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To: i-node who wrote (1577992)	12/17/2025 2:55:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By Eric pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578738

DOGE could be costing taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year Fortune DOGE's mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone · Quantifying the cost of DOGE · Where are the losses coming from?

To: i-node who wrote (1577992)	12/17/2025 5:55:13 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578738

Inode, These were different contexts, and "two trillion" figure was specifically an *"in your wildest dreams"* sort of answer. No one at the time portrayed it as a "in your wildest dreams" sort of answer. It was portrayed as an honest goal. Doesn't matter. $2T, $1T, half a trillion, Musk didn't even come close to any of these goals. He only produced receipts for $63B in savings, and most of those cuts were political in nature. They were not examples of "fraud, waste, or abuse." Of course, YOU think anything "woke" automatically falls under the "fraud, waste, and abuse" category. Tenchusatsu