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I wish I had been logging all the data from the beginning... you can dump it in about 30 api calls. The raw unsorted data is archived here https://archive.md/api.doge.gov I still need to dig through it more and make some of my own charts

What a joke. The military industrial complex charges on. This is like cutting back on daily Starbucks while financing a BMW X7 on you way of cutting spending in a serious way

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100%

It's a one-time 150 Billion which while great... is ~ 7% of the 2 trillion dollar yearly deficit.

Make it make sense?

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pathetic

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We’re still talking about 155B$, that’s insane in any case, propaganda aside.

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It's all relative.

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Someone reads the Wall Street Journal

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I’d be curious to see a drill down

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I think it's more instructive to see where most of the money already goes. If Doge was actually serious about cutting US spending it would look in these areas. Anything else is just theater.

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Touching DoD is like touching high voltage live wires

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And yet, the federal workforce is terrified of Elon and his anti government crusade.

At least we’re getting that.

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It is fun to watch the bureaucrats squirm... I don't know if the negative externalities are worth it

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Considering we normally get nothing, I'll take it.

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You have to remember it will always be an uphill battle.
So it will take time for us to see the results.

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See results... of what?

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billions in fraud and abuse; 0 convictions

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