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0 pointsfinal_aeon2mo ago0 comments

DOGE was mostly about government efficiency and restructuring rather than actually proving vast fraud. What DOGE did accomplish is cutting a lot of politicized / ideologically driven spending.

Fraud is a serious crime and it is not just "political actions that I don't like." The Somalian fraud rings are actually fraud on a vast scale. So please stop defending actual fraud, which is supposed to not be a partisan issue

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ZeroGravitas2mo ago

Musk was still talking about Trillion dollar government fraud on Twitter a few days ago.

He repeatedly claimed fraud as part of DOGE. The 150 year olds claiming Social Security for example.

Just like now, he was bullshitting and didn't care that it wasn't true if it was useful to him.

His allies are pretty much on record saying that too, e.g. that firing staff increased government costs since the same expertise was contracted out at a higher rate, but that is considered a win for them. Which feels like fraud to me.

> DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/doge-did-not-fin...

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