A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were “relatively nonexistent” during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR’s Juana Summers.
Lavingia was a successful software developer and the founder of Gumroad, a platform for online sales, when he joined DOGE in March. Lavingia said he had previously sought to work for the U.S. Digital Service, the technology unit that was renamed and restructured by the Trump administration. He told NPR that he just wanted to make government websites easier for citizens to use and didn’t really care which presidential administration he was working for, despite protests from his friends and family.
And DOGE just created more waste because ALL those federal workers fired, are still getting paid without actually performing any work. They are still getting paid until September. When they most likely will sue again. So the actual savings were ZERO. Idiots always forget you can get sued in the US and DOGE AI equation didn’t take into account the ton of lawsuits it created.
This comment implies DOGE is for what it says it’s for.
DOGE is a political purge and fiscal responsibility is its smokescreen.