President Trump and Eileon Musk promised taxpayers, and perhaps even “Dog Distribution“Check their mail boxes, when the Ministry of Government Efficiency was allowed Long on the federal government. Now, as it is He is preparing to back down from his presidential mission To reduce bureaucratic fats, Mr. Musk said without providing details that are likely to provide taxpayers only $ 150 billion.
This is about 15 percent of a trillion dollars who pledged to save, less than 8 percent of $ 2 trillion of savings originally promised and part of about $ 7 trillion spent by the federal government in the fiscal year 2024.
the Errors and fatigue Dog’s basic claims for savings are well documented. The least famous is the costs that Mr. Musk incurred by taking it What Mr. Trump called “Al -Ahmad” To the government and the resulting releases, an agency insurance and Building episodes This mostly ended in court.
Public service partnership, a non -profit organization that studies the federal workforce, used budget numbers to produce an approximate estimate that firefighting, re -inflammation, productivity loss and paid leave for thousands of workers will cost 135 billion dollars in this fiscal year. In the internal revenue service, the immigration that depends on DOGE will cost 22,000 employees about $ 8.5 billion of revenue in 2026 alone, According to the numbers From the budget laboratory at Yale University. The total number of departure is expected to reach 32,000.
None of these estimates include the cost of taxpayers to defend Doug’s movements in court. About 200 Judicial cases and appeal related Mr. Trump’s agenda, at least 30 involves in the department.
“It is not only the increase in the money that he saved significantly, but rather does not represent the largest waste that he creates.” “It has caused these costs to the American people, who will pay them for many years to come.”
Mr. Stier and other experts in the federal workforce said he should not be this way. The former federal and government closure of Mr. Musk presented a legal games book to reduce federal workforce, The goal that most Americans support. But Mr. Musk chose Lighting-LGHed styles and the similar Blunt-Forme that he used to significantly reduce Twitter after acquiring the company in 2022.
“The law is clear,” said Jerry Bukhols, who dealt with more than three decades in public service. “They can do all the things they are currently doing, but they cannot do the way they do. They can either start again and do this correctly, or they can be in court forever.”
Harrison motivated.
He said: “It is important to realize that not doing anything also has a cost, and these alleged experts and groups are comfortably absent when considering the costs of not doing anything.”
He said to the Tax Authority, “All pieces have been made to make the government more efficient and not to be a burden on the American people or cut any critical resources or programs they depend on,” he said.
Based on The latest information availableDiscounts in Doug 12 percent targeted at least from 2.4 million civilian employees in the Federal Labor Force. But there is a wide gap between the planned cuts of Dog and the number of people who already leave.
The acquisitions and launch operations initially reduced about 100,000 workers – less than people who usually retire in one year, according to what he said Personnel Management Office numbers. At least a quarter of these 100,000 workers were renewed with full wages, most of them after the judges had eliminated that the shooting was illegal and some of them after Mr. Musk said that Dogs had dismissed the workers “wrongly”. Nuclear weapons protectionAir safety guarantee and Flu -influenza And Ebola.
When the judges ordered the appointment of workers, the government put them on a paid vacation, which means that taxpayers will receive the cost of re -setting them, as well as the salaries they collected while staying at home.
Demobilization 10,000 employees in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services Wiping the entire team in the centers of diseases control and prevention of fighting HIV all over the world. In an interview, two public health doctors said they were neglected because the team’s work was always supported by the two parties. They were facing the end on June 2 and said they wanted to return to work, but they did not know who would make their case.
Master Musk Methods They threw the country Another effort by an American president to reduce the federal bureaucracy, as most Americans say they want. in City halls in Congress and InterviewsEven Trump’s voters said they were tired of the suffering of Mr. Musk. in This month has been released58 percent of those surveyed said they refused how Mr. Musk was dealing with Doug’s work, and 60 % refused to Mr. Musk himself.
“We will make mistakes”
A week after the inauguration of Mr. Trump, the Personnel Management Office is now sent A reputable e -mail for more than two million federal workers With the topic line “Thorn on the way”. They were told that they could resign and be salaries during the month of September, or the risk of the road is dismissed.
The email ignited anger and confusion about whether Doug has the legal authority to pay workers during September. Federal employee unions veto, but judge The program was allowed to move forward. About 75,000 people, or about three percent, left. If the administration does not decline from its width, it will pay its salaries in the fall.
