The 'disturbing' ways Elon Musk's DOGE tried to save money for the US government. | The News Agents

What they would do is go into an agency, take a picture in Veterans Affairs, and they'd say, oh, they're spending $200 billion a year on veterans there. And there were 90,000 contracts. They didn't go through each one. They'd get the file, the contract file, and they'd just start plugging in keywords like gender, bias, trans, woman. And if those words were in the title of the grant, they'd just cut the grant. And so they were doing things like that. The way they cut the workforce, that in a way is the most disturbing. I mean, the grant stuff is preposterous. You had total freedom to find examples of horrible government spending to get rid of it. And you say you're going to find $2 trillion of it. You actually found about $4 billion of it. Well, I mean, you should illustrate this, don't you? Because you talk about the character of Sahil Lavigne. Yeah. A software engineer. He's one of the muscle allies. He's brought in. He goes to work for Doge in the department you've identified. Yeah, he goes and shows up at the Veterans Administration. Because, actually, they spend a load of money on DVAs at the Department of Federal Government. Because it gives lots of veterans. Yeah, lots of veterans, health care, all those kinds of things. And then he lasts 55 days. He was the only one I could find in DOGE who went in with a spirit of curiosity rather than contempt. And he got there, and he saw someone who had gotten there before him and who had the file and was cutting these contracts. And the guy looks up and says, thank God you're here because I don't know what I'm doing. And this is, I don't know if we should be doing this. And so he walks around and learns. He starts asking questions. And somewhere in the middle of it all, he gets a call from a reporter from Fast Company Magazine. And he makes the mistake of answering the call. And he gets quoted saying, you know, the government's not quite as inefficient as I thought it was. And a lot of these people really like their jobs and they're doing a good job. And their mission. I thought it was fine. You could say or do almost anything in DOGE and not get fired. You could have your history of sexual assault could be exposed. Like you could retweet white nationalist rantings. They found guys in DOGE who just made up their college experience on their CV. And in each case, the wagon was circled. The president ended up with press secretary. J.D. Vance intervened to keep these people. But if you said the government's not quite as inefficient as I thought it was, You were out of it. So he got fired.