The numbers are present, and the so -called government efficiency (DOGE) collapses in Elon Musk. The daily reports of the US Treasury indicate that despite the huge layoffs of Elon and budget discounts, the federal government spends money faster than before.
Since January 21, 2025, when Donald Trump took office for a period of his second term and put Elon responsible for discounts in the federal budget, the government spent more than it was during the same periods in 2023 and 2024. Adaptation to inflation barely changes the image – the expansion is still higher than last year.
Dog was supposed to drop government waste, close the expensive agencies, and end reckless spending. But after weeks of discounts, cancellation of contracts, and chaos, financially to the government Reports No actual savings appear. Illon promised that his strategy would reduce spending deeper than Margaret Thatcher’s policies in the 1980s, but the reality tells a different story. Nothing has changed – except for the people who lost their jobs.
Dog discounts do not reduce government spending
The biggest simple Dog problem: it cuts the wrong places. The financial collapses of the Ministry of Treasury show that parts of the budget can actually touch it not much. In 2022, the total salaries of civilian government employees were only 4 % of federal spending. Adding in active military salaries only raised to 7 %. Even if Dog launches each government worker, the government will continue to spend more than 90 % of its budget.
Government contracts are not the issue either. In 2023, non -defensive agency contracts made up 5 % of federal spending, and with the inclusion of the Ministry of Defense, it was 12 %. The ELON team has reduced many contracts, but these cuts barely start in public spending.
Real money? Merit and debt interest programs. Social security spending, medical care, and medicaid is most of the budget, and the benefit of national debt grows every year. But Dog does not control any of that. ELON can shoot the largest possible number of employees and close the largest possible number of agencies – the money will continue to spend.
The figures also show that the estimated spending, which once represented three -quarters of the federal budget in the 1960s, has now reduced slightly more than a quarter. The part that actually controls – unpredictable estimated spending – was only 14.9 % of total spending in 2023. Even if Elon canceled everything that Doge was targeting, the federal budget would remain huge.
Elon faces the same problem that David Stokman faced in the Reagan administration. Stockman cut off the real non -defensive estimated spending by 18 % in three years, but it did not prevent the government from spending more in general. This is because defensive spending grew, and the entitlement programs remained not touched today.
Dog causes chaos, not efficiency
Since its launch, Dog has moved quickly, but not effectively. The Illon administration registered thousands, closed the agencies, and the contracts were reduced faster than anyone expected. But instead of improving efficiency, the strategy led to reverse results.
The first round of workers’ demobilization struck the test staff first, which led to the removal of the latest upgraded employees and employees – the people who were supposed to help modernize government operations. Dog had to walk in this decision again.
The Consumer Financial Protection Office (CFPB) was dismantled, but then it was partially restored when banks realized that they needed to praise the regulations.
The IRS service has witnessed significant cuts, which contradict the Reagan administration’s strategy to increase the tax authority’s financing to increase the application of taxes. The result was less than money was collected and a greater deficit for America.
Even Dog’s financial reports are unreliable. The administration claims that it provides billions of dollars, but independent financial experts continue to find great differences. Instead of clarifying the numbers, Doug made it difficult to verify federal spending data at all.
While the ELON leadership team includes the names of the technology industry like Joe Gebbia, co -founder of Airbnb and Steve Davis, a long -term business partner, none of them has government experience. Business administration is not the same government administration. The United States budget is not an emerging company that can be improved by the demobilization of workers and automation.
The biggest problem may be Elon itself. The man who built Tesla and Spacex is the same as the one who spends hours of publication on X (previously Twitter). There is a difference between Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman, and Elonelon, a account that publishes unended by politics and encryption. The federal government handed the real power to the second.
Santi Ruiz, a policy researcher at the Progress Institute, summarized the situation: “Everyone who now resides Dog is similar to the blind man who feels different parts of the elephant.” No one can see the full picture yet. But the parts we can see do not look good.
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