February 15, 2025
DOGE claims $180 billion in savings as analysts find spending actually increased
DOGE claims $180 billion saved while federal spending rises 5% and 270,000 workers lose jobs
🤝Civic Action🏛️Government💰Economy
DOGE claimed $180 billion in savings on its wall of receipts
PolitiFact, WSJ, NYT, and AEI found the savings claims were flawed
Musk promised $2 trillion cuts, then $1 trillion, then $150 billion
Education Department saw $17 billion decrease with nearly half staff cut
USAID lost 90% of contracts and spending fell by one-third
April 2025 federal spending was $594 billion, up 5% from April 2024
270,000+ federal workers lost jobs - largest peacetime reduction on record
🤝Civic Action🏛️Government💰Economy
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An AP-NORC poll found what share of Americans **disapproved** of the broad agency cuts two weeks after they began?
Q2
Which cabinet-level department announced almost **half** its staff would be laid off under DOGE directives?
Q3
Reuters estimated Education’s spending alone would drop by roughly how much in FY 2025 after DOGE cuts?
Q4
Roughly how many federal jobs had DOGE cut by mid-February 2025, according to Reuters tracking?
Q5
Which cloud-based “centralized payment system” did Trump’s February 26 EO task DOGE with rolling out?
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Elon Musk
Head of DOGE claiming massive savings
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Entity making spending cut claims
Cato Institute
Libertarian think tank that found spending actually increased
PolitiFact
Fact-checker that found savings claims flawed
American Enterprise Institute
Conservative think tank that questioned DOGE math