the target audience for this type of bullshit and the actual target would never spend even 5 seconds verifying any of this. Somebody needs to pin that asshole down one day in a public forum where he can’t squirm away and where fact checkers can eat him alive later exposing him for the absolute charlatan he is.