The comprehensive acquisition did not prefer the performance of high -ranking artists and does not distinguish the decisive jobs from non -basic jobs, and the practices that directed the leave during the last government closure. Consequently, the administration ended in an attempt to reflect the exit of people in vital roles.
“We will make mistakes”, Mr. Musk Members of the Council of Ministers said In February. After being proud of the United States Agency for International Development “in wooden pieces”, A step that the judge found later to the constitutionMr. Musk discovered that “one of the things that I have mistakenly canceled for a short time is the prevention of Ebola.” But his claim that he quickly repaired the damage It was inaccurate.
Separately, a New York Times investigation The discounts in the National Nuclear Security Administration show the effect of acquisitions on the efforts to protect and modernize the nuclear weapons of the nation. Of more than 130 people who were separated or accepted by Doug’s call, it was at least 27 engineers, 13 analysts in the program or project, 12 program managers or projects, and five physicists or scientists.
Four of these employees were specialists dealing with the safe transport of nuclear materials, and the work of half a scale in the agency unit that builds reactors for nuclear submarines.
“These are difficult jobs that fill it, because people can earn a lot of money working in the factory or laboratory itself,” said Jel Hirobi, who led the National Nuclear Security Administration during the Biden administration.
Many people in the nuclear safety team found new jobs with government contractors who were overseeing him once. Throughout the government, STIRE resigned a non -proportional number of professionals in high demand by the private sector.
He said: “There are a lot of people who are the best in the chapter who are hunting them because they are moving them for the purpose.” “But it is easier for a person who has options to say:” This is crazy, I will not do it anymore, and go to another place. “
“Money deliberately lost”
In the middle of February, the employee management office targeted all 220,000 government test staff, who are newly or promoted new professionals who serve a two -year trial period with two years with Less number of workers’ protection. Among them is a cadre of cunning in technology who have been appointed at a large expense to replace a wave of retired Pommer. They cost and train them about $ 10,000 for a written factor to more than a million dollars for elite spy.
“This is the equivalent of the main baseball concession that launches all the players of the Smaller. “It is a large amount of money deliberately lost.”
About 24,000 employees were launched under observation via nearly 20 agencies by March 13, Matthew A federal judge spent Maryland The discounts were illegal and the agencies ordered the rehabilitation of workers, but the government resumed and continued legal quarrels. Under the law, the test staff cannot be expelled only for an issue, usually for poor performance, Judge James K. said. Bardar from the Federal Provincial Court of Maryland In a long ruling.
He ordered the government to remember the relevant workers, Incurred 7,600 from the Ministry of Treasury, 5700 in the Ministry of Agriculture and more than 3200 in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, according to court data. But the administration places them instead on a paid leave, where they collect annual salaries With an average of 106,000 dollars while Waiting for forgetfulness.
For each DOGE test worker, the government has lost thousands of dollars in employment, incentives employment, security permits and training, and investment that is usually recovered over years of service. In one case, an employee under observation with the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services received an increase in wages after re -it and set a paid leave.
Management Reducing about 400 monitoring workers in the Federal Aviation Administration After a multiple plane, including one in Washington in January that killed 67 people. Workers’ layoffs included maintenance mechanics and aviation safety.
Central Intelligence Agency He confirmed last month Some of the officers who have rented in the past two years have been called to a site far from the Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and have requested the delivery of their credentials to security employees. About 80 officers were left.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, Democrat at the Intelligence Committee, said he cost $ 400,000 to obtain a CIA recruiter through the security clearance and specialized training.
Pain attachment
Dramators about shooting, including The appearance of Mr. Musk In a conservative political conference Wearing the chain of sawThey also suggest that pain on the bureaucracy that Mr. Trump considers a “deep state”.
This was a target for federal employees set by Russell T. Vogue, who is now leading the management and budget office. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them not to want to go to work, because they are increasingly seen as the bad guys,” Mr. Vogue said in a conservative gathering in 2023.
Ms. Bukhols and Mr. Steer emphasize that the government is really ineffective and needs reform. But by “torturing people with joy,” Mrs. Bukhols, Dog, said that the government’s ability to recruit talented young workers to lead the modernization.
“This country has historically an independent public service that attracts people focusing on service to the Americans,” said Ms. Bochhols. “But this administration appreciates the type of service that it gets from the political appointed, who work with the president.”
Reports previously contributed Eileen Sullivanand Andrew Dahrinand Sharon Lavanierand Minho Kimand Jolly Tateand Zach montage and Adam Goldman From Washington. Kitty Bennett The research contributed.
